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Copyright N" 

COPVHICIIT llKPDSrr. 



THE MEN OF NEW YORK 



A COLLECTION OF BIOGRAPHIES 
AND PORTRAITS OF CITIZENS OF 
THE EiWPlRE STATE PROMINENT IN 
BUSINESS, PROFESSIONAL. SOCIAL. 
AND POLITICAL LIFE DURING THE 
LAST DECADE OF THE NINETEENTH 
CENTURY. 



Vol. 1 



BUFFALO, N. V. 

CEO. E. MATTHl.WS & CO. 

1898. 



fi M.».r ] p ipQP I 
TWO COPIES RECEIVED. 



COPYRIGHT, 1898, 

1)Y 

GEO. E. MATTHEWS & CO. 



29359 



ENGRAVED, PRINTED AND BOUND AT THE 
COMPLETE ART-1'RINTINO WORKS OF 

THE MATTHEWS-NORTHRUP CO., 
BUFI-ALO, N. Y. 






PREFACE 



\ 



^ I ^O KNOW the men of a time is the first ie(iuisitc to an undei- 
-'- standinij- of the time itself. Words alone ean tell but half tiie 
stor). No man is more than half comprehended I))- those who iiave 
never seen him. History becomes comprehensible to even a shii^^s^ish 
imaj^ination when a visit is paid to a _i;rcat portrait collection like that 
at Hampton Court or The Ha;^ue. Then the name that has been a mere 
abstraction on the printed paj^e, takes a new life as the stutlcnt j^azes 
into the xer)- features of the statesman or the warrior; and feels that in 
his time there was a li\injj; man, with blood as warm and mind as keen 
as has the frientl by his side to-day. One j)ortrait b\- itself cannot brinj.,^ 
out this feelini; of the integrity anil continuity of humanity; but a 
collection of the contemporaries of an\ character makes his environment 
realizal)le, and therefore his personalit\- more com|)rehensible. 

The comjjilers of this collection of portraits and bioi^raphies have 
not ileluded themselves into the belief that lhe\- were makini; history. 
They know that much of bio^frai)h\ is but the raw material upon which 
history is foumled, and that photoj^rajihic portraiture is but one of the 
humbler branches of art; but they have felt that there was room and 
need for the preservation of some record ol the men who were a t;reat 
part of the life of a i,Meat state in these last years of a j;reat century. 

The labor has been lonj^er and more ent^rossing tlian anyone 
anticipateil when it be^an, but the result will, they trust, meet the 
approval of even the hii^hest expectations. No effort has been spared 
to obtain the nicest complete and accurate information concerning each 



PREFA CE 

subject of a biography ; and the portraits have been made with the 
greatest care from photographs in the majority of cases taken especially 
for the work. 

The conditions inseparable from printing in parts have made it 
impossible to preserve the alphabetical arrangement throughout the two 
volumes ; but each volume will be found to have a separate index, and 
in the second volume will be found a synoptical index of the entire 
work. In this index is given an outline of the biography of each subject, 
and also the occurrences since the original publication of the biography. 
As these biographies were written and published continuously during the 
years 1896 and 1897, this outline has been found needful in bringing 
the information up to the beginning of 1898. 

In the first volume are included the biographies of citizens living 
in 1896 and 1897 in the western section of this state. The second 
volume is divided into several sections covering the rest of the state, 
and also contains the biographies of prominent citizens who died shortly 
before the work was undertaken. The synoptical index, also, will be 
found in this volume. 

The compilers and publishers submit the work to the consideration 
of their friends and the public with the sincere belief that, though far 
from perfect, it will be found to be of permanent value, and by far 
the most monumental work of the kind ever undertaken. Certainly no 
expense has been spared to make it worthy of preservation. 




INDEX OF SUBJECTS IN Vol. I 



ABEI.I,. C. LEE, 
ADAMS, S. CAKV, 
ALEXANDER, D. S., 
ALLEN, JAMES A., . 
ALTMAN, IIENKV, . . 
AITLEVAKD, EDWAUD. . 
ASM LEV, EL(;ENE M , 
ATKLNS, KDI'.EKT V . 
ALSTLN, (AMES K.. . 
liAHfoCK, JEROME. 
ItALL, CHARLES A., 
liALTZ, GE()R(;E, . . . 

UANTA, ROI.LIN I 

liARNES, ALERED J , . 
HARNUM, SIEI'IIEN ().. . 
|{ARIIIOL(>Mi:\V, AliRAM. 
BARILETT. ElUENE M . 
HARTLETI, ERANK L . 
BECKER, ALCIST. 
BECKER, I'llILir, 
BECKER, TR Ai A' C . 
BEDELL, (iSSLNN. . 
BENNEIT, EDWARD. 
BENNETT, LEWIS | . 
BERRICK, ( IL\RI.En 
BKKEnRD, R, IL, . 

BiN(;iL\M, (;eorce. 

BIRCE, M. II 

BISHOP. I IIARI.ES E.. . 
BISSEI.L, IIEKIiERT I'., 
BISSELL, WILSON S., . 
BI.ASDELL, IIEM.VN M , 

Bi.EisTEiN, (;i:oR(.i:. . 

Bl.oCIIER. lollN. . 
liooKST.W i'-.R. WII MAM. 
BRADISH, WILLIAM II . 
BRENDEL, IIENRV W . 
BRKICS, AI.BERr II.. 
BRIC.liS, (;EoR(.E W.. . 
BKOADHE.M), Will I AM. 
BROWNELL, C.EoRi.E I . 
BRINDA(;E, ERANK. 
BRLNN. CHARLES A . 
BRCSII, IIAKI..\N W . 
UKVANT, |i>IIN C . 





I^^^■.^, 






Pam. 


. iu.fr.ii,.. 


U'.i 


BLNTINO, TIIOMA.S I 


I lamburK, 


9.1 


•• 


IH'.I 


CAMPBELL, JAMES A., . . 


. Buffalo, . . 


321 


■• 


IT 


CAKV, CHARLES S 


. Olcan, . . . 


'.•4 




l-.HI 


CAKV, En;ENE. . . 


Ni.iuara Ealls. 


4:i:) 


, . 


:!44 


CASE, jASON 1). . . 


I'raiiklinvillc. 


117 


J.niiie-siown, 


177 


CHALSiERS, JAME.S, 


Williams\ illi> 


2112 


Lock|M)rl, . 


4M 


CHESTER, CARL T 


Buffalo, 


I.i4 


Buflalii, . . 


AM 


CLARK, EDWARD 


" 


iii;i 


. . 


241 


CLARK, JOSEPHIS II., . . 


lameslown, . 


IIH 


Jamcstimn, . 


li;i 


CLARK, Nn RON 11. , 


'r:,nT;,l,,, 


VM 


. Wcllsvillc, . 


114 


CLINTON, c;eor(;e. 




112 


Butlalo. . . 


no;! 


CLINTON, SPENCER. 




214 


■• 


::(»■> 


CLOSE, EMoRV P 




1 '.III 




144 


COATSWORTH. EDWARD E 




11'7 




144 


COBB, WII. LARD A , 


Ix>ck|mn. 


Ito 


. . 


•.'H(l 


COLE, IRVINC W,. . 


I'.uffnio. 


■■•M, 


. . 


4-2\ 


C()N(;DoN. JOSEPH M . 


Ci.waiiil.i. 


2;i;! 


( ikan, . . . 


iir. 


CONNER.s, WII LI,\M | . 


I'.iiO'al.., 


■2H:t 


Biiiralo, . . 


•-'42 


COOK. EDWARD L. ", 


•• 


r.ts 


. . 


I!il 


CoRI'.ETT. CHARLES II., 


Slicmmn. 


I7H 


. . 


IS 


COREV, ERED D 


Iluffal... 


:<iNi 


( iraiul Lslanil. 


422 


CORNELL, .S. Dol'C.I.AS, . 




25 


iliiHal... 


4 -.a 


CORNWEI.L. WILLIAM C. 




2il 


•• 


14.^ 


COTHRAN, C>E0R<;E W . 




1 im 




2.'<l 


COICH, ASA SIdNE. 


Ercilonia. 


ili» 




440 


CRAN(;i,E, ROLAND. 


Buffalo. 


:;iil 




441 


CRONIN. PAIRK K. . . 




14S 




24:! 


CROSTHWAITE, JOHN 1... 




424 




lit 


CUDDEUA( K, WM. II . 


•• 


200 




:i(t4 


CUNNEEN. lolIN. 


•• 


140 


. . 


20 


Cl'SHMAN. ( IIARI ES W . 




27 


N.irlli Ci.llin-. 


2«'.i 


DAKE. MOSES W . . . . 




:t22 


IliiHal... 


21 


DAMIi.\CH. WILLIAM C.. 




::2:i 


•• 


147 


DARK, THOMAS. 


•• 


201 


Diiiikirk. 


2'.HI 


DARRISON. JOHN 1. 


IxK-kiwirt. 


IHl 


BiilVal.,, 


l.-.l 


DAVIS, (lEoRiiE A . 


Buffalo, 


24f) 




22 


DEAN. BEN. S., 


lainrMtmn, . 


1'7 




Hi2 


DEPEW. tIAN.SoN. 


I'.iiffal 


l.VI 


< ircliard I'ark, 


4:!2 


DIEIIL, CfiNRAD, 




:!24 


Jaiiusliiwn. 


III', 


IM>RR,SAMCEI. C. . 




1.11 


New York. 


411 


DOClil.A.SS, <;IBS0N I . 




4. v. 


Buffalo, . 


;!:.:i 


Dol'CLASS, SILAS | . 


•• 


42-. 


. . 


42:1 


DoW, AI.IIERT (•..,' . 


l<an<loI|.li. 


121 


Niirtli Ti.iiaw.iiiil 


.. 4.-..! 


DRAKE, M.SRCrs M . 


linffal.,. 


MK] 


liiillalo. 


IM 


DlCKWriZ. I II . 




'.'."2 



DUDLEY, JOSEPH P.. . 
Dl'DI.EV. WESLEY C, 
IJL'KE, GRANT, . . . 
niNlSAR, CHARLES V. 
DUSEMJURV, JOHN I".., 
EGCERT, OLIVER J., . 
ELLSWOR TH, TIMOTHY E., 
ELY, WILLIAM CARYL, 
EMERSON, GEORGE D., 
EMERSON, HENRY P., 
EMERY, EDWARD K., . 
FAIRCHH.D, JOSEPH L., 
l-ARNHAM, CHARLES C. 
FENNER, MILTON M., 
FISHER, JEROME P., . 
FLAGLER, BENIAMIN, 
FLAGLER, THOMAS T., 
FLEISCHMANN, GUSTAV 
FLEMING, EDWIN, . . 
FOLSOM, BENJAMIN, . 
FORSYTH, JAMES G., . 
FOWLER, JOSEPH, . . 
FRANCHOT, N. V. v., . 
FROST, GEORGE IL, . 
FULLER, FRED'K A,, Jr., 
GASKILL, JOSHUA, . . 
GATCHELL, GEORGE S., 
GAVIN, JOSEPH E, . . 
GERST, PHILIP, . . 
GIBSON, BYRON D., . 
GILBERT, FRANK T., . 
GLENN, WILLIAM J., . 
GLUCK, JAMES ERASER, 
GOODYEAR, CHARLES W 
(JOODYEAR, FRANK II. 
GOULD, CHARLES A., . 
GRATTAN, WILLIAM S. 
GRAVES, JOHN C, . . 
GREEN, ELEAZER, . . 

GREEN, S. S. 

GREENE, W' ALTER I)., 
fJROSS, ROBERT J., . 
HAKUIT, ALBERT, . . 
IIALLER, FREDERICK, 
HAMMOND, CLARENCE W. 
HAMMOND, RICHARD, 
HAMMOND, WILLIAM W 
HARRINGTON, DEVILI.O W 
HART, LOUIS B.,. . . 
HA.STINGS, ARTHUR C 
HATCH, EDWARD W., 
HAWKS, EDWARD C, . 
IIAWI.EY, ELI AS S , . 
IIAWLEY, I.UCIAN, . . 
HAYES, CHARLES E., . 
HAZEL, JOHN R.. . . 

IIEAI.V, M. J 

HEFKORD, ROBERT R. 
HENDERSON, WILLIAM II. 
HEN(;ERER, WILLIAM, 
IIENNIG, HERMAN, . 
IIEQUEMBOURG, C. E.. 
IIICKEY, CHARLES, . 
HICKMAN, ARTHUR W 
mG(;iNS, FRANK W , 



INDEX < 


>■ /•( 




Pacie. 


Buffalo, . . . 


•28 


.. 


,325 


. Wellsvillc, 


122 


ButTalo, . . 


153 


I'ortville, . . 


123 


. Buffalo, . . 


202 


. Lockport, . . 


2114 


Niagara Falls, 


Si'.l 


. Bulfalo. . . 


SO'.) 


. 


.■50 


tt 


3:r2 


" 


■MS 


. 


31)5 


. Fredonia, . 


124 


. Jamestown, . 


385 


. Niagara Falls. 


125 


. Lockport. . 


100 


. Buffalo, . . 


154 


" 


31 


. 


240 


. 


32 


. 


204 


. Olean, . . . 


Kil 


. Buflalo, . . 


3;it> 


. Jamestown, 


434 


Lockport, . . 


102 


Buffalo, . . 


33 


. . 


205 


. . 


24f< 


East Aurora, . 


333 


Buffalo, . . 


200 


. Cuba, . . . 


IT'.I 


. Buffalo, . . 


34 


'. " '. . 


11 


. New York, . 


207 


. Buffalo, . . 


370 


. . 


3(i 


Jamestown, . 


104 


Buffalo, . . 


2(.W 


. , 


340 


Dunkirk, . . 


105 


lUiltalo, . . 


38 


. . 


354 


. . 


442 


. . 


420 


" 


30 


. . 


210 


. . 


211 


. Niagara F'alls, 


3K0 


. Buffalo, . . 


249 


. . 


155 


. . 


413 




2.".0 


. . 


212 


' " '. '. 


371 
372 


Randolph, 


120 


Buffalo, . . 


40 


ti 


427 


Dunkirk, . 


100 


Lockport, . 


18(» 


liuffalo, . . 


320 


Okan, . . . 


• 127 



Continiiril 



HILL, HENRY W. Buffalo, 

HILL. HERBERT M., . . 
KINGSTON, EDWARD J.. . 
IIODSON, DEVOE P., ! . 
HOOKER, WARREN P., . . . Fredonia. 

HOPKINS, NELSON K Buffalo, 

HORNADAY, WILLIAM T., . . New York 
HOTCIIKISS, WILLIAM II. , . . Buffalo, 
HOWARD, ETHAN H.. 
HOWARD, FREDERICK, . 
HOWARD, HENRY C, . . 
HOYT, WILLIAM B., . . 
HUBBELL, ALVIN A., . . 
HUBBELL, MARK S., . . 

HUFF, JAMES B., Tonawanda 

HUGHES, JOHN, Buffalo, 

HUGHSON, GEORGE IL, . 

HULL, JOHN M. 

HUI.TGREN, CARL OTTO, . . Jamestown 
HUMPHREY, JOHN ^V., Jr 
HUNTLEY, CHARLES R., . . Buffalo, 
HURD, HARVEY J.,. . . 
HUTCHINSON, E. IL, . . 

IRISH, WILLIAM M Olean. . 

JACKSON, WILLIAM B Holland, 

JACKSON, WILLIS K., . . . . Buffalo, 

JEWELL, I. R., Olean, . 

TEWETT, EDGAR B Buffalo, 

TEWETT, JOHN C 

JEWETT, SHERMAN S.. . 
KELDERHOUSE, JOHN. . 
KELLY, FAYETTE, . . . 
KENDALL, FREDERICK, 
KENEFICK, DANIEL J., . 
KISSELBURGH, WM. E., Jr., 
KLINCK, CHRISTIAN, . . 
KNIGHT, ERASTUS C, . 
KOKRNER, HERMAN T.. . 
KR.\USS, WILLIAM C. 

LAMBERT, JOHN S Fredonia, 

LAMY, CHARLES Buffalo, 

LAMY, GEORtiE II. , . . 
l.ARKIN, lOllN D, . . . 
LASCELLE.S, JOHN H., . 
LA TTIMER, GEORGE E., 
LAUGllLIN, FRANK C, . 

LAUtnii.iN, JOHN, . . . 

LETCHWORTH, WM. P., . 
LEWIS, GEORGE L., . . 
LEWIS, LORAN L., . . . 

LINCOLN, CHARLES Z Little Vail 

LITTELL, HARDIN IIETII. . . Buffalo, 
LOCKWOOD, DANIEL N.. 
I.orilROP, ITIOM.XS, . . 
l.OVE, WILLIAM IL, . . 
I.OVERIDGK, EDWARD I>.. . Cuba, 

LOW, JAMES, Ni.->gara Falls 

LUND, JOHN, Bullalo, 

LYTII, ALFRED 

McCANN, JOHN A 

McEWEN, JOHN Wellsvilh 

McGERALD, SAMUEL, . . . Buffalo. 

m(m.\ster, alexander 
McMillan, daniel il, . 
mtnaughtan, d. nathaniel, 



Page. 
166 
212 
158 
327 
334 
41 
43 
15'J 
397 
252 
398 
429 
214 
355 
458 
215 
254 
443 
362 
128 
100 
44 
45 
107 
295 
101 
129 
255 
373 
216 
307 
374 
256 
284 
399 
47 
48 
217 
285 
435 
257 
219 
430 
49 
400 
308 
50 
102 
258 
61 
108 
53 
54 
104 
12 
181 
182 
375 
259 
260 
335 
347 
348 
311 
378 



IXDEX O/' VOL. I — L'ontinued 



MACK, NORMAN E.. . . 
MACKEV. WIl.I.IAM K., . 
MACoMlil.R, WIl.I.IAM. . 
MAIIANV. Ki)\Vl AMI ]!., 
MAI.l.Al.lKf. WIl.I.AKli 1 
MANDKVII.I.E, \VM II.. 
MAKCLS, I.OLIS W., . . 

MARCV, WIl.I.IAM I 

MAKSIIAI.I., CIIAKI.E.S D., 
MAk\ IN. kOBEKT N., . . 
MAPI K.si IN, PRICE A., . 

MAT! HEWS, (;e()R(;e e., 

MAYER, losEl'II R, . . 
MEADS, WII.I.IS II., . . 

MESSER, I.. I- 

MICKl E, IIEKHERT, 
MII.l.ER. CIIAKl.ES II . 
MII.I.ER. CIIAK1.I.S W , 
MII.l.ER, EliWIN (;. S . 
MII.I.ER, I'EIEk r. 
MISCIIKA. InSEI'II, . 
MdiiNEV. lAMES. . 
M(><iT, ADEI HEKT. . 
MOKEV, NdRRI.S, . 

mi)R(;an, |(iiin c 
mokc.an. william |.. 

M()\ lis, EinVAKH II., . 
MIRKAV, (. IIAKl.ES IJ., . 
NEIK, lOHN W 

nixon", s. ereherkk, . 

MiKTII, CHARLES |.. . . 

NORTON, nathani'ei W 

NORTON, S. M.. . . 
(I- UK I EN. E. C. W'., . 
ODAV. DANIEL, . . 
OCRADV, DANIEL. 
OAKE.S, IRANK S., . 
ORCUn, WILLIAM II.. 
OTTAWAV. AKTIll R 1!.. 
I'ANKOW, CHARLES C , 
I'ARK. ROSWEI.L. 
I'All II. MAI RKE I! . 
I'ATI ERSON. CIEORtiE W.. 
I'AVNE. LEWIS .S., . . . 
I'EKSnNS. WII.IiER I-.. . 
rElEKSON. EREDK K., . 
I'ETERSON. lESSE. . . . 
I'ETIEIioNE, I.ALUEN W.. 
FIIKIN. JOHN T.. . 
I'lTT. WILLIAM IL, 
I'l.lMI.EV, EDMIND J., . 
IMOI.EV, CILXRI.ES A., 
I'OKIEK, CVRIS K . 
IMRIER. IMIER A . 
IMTTER. WILLIAM W . 
I'RAir. I'ASC AI 1'.. 
I'RESKtN. lERoME. 
I'RICE. i)S( AR I.. 
I'ROLDLn. WM. II.. 
I'CTNAM. LIK.AU I'.. 
I'LINAM. JAMES II.. 
RAMSDELL. T. T.. 
RANDALL. EDWARD i . 
UEIiADoW. Alxil I'll. 
REINECKE, OTToMAk. 



Buffalo, 



noston. 
Olcnii, 
fiulTak>. 



Jamestown, 
UufTalo, . 



Yorkshire, 
UulTalu, 



Niagara Eall 
Itutialo, . 

Dunkirk, . 
liunalo, . 
W'eslliclcl. 
I'.ulTalo, . 

I'riundship, 
HulTalo. . 
New ^■ork, 
ISulTalo. . 



We.slliclil. . 
liunalo. . 



WesU'ielil. . . 
North Tonawandn 
Uelevan. . 
Jamestown. 
Lockpiirt. 
BufTald. 



Ni-igara Ealls, 
itiilTalo, . 

Jamestown, 



ItufTalo, 



Paci. 

;i77 REYHCRN. I'ERRY C, 

220 RI( E, EDWARD R., 

2r.2 RICII.\UDS<>N, WILLIAM. 

310 Rlt IIMOND. lEWEri M . 

66 KU IIMiiND, WILLIAM, 

131 RINEW.M.T. .\DAM 1. . 

llir. koHERTS, lAMES A., . . 

:{13 ROHERTSON, ANDREW I , 

314 ROKINSON, lOlIN W.. 

Iti'.i kO(;ERS. SHERMAN S, 

3ir> R(Mir. LkANt IS s.. 

860 KOTH, EDWARD C, 

Kit) RUMSEY, IIRONSON C, (portrait, ) 

Hw RLI'l', CHARLES A.. .... 

2t;3 RYAN. . STEPHEN YINCENT, 

16(S SANItOKN, LEE R. 

1H3 SCHAITNER, lOSEI'II I" . 

3711 SCHEU, ALCl'STLS E . 

67 SCHOELI.Kol'E, ARTIIl K, 

221 SCHoELLKol'E, |AC(»H I- . 
■101 SCHOEI.I.KoI'I-, LOtlS. 

222 SCHWARTZ, |(>IIN L., 
16'.t scon, ALLEN D., . . 

13 SEIltEkT, SIMON, 

•I3(i SESSIONS, EkANK E., 

2iH SESSIONS, WAI.TEk 1... 

.W SEYMol k, HENRY II 

no SIlAEEk. EDWARD C. 

32K SIICLTS. CHARLES |.. 

112 SICMAN, ALIIERT J.', 

223 SII.YER, DILWdkTH 
f)'.l SKlNNEk. EDWAkD 

331; SI.ATEk. JONATHAN 

416 SMITH. ALIlEkl R.. 

i;0 S.MITII, HIRAM. . 

402 SMITH, LEE II , . . 

3(i3 SMITH, T. (iCII.IOkD, 

170 SMITHER, ROIiEKT K . 
184 SOITHWICK. A. I'.. 

3i(; si'Aci DiNt;, E. •;.. 

1.1 SI'ENl EK. HAkYEY .S.. 

171 SI'ENCEk. SETH S.. 

132 .STAEEokD. JAMES If.. 
337 .STAEEOkD. klCHAkD II 
2nr> .STEAkNS. (iEokt.E k.. 
437 STEAkNS. I ESTEk E.. 

133 STICKNEY. ( IIAkl.ES D., 
304 STOCKTON, LEWIS, . . 

ifi3 sTowiTs, (;Eokt;E ii., 

r,3 STRASMEk, WILLIAM I., 

2<i6 STRAISS, MATIIIAS. 

r.4 .STROOTMAN, JOHN, 

r.6 SWEET, CHARLES A., 

3tl6 TABOR, < IIARI.ES E., 

2i;i; TAYLOR, RODNEY M., 

OC TENNAM, WILLIS 11.. 

l.{4 THOMI'SON, A. Itikl Ek, 

.381 TllokN D>N, C.EORCE 11, 

33'.t TIU ksn >NE, WILLIAM. 

180 TH lANY, NEl-SON O., 

224 TII.DEN. III., . . 
07 Til LIN( .HAST, JAME.S, 

208 IH.I.INOHAST, JAMES W 

20'.t riNDI.E. THOMAS. 

3.-.7 IT irS. kol'.EkT C, 



M 
A.. 
I 





P*r.». 


ItufTalo, . 


. 368 




226 




444 


Niagara Ealls, 


137 


Williamsville, 


. 2'.t7 


llullalo. 


ou 


■ ■ 


4)>4 


• • 


172 


• ■ 


70 




38<l 


• • 


4.V.I 


•• 


. 462 

— 1 


.. 


1 1 

72 


Sanlmm, . 


. 387 


ItufTalo. . 


. 270 




. 228 


Niagara Ealls 


;!r.o 


HulTaUi, 


. 4(H1 


• • 


. 4<I7 


•• 


. 46'.i 


• • 


. 271 




. 272 


lamcstown. 


. 2'.t8 


•• 


. 138 


UufTalo, 


73 


•• 


. 287 


I'herr)- Creek, 


. 488 


liuflalo, . 


. 278 


• • 


. 417 


Westlielcl, 


. 383 


liuflalo. 


. 274 


North Tonaw 


imla. 43!) 


Inint-slown. 


. I3'.i 


r.ntlnl... 


317 




76 




446 




22'.i 


I lamliurg. 


340 


Ilufial... 


77 


•• 


. 230 


•• 


. 231 


•• 


. .ri'.l 


1 lunkirk, . 


. 186 


llulTalo. . 


. 275 




34'.l 


•• 


14 


• • 


IIS 


•• 


7!) 


•■ 


. 318 


• • 


80 


•• 


. 174 


•• 


408 


Ma)-»'iIIc, . 


. 307 


liuflalo. 


. 440 


• • 


. 3.60 


<• 


. 232 


• ■ 


.361 


■• 


. 277 


• • 


81 




238 




176 




H'J 



TREFTS, JOHN, . . . 
TKIPP, AUGUSTUS F., . 
URIiAX, GEORt;E, Jr., . 
VAN DUSE.X, AI.MON A., 
VAN GORDER, GREENLEAF S 
VE1>I)ER, C. 1',, . . . 
VEDDER, HARRISON N., 
VOCrr, FREDERICK A., 
VREELAND, EDWARD B. 
VREEI.AXD, OLIVER S., 
WADE, ARTHUR C, . 
WADSWORTII, GEORGE, 
WAITE, RICHARD A., 
WALKER, WILLIAM D., 
WALKER, WILLIAM II., 
WALLENMEIER, JOHN G 
WARD, FRANCIS G., . 
WARD, WALDEN M., . 
WARNER, THOMAS E., 
WA TERS, IRVING E., . 
WEBER, JOHN B., . . 
WEBSTER, ELLIS, . 





IAVE.\ 


" OF I 




^A<;J^ 


. . Buflfalo, 


. :',:i() 




" 


81 




" 


8.5 




Mayville, 


. 140 


AFS. 


Buffalo, . 


. 234 




EUicottville, 


. 141 




Buffalo, 


. 235 
. 278 




Salamanca, 


. 341 
. 800 




Jamestown, 


. 384 




Buffalo, 


. 86 

. 87 

. 40!) 

88 


, Jr., 


Tonawanda, 


. 388 




Buffalo, . 


. 236 




North Collins 


. 301 




North Tonawanda, 4150 




Buffalo, . 


. 461 




,, 


8'.l 
. 27'J 



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WEBSTER, GEORGE B., 
WEILL, HENRY, . . . 
WELLMAN, A. MINER, 
WENDE, ERNEST, . . 
WENDT, HENRY W., . 
WENDT, WILLIAM F., 
W'ENTWORTH, ALEXANDEI 
WEYAND, CHRISTIAN, . 
WTIEELER, CHARLES B., 
WHEELER, GEORGE W., 
WTHTE, TRUMAN C, . 
WTCK.S, CHARLES H., . 
WTCKS, |OHN G., . 
W ILCOX, ANSLEY, . . 
WILCOX, DAVID J., 
WILCOX, DE WITT G., 
WILLIAMS, CHARLES E., 
WOODBURY, EGBURT E., 
WOODWARD, JOHN, . 
WRIGHT, ALBERT \., . 
ZELLER, G. FREDERICK, 
ZITTEL, W'ADSWORTH J. 



Buffalo, 

Friendship 
Buffalo, 



Randolph, 
Buflalo, 



Jamestown 

Buffalo, 

Springville 

Buffalo, 

Jamestown 

Buffalo, 



Page. 
360 
238 
18G 
288 
448 
419 
142 
420 

91 
239 

92 
302 
389 
176 
342 
320 
240 
343 
188 
483 

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WESTERN SECTION 






In the Western Section are published 
the biographies of subjects from the 
counties of Allegany. Cattaraugus, Chau- 
tauqua. Erie, and Niagara. 



MEN OF THE WESTERN SECTION 



jfraul; t>. GOO^VCar has achieved an unusual 
il(.-i;rcc of ^u^ I CN.-> in ilic liusincss world of Huffalo 
and northwestern Pennsylvania, where he has been 
an active fijjure lor the past twenty-five years. He 
is of luiglish and Scotch tlescent, and possesses the 
sturdy determination and shrewd common sense of 
lioth races. He is a son of Dr. Hradley (loodyear, 
I'ornierly of Buffalo, and was l)orn in (iroton, N. V., 
less than fifty years ago. His early education wa.s 
olitained in the public schools, the academy at East 
Aurora, N. V., and from private tutors. 

On coni|)letinj; his education Mr. ( loodyear taught 
a district school a few months, and later became a 
i>ookkeeper for Robert I.ooney, who operated exten- 
sive sawmills at I.ooneyville, N. Y. He was anxious, 
however, for a busy commercial career ; and in 1X72 
he went to Buffalo, where his brother (."harles had 
recently established himself a.s a lawyer, and em- 
barked in the coal and lumber trade. Beginning at 
first on a small .scale, he was soon able to enlarge 
his o])erations : and betore many years became a 
prominent factor in these industries throughout the 
section tributary to Buffalo. Becoming convinceti 
of the desirability of manufacturing his own lumber, 
he built, in connection with his father, two sawmills 
in northwestern Pennsylvania; and ;ls this venture 
proved successful, he established others in different 
|)arts of the state, until he ha.s built not less than fif- 
teen .sawmills and more than four hundred miles of 
railroad, which have been constantly employed in 
sup|)lying the demands of his extensive trade. 

In 1K«7 t'harles \V. ( loodyear, who had been for 
manv years a ]>rominent attorney of Buffalo, gave u]> 
his law business : and the two brothers establisheil 
the firm of I''. H. \- C. \V. (Joodyear. which I'or the 
|iast ten vears ha.s conducted a vast amount of busi- 
ness. In order to open up the regions of north- 



western Pennsylvania, and facilitate the shijiment of 
lumber therefrom, F. H. (loodyear in IHS.'i built at 
his own expense a little railroad known as the 
Sinnemahoning \'alley, I'rom Keating Summit, 
Penn., on the line of the Western New \'ork \- 
Penn.sylvania railroad, into that |iart of the lum- 
ber regions where he was then ojierating. The 
(loodyear brothers owned thousands of acres of the 
finest hemlock forest in Potter county : and as their 
busy mills gradually devoured the timber and the 
hills grew bare, it became neces.sary to go farther for 
the supply of raw material, and more railroads ha<l 
to be built in ortler to get the logs to the mills. 
For this purpose "the Cioodycars," as the two 
brothers are familiarly called throughout that region, 
incori>orated the Buffalo & Susipiehanna Railroad 
C"o., of which the earlier lines became a jart ; and 
extended the road as far east as (laleton and .An- 
sonia. On New Year's Day, IKIMi, another branch 
w;is opened from (laleton to Wcll.sville, .Mlcgany 
county, N. Y. Mr. (loodyear is now the <hief 
owner of the Buffalo \- Sus<|uehanna road, and has 
an important share in its management. 

Mr. Goodyear's .success in the conduct of his own 
commercial undertakings is evidence of his keen 
business foresight and marked exe<utivc ability. He 
has al.so hatl a |)art in the management of other 
im|)ortant enterprises, notably the L'nitcd States 
Leather Co., of which he is a director. Though so 
fiilly occupied with the demands of busines.s, Mr. 
(loodyear is a progressive and imblic-s|)irited citi/en, 
who may be counted on to help in any good cau.se. 
He has never interested hini.self actively in |)oliti<'s, 
and has never been a candidate for an elective office. 
In l.ssti President Cleveland ap|H)inie<l him a roni- 
mi.ssioner to examine government lanils on the line 
of the Northern Pacific railroad, and he discharge*! 



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MEN or .\EW VOKK — WESTERN SECT/OX 



the duties ol" the iiomIkhi with his customary enerp;y 
and ability. 

Mr. Goodyear is well known in social circles in 
Buffalo ; and is a memljer of several ])roniinenl 
clubs, including the lUiffalo, Liberal, Mllicotl, 




r-U l.\K II. COODVF.AR 

Country, and Falconwood. He belongs, also, to 
the Manhattan and Lawyers' clubs of New York 
city. 

PERSONAL CIIR ONOL O G V— Frank Hoiiy 
Goodyear was born at Groton, yV. Y., March 17, 
18Ji9 ; was educated at East Aurora Academy; 7vas 
bookkeeper and teacher in a district school in 1871 ; 
married Josefiliine Looney of Looneyville, N. V. , Sep- 
tember IS, 1872 ; has engaged in the coal and liimher 
trade in Buffalo since 1872. 



■COilliam lb. %0\''C win be called a young 
man tor m)iiic time \ el ; but he has already attained 
distinction, not only in the profession of law, but 
also in that of teaching and school administration. 
Born in Buffalo while the Civil War wa.s raging. 



he was educated in the public .schools of the city, 
graduating from the high school with the class of '81. 
District .'\ttorney Kenefick, Congressman Mahany, 
and Frederick A. Vogt, now principal of the high 
school, were members of the same class. 

For the next ten years Mr. Love en- 
gaged in school teaching. Soon after his 
graduation from the high school he was 
a])pointed Ijy ChristO])her (j. Fox prin- 
cipal of school No. 29 at South Buf- 
falo, and continued to teach there for 
four years. Appointed in 1885 to the 
principalship of school No. 38, he re- 
mained in charge of that institution for 
the next five years, develo]5ing all the 
while decided talent as a teacher and 
organizer of school work. When he 
went to school No. 33 it was compara- 
tively small ; but when he left it, in 
1890, it was the largest school in South 
Buffalo, and one of the largest in the 
city. His next school was No. 13, in 
the central district of Buffalo, to which 
he was transferred in the fall of 1890. 
He remained there until February, 1892, 
when he succeeded James F. Crooker as 
superintendent of schools. Mr. Love 
was ajjpointed to this important position 
by a commission consisting of Mayor 
Bishop, Comptroller (lavin, and Coun- 
cilman Hanrahan. He was only thirty 
years old at the time, and the appoint- 
ment was a striking tribute to his charac- 
ter as a man and capacity as an edu- 
cator. He held the position until 
January 1, 1893. In the fall of 1892 
he was unanimously nominated by the 
Democratic party to succeed himself as 
superintendent, but lost the election by a narrow 
margin after a hotly contested campaign. 

While Mr. Love was in charge of the Buffalo 
schools the municipal ordinances relating thereto 
were revised under his advice and supervision. He 
also a.ssistcd materially in organizing the board of 
school examiners. Largely through his efforts a 
part of the ]>ublic funds was set aside for the pur- 
pose of estalilishing kindergartens in Buffalo; and 
in recognition of his work in this regard he was 
elected the first honorary member of the Buffalo 
Free Kindergarten Association. 

During the latter part of his teaching Mr. Love 
had been preparing himself to practice law. Ik- 
filed his certificate as a student in the office of Ciid- 
deback & Kenefick, and devoted his afternoons and 



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Saturdays to tlic sliuly of law in their office. Hy 
the time he left the [wsition of sii|H;rintenilent of 
schools his studies were far advanced, and he was 
able to |)ass the l>ar examination at Rochester in 
March, IHil.'j. lie was elected |)resident of the c1;lss 
of lawyers admitted at that time. In .Vpril, 1H!».'{, 
he formed a lartnershij) for the general jjractice of 
law with Daniel J. Kenefick, under the firm name of 
Kenefick iS: I.ove. This as.sociati()n has continued 
to the present time, and has prosjicred markedly a.s 
regards volume of husine.ss, .success in litigation, and 
solidity of clientage. 'I'he firm has a diversified 
practice consisting of contested work in the courts, 
the settlement of estates, and general office business. 
Without having made s])ecial eflbrts to obtain that 
kind of work, they have come to enjoy a con- 
siderable clientage among fraternal and benevolent 
societies, 'i'hey are the attorneys, for 
e,\ample, of the Knights of the Macca- 
bees and the Buffalo Fire l)e|)artment 
Beneficiary .Vs.sociation. 

Mr. Love belongs to various social 
organizations, including the Knights of 
Columbus, Royal .\rcanum, Buffalo Or- 
pheus, and Knights of the Maccabees. 
He has been prominent in the counsels 
of the Democratic party for several years, 
and h;Ls taken an active jart in campaigns 
as a |)latform sjjcaker. 

PERSOXA L CHR ONOL OGY — 
William J /fury Lmr 7vas I'oni at Biilfalo 
NtK'fm/'fr IS, 1802 ; 7C'as eilucateil in the 
Buffalo piiNic schools, graduating from the 
high school in 1881 ; loas principal of 
various public schools in Buffalo, l8Sl-f)J, 
and superintendent of schools of that city in 
ISO J ; was admitted to the bar in IS'M : 
married Helen A. Niendorf of Buffalo 
June 18, 18!H} ; has practiced Am' in 
Buffalo since I8f).i. 



1I401'VI£> /IDOl'CVJ, who has practiced 

law in KiilTalo tor upwards of thirty years, 

and has long been recogni/eil as one of 

the leaders of his profession in that city, 

is a son of Joseph Morey, an lOrie-county 

farmer. He received a common -.school 

education, followed by a broken course 

of study at ( )berlin College, from which 

he graduated in ISti.'J. The next few 

years were divided between military service and 

study at the .Mbany I.aw .School, and in l«(!(i he 

took uj) his residence in Buffalo, and began the 

practice of his profession. 



In the early |«rt of his |irofessional career Mr. 
Morey devoted considerable time to public affairs. 
He served for a year as assistant city attorney, and 
for two years as assistant district attorney of Krie 
county ; and in 1«74 he w.-is the Reimbliian candi- 
date for district attorney. Since that time he has 
held no public office, but has continued to prai-ticc 
his profession in Buffalo. In ISS'i the Republican 
city convention nominated him for the office of 
mayor, but he declined for |)rofessional rea.scins to 
accept the nomination. 

In l)<sr>-X(J Mr. Morey was chairman of a com 
mittee of nine who framed new rules for the govern- 
ment of Republican caucuses and conventions in 
I*",rie county. These rules aimed, by a registry of 
all Republican voters and cjther safeguards, to secure 
to all such voters full o|)i>orlunity to vote at the 




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caucuses, and to be re|>rcsented in the conventions 
of the (uirty. They were adojitcd by the county 
convention of IH«(i, and were cpiile siiccessfiil for a 
time in securing those objects. 



14 



MEX OF xj:ir y()RK—ui:srFR\ sKcr/ox 



In the winter of l.S!>2-!)o Mr. Morey made an 
address, on behalf of various committees of citizens 
of Buffalo, before the assembl)- and senate commit- 
tees on cities at Albany, in favor of the repeal of 
what were popularly known as the "sneak bills." 
These bills had been rushed hastily through the 




legislature ; they changed in an unusual and extra- 
ordinary manner the political control of the police 
board of Buffalo ; and their passage jiroduced a 
notable and wholesome uprising of jnililic sentiment, 
which resulted in a ])olitical revolution at the city 
elections which followed. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Norris Morcy 
was born at Brant, Eric county, N. V., July 20, 
183S ; completed his education at Obcrlin {O.) Col- 
lege ; served in the Union army, 1861-62 and 
186If-65 ; studied la7v, and was admitted to the 
bar in 1866 ; roas assistant city attorney of Buffalo, 
1870-71, and assistant district attorney of Erie 
county, 1872-7 Ji ; has practiced law in Buffalo since 
1860. 



George 1?3. StOWitS, Buffalo's veteran school 
teacher, began his career in the public schools of 
that city in 18(51, and is still actively engaged there 
at the age of seventy-five. In all these years his 
enthusiasm has never failed ; and his most earnest 
efforts are still directed to the task of training the 
boys and girls in his charge to be true 
and loyal American citizens, as well as in- 
telligent, well educated men and women. 
Major Stowits was born in the village 
of Fort Plain, in the beautiful Mohawk 
valley. He was left an orphan in child- 
hood, and was thrown upon his own 
resources ; but he succeeded in secur- 
ing a good fundamental education, and 
during a career of more than fifty years 
as a teacher he has constantly broadened 
and e.xtended his mental equipment. 
.After attending academies at Clinton 
and Whitestown, Oneida county, he 
studied law for a time in an office at 
Little Falls, N. Y. ; but when he was 
twenty-one years old he began his long 
career as a teacher. His first field of 
labor was Starkville, Herkimer c:ounty ; 
and he subsequently taught at Fort Plain, 
Waterford, Little Falls, Ilion, and Bata- 
via. In the summer of 185fi he went 
abroad, and made a study of the educa- 
tional institutions of Fjigland, Ireland, 
and Scotland. 

January 1, ISiil, Major Stowits went 
to Buffalo as principal of Public School 
No. 10. The troublous war times were 
already close at hand, and in the sum- 
mer of 1862 he gave up his position as a 
teacher, and went to the front, luilist- 
ing August 29 as a private in company 
H, lOOth New York volunteers, he 
joined his regiment a few weeks later at Glouces- 
ter Point, Va. In December the command was 
ordered to the department of the South, and took 
part in the siege of Charleston and the bombardment 
of Fort Sumter. After serving in many of the most 
hard-fought engagements of the war, the 100th regi- 
ment was ordered back to Cloucester in the spring 
of 18(i4, and thence to Bernuida Hundreds. In the 
advance upon Richmond Major Stowits served as 
acting assistant adjutant general on the staff of the 
commanding officer; and in attempting to jjush for- 
ward his .skirmish line closer to the enemy's works, 
he was shot through the right arm. Before the woimd 
was well healed he returned to his regiment, and 
served on the brigade slalf during the rest of the 



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war. In tlic three years of his service he was jjfo- 
motctl through the various grades ol' orderly sergeant, 
second and first lieutenant, and captain, to the rank 
of major ; and this title he has lieeii proud to l>ear 
ever since. 

.After the war Major Slowits taught for a short 
lime in Krcdonia, N. Y., and at Martinsl)urg, \V. 
Va. In the spring of l.S()7 he was retailed to Buf- 
falo as principal of Public School No. ."!. Since then 
he has lieen (onnc< ted in turn with .schools Nos. '■^Tt 
(which he organized), ><, 4, (J, 1!(, and "2; and in 
the fall of IXitT he was ap|X)inted princi|Kd of Pub- 
lic School No. 11. He was at one time the Repub- 
lican candidate for superintendent of education. 

Major Stowits has taken sjjecial interest lor many 
years in the Crand .Vrmy of the Republic, lie was 
one of the organizers of Hitlwell-\\'ilke.son Post, No. 
SI, of HulTalo, and has twice served a.s 

commander of the [Kjst. In lH!t;{ he 

was a candidate for the office of Senior 
Vice Commander for New York slate, 
and came within .seventeen votes of ele< 
lion out of a total of ~^)^). He has ] 
delivered freipienl .Memorial Day ad- I 
dresses to (Irand .\rm\ Posts in neigh- 
boring towns as well as in Buffalo. In 
.August, 1H!)7, when the National I'.n 
campment of the organization met in 
Buflalo, he worked with characteristii 
energy and zeal to make the meeting an 
entire success, and was the Senior .\idc 
to the Department Commander. .At thai 
time he contributed to the Buffalo /////> 
Irated Express a .series of articles consist 
ing of war reminiscences, and mattcr> 
of general interest regarding the ( Irani! 
Army of the Republic and kinilred or- 
ganizations. Major Stowits has also 
written a history of his regiment, the 
lOOih New York volunteers ; and he as 
sisted ( Icorge S. Hazaril of the BulTalo 
Historical Society in the compilation of 
a larger work. It is his purjx)se to pre 
sent to the Historical Society his es.says, 
speeches, anti addres.ses on jiatriotic and 
educational topics, which he has carefully 
preserved and whi(h form an interesting 
and uniijue collection. He is a member 
of the Royal Templars of Temperance, 
and of l^ueen I'ity Lodge, K. & A. M. 

PF.RSOXA [. CIIR i hVO/. O Ci J — Gforgf Unify 
Shnvits was horn at Fori Plain, N. J'., NiK'emhfr ID, 
1NJ2 ; was fiUifiilfil at i-ommon silwols ami aaulfinifs ; 
marrieil Ailaline Shmiits of Stark-.'illf, X. )'. , Odohfr 



20, ISi') ; sfrt'fil in llif Union aiiny, IStiJ-^lii : lias 
/aux'lil school since IS^S, ivilli the excefition of the years 
spent in the army, ami since 1S<!7 lias heen continuously 
emploxcil as principal of various puhlic schools in Ihiffalo. 
«*• 

G. Jf IC^CllCl; ZCllCr, who Hils carried on the 
manufacture of leather in Buffalo for many years, 
was born in Ciermany little more than sixty years ago. 
His early education was received in the e.\i client 
(lennan schools, and at the age of seventeen he en>i- 
gratcd to the Inited States, and settleil in Buffalo. 
For the next two years he attended the public schools 
of that city, learning in that way the language and 
customs of the strange land, and fitting himself to 
engage in business. 

In I «.")■» he entered the employ of j. I-'. Sthoell- 
kopf, a Cicrnian like himself, who had cstablishe<l a 





,i:<lK>.l- It STOWtTS 



tannery in Buffalo some ten years previously, an<l had 
already built up an extensive business including sev- 
eral |>Ianls in different |iarts of the country. He 
remained with him ten years, and during the latter 



If, 



ME\ OF NFAV YORK —WF.STFJiX SECT/OX 



part of the lime traveled considerably, buying and 
selling goods, and acting as Mr. .Schocllkoi)f's confi- 
dential representative. 

At the end of this time Mr. Zcller determined to 
go into business for himself. He was almost thirty 
years old : and had gained an excellent training in 




G. FREDERICK 7.EI.I.ER 

soimd business principles, as well as a thorough 
familiarity with the tanner's trade, from his long ser- 
vice with Mr. SchoelIko|)f, a inisiness man of unusual 
ability. Accordingly he formed a partnership with 
George Laub, under the style of Laub & Zeller, and 
began the manufacture of leather on his own acc:ount. 
This a.ssociation lasted for almost a (luarter of a cen- 
tury, and was entirely successful. By the year 188!! 
Mr. Zeller became desirous of admitting to a share 
in the business his three sons, Henry C, J. Fred, 
and Fklward G. Zeller. He therefore severed his 
connection with Mr. Laub, built a new tannery on 
Howard and Smith streets, Buffalo, and established 
the jiresent firm of G. F. Zeller & Sons. Mr. Zel- 
ler maintains an active supervision of the entire 



establishment, and devotes the same prudent and 
carefiil attention to every detail that has charac- 
terized the conduct of the concern from the begin- 
ning. Under the new management the business has 
prospered markedly, and the product of the Zeller 
tannery is known throughout the United States, and 
finds a wide and ready market. 

Mr. Zeller's .success in carrying on his 
own business has naturally brought him 
into prominence in the commercial life 
of Buffalo, and he has been called u[)on 
to take jjart in the management of vari- 
ous financial institutions. He has been 
vice president of the Citizens' Bank ever 
since its organization in 18!)0, and has 
contributed much to its high standing. 
He has been for many years a trustee of 
the Buffalo Savings Bank, one of the 
most solid institutions in the city ; and 
he is actively interested in other business 
enterprises. 

Though far from being a politician in 

' anv sense of the word, Mr. Zeller is a 

I ' . 

i ]KibIic-spirited citizen, and has taken part 

' more or less in public affairs. In the 

fall of 1873 he was elected an alderman 
from the old 4th ward, Buffalo, and 
served for the ensuing two years, and 
until he moved out of the ward. He is 
best known in public life, however, as a 
fire commissioner, having been one of 
the most efficient members of that board 
for more than a dozen years. He was 
first apjiointed in 1884 by Mayor Sco- 
viUe, and the appointment was particu- 
larly gratifying from the fact that it was 
received without any solicitation on Mr. 
Zeller's part. At the end of his term of six 
years he was reaj)|)ointed by Mayor Bishop. 
In 1896 Mayor Jewett appointed him for a third term; 
but Mr. Zeller resigned six months later, feeling that 
he had served the city well and long in that ca|)acity, 
and was entitled to be released from fiirther duty. 

Mr. Zeller is a life member of the German Young 
Men's Association of Buffalo and the Buffalo ()r|)heus, 
and belongs to various other societies. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— G. Frederiik 
Zeller was born in Wurttcinbcrg, Germany, February 
8, 1836 ; Tvas educated in German and American 
schools ; married Barbara Mochel of Buffalo May 17, 
18'>9 ; was in the employ of J. F. Schoellkopf, lS5r>- 
Go ; was an alderman of Buffalo, 1874-75, and a 
member of the board of fire commissioners, 188Jf-!)G ; 
has conducted a tannery in Buffalo since 1805. 



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17 



E>c Hlva StaiiwooD HlCiauC»cr »a.s i>orn 

in Maine, Init in early lioyhood he wenl to Ohio 
with his mother, where, at the age of fifteen, he en- 
listed in tile 12><th Ohio volunteer infantry, serving 
three years, anil until the (lose of the war, as a pri- 
vate soldier. Most young men would feel that such 
an ex|K;rience was education enough, hut 
Mr. .\lexander delilierately returne<l to 
his native state, and jireiaretl for college 
at Kdwaril Little Institute in .\ut)urn. 
He took his bachelor's degree from How- 
doin t'ollege in 1)^70, having a.s cla.ssniates 
James .\. koherts, comptroller of New 
York state, Dr. I,u< ien Howe, and \Villi> 
H. Meads, ail of Huffalo. 

.After graduation .Mr. .Mexander went 
to Kort Wayne, Ind., where he taught in 
the |iul)lic S( hools until he became one of 
the editors and ijro|)rietors of the Kort 
Wayne Gazette, a leading Rei)ul)lican 
pa])er of northern Indiana. I^ter, having 
dis|)Osed of his interest in this publica- 
tion, he accepted a position on the t'in- 
cinnati Gazette as staff correspondent, 
with residence at Indianajtolis. While 
so engaged he was elected secretary ol 
the Republican state committee, holding; 
the jiosition for six years. It was also 
his good fortime at this time to be a])- 
|>ointed clerk of the I'nited States senate 
committee on privileges and elections b\ 
its chairman. Senator .Morton, and to ac- 
coni|>any the latter to Oregon during the 
investigation of the senatorial election in 
that state in the winter of l.H7<i. 

.Mr. .Alexander's connection with the 
newsi>ai)er was merely a stepping-stone to 
the ranks of the legal profe.ssion. For his 
precejUor in the study of the law he had 
no less a master than Senator .\l( Donald, under 
whose tuition he studied until atlmitted to the bar 
in January, 1«77. He then formed a |)artnershi|) 
with Stanton J. Peelle of Indiana|K)lis, now judge 
of the Court of Claims in Wa.shington. In 1KX1 
Mr. Alexantler, upon the recommendation of Senator 
Harrison, was ap|>ointed by President (larfield fit'th 
auditor of the treasury de|iartment, and left Indiana 
for Washington. Here among other things he wa.s 
re<|uired to ])a.ss uiwn and settle the a< <ounts of 
Cniled States ministers and consuls, of the internal 
revenue, of the Smithsonian Institute, of the census 
and |>atent offices, and the deiwrtment of state — ac- 
counts amounting in all to upwards of S1()((,(K)0,0()() 
annuallv. .A reform feature of his work w.ns the 



a|>plicalion of a system of chec ks ujwn consular fees, 
making it im|K>.ssili1e for any consul, without dis- 
lovery, to collect a fee and retain it. Mr. .Alexander 
served umler secretaries Windom, l-'olger, .McCulloch, 
and Manning. While residing in the national lap- 
ital, he was elected and served as commander of the 




DF AI.VA ST.ixivnnn Ai.r.XAxn/-:/^' 

Deiwrtment of the I'otomac, (Irand .Anny of the 
Republic. 

.Mr. .Alexander, attracted by the manifest advan- 
tages of HufTalo and by a law |>artnershi]> with his 
college < lassmate, Mr. Rol>crts, moved thither in 
1HM."(. Three years afterward, when Cenend liar 
rison had become a candidate for I'resident, Mr. 
.Alexander was invited to assist him, and for this 
jiuriKjse s|)ent the entire cam|aign of IKUM at Indian- 
a|)olis as his private secret.iry. In June, INH'.I, 
.Mr. .Alexander was appointed United States district 
atlornev for the northern ilistrii t of New V'ork, and 
held the office imtil KecemUr. 1 «!•:{, dis< harging 
successfully its res))onsible duties. The failure of 
two national banks anil a large defalcation in the 



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Albany City National Bank, both of which occurred 
during Mr. Alexander's term, gave the district attor- 
ney ample opportunity for good work ; and the 
fact that, of eight men indicted for these failures 
and this defalcation, seven were convicted and sent 




17, ISJtB ; senced three years diirin;^ the Cml War; 
icas educated at Edward Little Institute, Auburn, 
Me., and at Bowdoin College, Bruns7vick, Me. ; 
edited the Fort Wayne "Gazette,''^ 1871-74; wwj' 
admitted to the bar at Indiaftapolis in January, 1877 ; 
7vas fifth auditor of the treasury, 1881-85 ; 
7e>as United States district attorney, 1889— 
93; married Alice Colby of Defiance, O., 
September IJ,., 1871, and Anne Lucille 
Bliss of Buffalo December SO, 189.i. 



TRACY C. BECKER 

to the penitentiary, shows thai tlie work of the' office 
was well cared for. 

Mr. Alexander has shown marked abilit\- and 
capacity for affairs in whatever he has undertaken. 
Political life in its higher form has seemed to him a 
worthy ambition, and his time and thought, outside 
the business of his profession, have ever been subject 
to the demand of his party on the stump and in the 
work of organization. But while a strong partisan, 
he is no believer in party success at any cost, and he 
has identified himself with clean politics at all times. 
He is a member of the Buffalo and University clubs, 
and is well known and esteemed in social circles, at 
the bar, and in the jilainer walks of life. 

PER.SONAL CHRONOLOGY — Dc Alva 
Stanwood Alexander was born at Richmond, Me. , July 



TlraCB C. Becker has attained a 
prominent position at the bar and in the 
public .service at a comparatively early 
age. He was well prepared for the pro- 
fession he adopted, and thus had to over- 
come none of those obstacles that retard, 
when they do not prevent, the success of 
ambitious men of limited education who 
undertake the practice of law. Mr. Becker 
has confined himself closely to his pro- 
fession ; and whenever he has accepted 
public office it has been because the posi- 
tion involved legal work, and was in line 
with his vocation. 

Mr. Becker's studies preparatory for 
college were pursued at a private school 
in Albany, where he was fitted for Union 
College, graduating therefrom in the clas- 
sical course at the unusual age of nineteen. 
He then entered the famous Alban\- L.aw 
School, studying office practice meanwhile 
with ('.. B. and J. Kellogg of Troy and 
S. W. Rosendale of Albany, and took his 

^ LL. B. degree in 1876. He was admitted 

to the bar the same year, and thus began 
practice when only twenty-one years old. 
I'he next year he came to Buffalo, where 
lie has ])racticed ever since. 

l-"or four years Mr. Becker was one of the assistant 
district attorneys of lorie county, under District At- 
torney l'>. VV. Hatch, now a justice of the Supreme 
Court. Mr. Becker was nominated for the office of 
city attorney in 1883, and came within two hundred 
votes of an election. In 1894 he was elected a mem- 
ber of the state constitutional convention, and served 
on several of the most important committees. .\s 
chairman of the committee on legislative organization, 
which apportioned the state .senate and assembly dis- 
tricts, he took a leading part in embodying in the 
constitution provisions to prevent political gerry- 
mandering. He was also a member of the judiciary 
committee and of the committee on cities, and ren- 
dered efficient aid both in committee and on the 



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floor of the convention in securing the adoption and 
|)a.ssage of the important amendments that were 
ratified liy the |)CO|jle. 

In the I'leld of munici|)al reform Mr. liecker has 
l>een foremost among the citizens of Buffalo. He 
.served with Messrs. .Milhurn, Wilcox, Clinton, 
(Jraves, and others as a meml)er of the Buffalo Citi- 
zens' .'Vs-sociation, which succeeded in obtaining from 
the legislature in 1K92, after several years of earnest 
effort, a new charter for the city. I.argely through 
the efforts of the same gentlemen there followeil, 
three years later, the i)as.sage of the jury-refonn bill 
for Krie county — a measure which daily proves the 
wisdom of its promoters, and which is of vast benefit 
to the cause of justice. Mr. Becker was one of the 
organizers of the Buffalo l-aw School, in which he 
has lectured since 1.SH(J on criminal law 
and medical jurisprudeni e. 

The esteem in which .Mr. Becker is 
held by his professional brethren is evi- 
denced in their selection of him, for four 
years as chairman of the executive com- 
mittee, and for one year as president, of 
the State Bar As.sociation of New York. 
Not only as a practitioner, however, is he 
regarded highly ; for he has also gained 
a reputation in the ranks of law writers. 
In collaboration with Professor K. \. 
Witthaus, and other medico-legal special 
ists, Mr. Becker has written a valuable 
work, in four volumes, on " Medital Jur 
isprudence. Forensic .Medicine, anil Tox- 
icology." His law practice is large antl 
growing, and he has a])|ieared before all 
the courts of this state during the last 
decade in many im|)ortant civil and crim 
inal cases. He is a meml)er of one ol 
the leading law firms in Buffalo, of which 
Comptroller James .\. Roberts is the 
senior |)artner. 

Mr. Becker is prominent in social lite, 
and is a member of various fraternal so- 
cieties. Masonic lodges, and of the Buffalo 
Club. He is a Presbyterian in religion 
and a Republican in politics. 

PERSONAL CHROXOLOG ) ' — 
Tracy Cluitfiehi Baker 70iis horn at 
Cohoes, N. ) '. , Fehruitry 1!, , lH')'t : graii- 
iiateJ from Union Collci^r, Si-hfntctady. 
N. }'., /// ISl!,, and from Albany Laio 
School in 1816 ; was admitted to the l>ar at Bingham- 
Ion, N. y.,in Afay, ISlll ; married Afinnie A. Le Roy 
of Cohoes December J7 , ISIU : uuis Jd assistant dis- 
trict attorney of Erie county, ISSlSJi ; loas president 



of the Xe^o Yoik State Bar Association in 1S!J4 : has 
practiced taw in Buffalo since 1877. 
• • • 

CbilliCi' jf . UljibOP owes his success in life to 
close attention to business, zeal and activity in car- 
ing for all matters entrusted to him, and an honesty 
and a singleness of pur|)Ose from which nothing 
could entice him. I'irmness, shrewdness, boldness, 
and the strictest integrity are |>arts of his character. 
He has never been known to fail in the di.scharge of 
the manifold duties that have devolved Ujwn him as 
a business man. as mayor of the city of Buffalo for 
five years, or as a representative Mason, to whom the 
fraternity otten looks for assistance and guidance. 

When only thirteen years old, young Bishop 
sought and obtained em|)Ioyment in a retail grocery. 




1 1 I r\ I / .s I 



This was the humble lieginning of a bu.siness life 
that has continued to the present time with an ever 
increasing and broadening success. For many years 
Mr. Bishop has lieen a leading wholesale dealer in 



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tea, coffee, and spices, having established himself in 
that business in 1869. He is interested in various 
other business enterprises, is a director of the People's 
Bank, and a trustee of the Western Savings Bank. 

Mr. Bishop pursued the quiet tenor of his way 
as a business man, making friends steadily and hold- 
ing them firmly, with no thought or amljition for 
public life, until 18<S7, when the Democratic party 
insisted on making him its candidate for county 
treasurer. The contest was unusually close, and 
when the official count was made Mr. Bishop was 
declared defeated by forty-one votes. Some of his 
friends strongly urged him to contest the election ; 
but he declined to do this, having no desire for an 
office so obtained. This forbearance increased his 
popularity greatlv, and, together with the strength 
he had shown in the contest, made him his party's 
candidate for mayor of Buffalo in 1889. He was 
elected by a very large majorit}', and two years later 
was re-elected, serving altogether five years as the 
chief magistrate of Buffalo. To the discharge of the 
many vexatious duties of that trying position he 
ai)])lie<l plain, business methods, and gave the citv 
one of the most efficient administrations it had ever 
known. His conscientious devotion to duty was 
modest withal, and he brought about many reforms 
and prevented many abuses of which the public 
learned only incidentally. His idea of what a mayor 
ought to be was aptly shown in an after-dinner ad- 
dress made at a banquet given to (Irover Cleveland at 
the Iroquois hotel on May 11, 1891, when he said 
that the mayor should be a "handy man." That 
was exactly what Mayor Bishop proved himself to 
be for the taxpayers. Never for a moment did he 
swerve from what seemed to him the right course ; 
and to his credit it may be added that what seemed 
right to him seemed right to the majority of his 
fellow-citizens as well. 

Mr. Bishop is a Mason of high standing and great 
popularity. He is a Knight Templar, and holds the 
32d degree in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite. 
He has been Master of Concordia Lodge and Emi- 
nent Commander of Lake Krie Commandery, No. 20, 
Knights Temijlars. He was president of the board 
of trustees of the Masonic Hall Association for five 
years, and in that capacity won the highest praise, 
formally ex])ressed, of his associates. For four years 
he was District Deputy (Irand Master for the 25th 
Ma.sonic district, and as such had the honor of laying 
the corner stone of the magnificent temple that is 
owned by the fraternity in Buffalo. He is first vice 
president of the Ma.sonic Life Association of Western 
NewYork, and has been treasurer of Ismailia Temple, 
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, ever since its institution. 



PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Charles Fred- 
erick Bishop luas born at Williamsville, N. K, Octo- 
ber IJf, ISJf.]^ : moved to Buffalo in his boyhood ; at- 
tended the public schools until he 7vas thirteen years 
old ; married Kate Mora>i of Buffalo August 6, 
1865 ; 7i'as elected mayor of Buffalo in 1889, and 
re-elected in 1891, sei-ving Jive years altogether ; has 
conducted a wholesale business in tea, coffee, and 

spices since 1869. 

•♦• 

MilSOn S. JBiSSell is one of the group of 
public men who have made Buffalo famous in the 
political annals of the country. Four of the num- 
ber, Presidents Fillmore and Cleveland and Me.ssrs. 
Hall and Bissell, have been lawyers, and by a unique 
coincidence have occupied the same law office. Few 
cities have sent so many men to fill the highest posi- 
tions in state and nation as the city of Buffalo. 
That the history of the country has been profoundly 
influenced by these men is not an unwarranted state- 
ment growing out of local pride. 

Mr. Bissell is a native New Yorker, and his home 
has been in Buffalo since he was five years old, when 
his parents removed thither from New London, 
Oneida county. He had, therefore, the advantages 
of an education in the public schools of the city ; 
and in his sixteenth year he was sent to New Haven, 
Conn., to prepare for college in the famous Hopkins 
Crammar School. He entered Yale College in 
l!S(i."), and graduated with the class of 1869. Re- 
turning to Buffalo, he began the study of law in the 
office of Laning, Cleveland & Folsom, and was 
admitted to practice two years later. 

As a lawyer his career has been marked by close 
attention to work, faithfulness to clients, increasing 
practice, and steady advancement in the respect and 
esteem of his brethren at the bar. The office of the 
c:ounselor has been to him far more congenial than 
the contentious life of the advocate ; and as an office 
lawyer he holds a high rank both because of his wide 
knowledge of his profession, and especially because 
of excellent business judgment, which has drawn to 
him a large corjjoralion practice. The law is, after 
all. like any branch of science — a few broad ])rinci- 
]>les and a great deal of common sense. 

Mr. Bissell has been associated in partnership with 
a number of distinguished men and strong lawyers. 
His first partner was Lyman K. Bass. Later, Mr. 
Cleveland joined the firm, which was known as 
Bass, Cleveland & Bissell. After Mr. Bass retired 
and Mr. Cleveland was elected mayor of Buffalo, the 
firm became Cleveland, Bissell iV Sicard. On his 
election to the governorship Mr. Cleveland with- 
drew, and since then Mr. Bissell has been the senior 



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member of one of Buffalo's great law finns, the style 
to-day being Hissell, Sicaril, Bissell iV farey. 

Although so much and so intimately .associated 
with a man now ot ciijjying the highest |)Osition in 
the gift of the American i>eoijle, Mr. Hissell reso- 
lutely abjured politics beyond what strong ]>art\ 
fealty required of him. .An earnest 

Democrat, always ready with time and . 

services to aid in the success of his jarty, 
he preferred the practice of his profession 
to the allurements of jwlitical life, in 
Mr. Cleveland's first term Mr. His.sell had 
the refusal of several honorable offices, but 
could not be tempted from his iiiirjiose to 
remain simply a lawyer. However, when 
his old |iartner was elected for a seconti 
term in 1HH2, and invited him into his 
labinet, Mr. His.scll felt that an honor so 
high anil unsought by him should not be 
]nit aside. Therefore he accepted the 
position of postmaster - general in Mr. 
Cleveland's cabinet, and made the most of 
the large opi)ortunitiis for usefulness that 
a cabinet jiortfolio presents. When, 
after two years of service, he resigned 
for purely i»ersonal reasons, he left behind 
him in the ]>osi -office de]>arlment a rec- 
ord for thoroughness, unfailing courtesy, 
e.xecutive ability, and i)ractical reform 
unsurjiassed by any of his predeces.sors. | 
The good will of men of both |>arties 
followeil him to his home. 

Mr. His,sell is |irominent in the social 
life of Huffalo. He is a memlier of the 
KulTalo Club, of which he was president 
in 18XS. In all jiublic movements his " 
counsel antl his influence are sought, 
and every worthy cause finds in him a 
sup|X)rter and a friend. 

rFRSO.y.il. CHROXOLOGY— Wilson Shan- 
non Bissfll 'loai horn at Xi~!i' Lon,/on, X^. }'., Df(cm- 
hfr.il, IS 1^1 : j^raJiiiUt-.i from Yak Collei^f in ISO!) : 
marrieJ Louise Stiirges of Gfnna, A'. )'., Fehrunry 
6, ISOO : was adniitU,/ to the har at liitfa/o in 1871 : 
was presidential fUitor-al-lan^c on the Democratii 
ticket in ISSS : was postmaster-general, 189.1-05. 

GCOrOC JSlCl!?tCiU i>a remarkable example of 
the rapidity with which a young .\nierican can rise 
to positions of high res|)onsibility when ability and 
favoring fortune go together. His school days were 
brief, ending when, at the age of fourteen, he left 
one of the Buffalo ])ublic schools, and entered the 
service of the Courier Comiwny as offi<e lioy. Thai 



was the beginning of his career, and there was little 
indication or jiromi.se up to that time of what the 
fiiture was to l»e. Succe.ss came mar%elously soon ; 
for in five years the office boy had l)ceome sui)erin- 
tendent, and in three years more, on the death of 
Chas. \V. M( Cune — or less than a decade from the 




H7IJSOM .s /!/.■..>/ //. 

time when the lad of fourteen entered the establish- 
ment — he was elected jtresident of the <om]>;iny. 
From the foot of the ladder he had gained the top- 
most roimd. 

Rapidly won >i,. .v:v< im|)Oses u|ion him who wins 
it a greater t.xsk than that which rests H|K)n the man 
whose rise is slower. In sustaining the large res|K)n- 
sibilities that he .assumed as president of the Courier 
Com|)any, Mr. Bleistein has made evident the |K3s- 
session of (pialities that explain and justify his mete- 
oric advancement. .As a busim-ss man he has mani- 
fested enterprise and wisdom in the man.igemeni of 
extensive affairs ; while in public relations he has 
made his ]X)sition and abilities a jiositive influence 
for the welfare of the communitv in whii h he livi-s. 



ME.y OF \Kir VORK^irF.STKKA SECT/ON 



While he has not been active in ])olitics in the 
lower sense in which that term is often understood, 
he has taken a decided stand in jjolitical matters, 
and one which, from his position at the head of the 
company that publishes the leading Democratic 
newspaper of I'uffalo, has contributed much to the 




GEORGE ni.ElSTEIX 

well-being of his fellow-citizens. That stand is for 
pure government and home rule in home affairs. 
When the Home-Rule Democracy of Erie County 
sprang into existence in 189;j, to battle with the 
influences that were committing the municipality and 
county to the power of a corrupt ])olitical machine, 
Mr. Hleistein was elected president of the organiza- 
tion. The effect of the movement was felt in state 
as well as in local politics, and to it belongs much of 
the credit for the victory won for good government 
at the polls in that year. Mr. Bleistein has never 
sought ])ublic office, and the only office which he has 
held is that of trustee of the City and County Hall in 
|}uffalo — a position that he occupied for seven years, 
four of which were s])ent as chairman of the board. 



Mr. Bleistein has furnished many i)roofs that he is 
a good citizen of Buffalo. Projects for advancing 
the interests of the city have always met with warm 
sympathy from him. He has given generously of 
both his means and his time and influence to such 
enterprises. .-^ny movement with a benevolent 
object is sure to find in him an ardent 
supporter. 

Mr. Bleistein is bv nature one of the 
most social and companionable of men. 
Thus it hap])ens that he has many friends, 
and is a member of many clubs, .'\mong 
the social organizations to which he be- 
longs are the Buffalo Club, the Saturn 
Club, and the Country Club (of which 
he is president ), all of Buffalo ; the Man- 
hattan Club of New York city ; and the 
Jekyl Island Club. He is a .32d degree 
Mason. 

Mr. Bleistein is [iresident of the Asso- 
ciated Press of the State of New York, 
and a director of the United Press of 
the United States. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY — 
George Bleistein 'coas /win at Buffalo 
December 6, 1861 ; graduated from the 
public schools, after speiuiing two years at 
a German school : entered the service of the 
Courier Company, in Buffalo, in 1S76, 
becoming superintendent of the company in 
1881 and president in 188 Jf ; married Mrs. 
Elizabeth ] Veils McCune of Buffalo April 
28, 1880 ; was chosen president of Home- 
Rule Democracy of Eric County, N. Y., 
in 18.9.1. 



Ibenrv M. S5rcn&cl i^ one of the 

younger law\ersaii(l politicians of Buffalo 
who have taken an active and intelligent 
interest in the affairs of the city. Although of 
Cerman descent, he was born in Buffalo, and was 
educated in the ])ublic schools of that city. His 
course of study was completed in 1H7-"?, and he was 
then called upon to choose his calling in life. To 
the young man just entering the arena of action in 
this way, the future presents many and varied possi- 
bilities. 'I'he world of business, with its inten.se 
activity, wide opportunities, and splendid rewards, 
calls 1()U(11\- to him to cast in his lot with its follow- 
ers, while the various jjrofessioiis offer their counter 
attractions with compelling force. Mr. Ikendel, 
notwithstanding the obstacle of insufficient scholasli< 
preparation, chose the study of law, and resolved to 
make actual work and training in a practitioner's 



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office take the jilace of a law school. 'I'his plan he 
succes-sfully pursued, acquiring a knowledge of the 
law under these adverse conditions in about the 
.same time that some law schools retjuire. He 
remained one year in the office of Hawkins & 
Fischer, and completed his studies in the office of 
Delavan F. Clark. Realizing the fact that in the 
rase of young men a successful practice of the law is 
most easily obtained through a connection with some 
attorney already prominent, Mr. Hrendel formed a 
co|mrtnership with deneral James C. Strong in the 
fall of 187!t. The firm was most successful, and 
conducted much imiwrlant litigation. In the year 
1S!»1 this i»artnership was dissolved \>\ mutual con- 
sent, and Mr. Brendel has since carried on his ex- 
tensive practice alone. 

Mr. Hrendel has always been actively interested in 
Ke|)ublican ])olitics, and has served hi> 
|)arty for a number of years as member 
of its executive committee, where his I 
counsel and advice are much sought and 
are always valuable. While serving on 
this committee, he was chosen treasurer 
for three years, on account of his stri( t 
integrity and business and financial acu- 
men ; and he handled the funds of the 
organization in a manner highly satis- 
factory to the [jarty managers. He has 
three times been nominated for the state 
a.ssembly, but, living in a district strongh 
Democratic, he has been as many times 
defeated. These defeats he takes cheer- 
fully and philosophically, realizing that 
the man who can say, " 1 have never held 
a political office," has esca|)ed many of 
the discomforts of life. 

Mr. Hrendel is a member of St. 
Stephen's Kvangelical Church, and takes 
great interest in its work. Inheriting 
from his (lerman ancestors that love of 
music for which the race is .so famous, he 
l)elongs to the Harugari, the Teutonia 
Maennerchor, and other singing societies. 
He can claim much credit for the mag 
nificent results accomplished by the Cer 
man -.American musical .societies — one ol 
the noteworthy and creditable features 
wherein Buffalo is pre-eminent among 
the cities of the ICmitire State — where 
the divine art is rationally mingled with 
domestic and social enjoyments, and with that 
genial Teutonic ;^emuthliihkfit that seems at pres- 
ent im|)Ossible to the less gregarious and more 
egoistic, nervous Yankee. To the Teutonia Maen- 



L 



nerchor, the chief among these societies, Mr. Hren- 
del has devoted his time and energy without 
stint ; and in other ways as well he h.ns con- 
tributed liberally of Iwth his means and influence 
to the advan< ement of the musical art and the 
(iiltivation of a sound musical taste in the city 
of Buffalo. 'Thus, with greater effectiveness than 
by more pretentious agem ies, has he hel|»ed forward 
and develo|K.-d that true urban civili/ation whit h 
has made the (Jueen of the Lower l.aki-sa city of 
cosmopolitan culture. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— llfiiiy //'. 
liifiulfl 7i'<i.< horn at Buffalo Dfiemhfr 10, IS.'n : 
was fitiicatfif in Ihf Buffalo f'ul>li( schools : liftman 
the study of law in IS7.'>, ami 7oas ailmittfil to the l>ar 
in /anuaiy, 1S70 ; loas nominatfil for the state assnn- 
I'ly in ISfid, 1SS7, ami l.fSO. 




/ir.xKV n: hrexdf.i. 

30bU C. J5rvant, while earning a handsome 
( omiK-tence for l)im>clf, has devoted his life to the wel- 
fare of others. .\s president of the Bryant & Stratton 
Buffalo Business C"ollege he has contributed no small 



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share to the growth and prosperity of Buffalo, by 
the business training given at his institution to 
a host of young men, man\' of whom have become 
leaders in the business world. He can, therefore, 
look back upon his life with a degree of satisfaction 
that falls to the lot of comparatively few. Of good 




JO/I\ r. JIRV.IXT 

old Knglish stock, Mr. Bryant was brought to this 
country early in life. His education was begun in 
the common schools, and after a two years' course in 
the academy at Norwalk, Ohio, he determined to 
study medicine. For three years he devoted his 
entire time and all his energies to the study of that 
noble profession, and graduated from the Cleveland 
Medical College in 1X46. 

I'or the next ten years he was known as Dr. Bry- 
ant. His field of labor was in Amherst, Ohio, and 
here he was widely known and honored, both as a 
man and as a physician. Many a ])rofessional man 
has found, after a few years devoted to what he had 
expected would be his life-work, that there were 



opportunities for remunerative usefulness in directions 
altogether unthought of. Such was the case with 
Dr. Bryant. It was in the fall of 1856 that he came 
to Buffalo and entered into partnership with his 
brother, H. B. Bryant, and his brother-in-law, H. 
D. Stratton, who had established business col- 
leges in Cleveland in l.S.")3 and in 
Buffalo in l.S,")4, which w^ere to become 
links of a chain of similar institutions 
afterward located in forty-four cities of 
this country and Canada. These places 
of business training became famous as the 
Bryant & Stratton business colleges. To 
the projectors of these schools it was evi- 
dent that here was an unoccupied field. 
Voung men had no opportunity to acquire 
a knowledge of business methods except 
by a slow course of training in .some office 
or store ; and even then they were not 
likely to gain an insight into the theory 
and practice of business so comprehen- 
sive and accurate as modern conditions 
demand. From the first it was the in- 
tention of Messrs. Bryant and Stratton to 
make their course of study cover not only 
the theory but also the practice of mer- 
cantile methods. How successful these 
business colleges have been, thousands 
of young men, who have gone forth 
from them equipped with a practical 
knowledge of Inisiness methods, can 
testify. 

Since 1860 Mr. Bryant has been pres- 
ident of the Buffalo college, and under 
his watchful care the original system 
has grown and expanded until it has 
apparently reached the stage of perfec- 
tion. Yet it has never been Mr. Bryant's 
habit to be satisfied with what was alread) 
accomplished. His motto might well 
have been "Progress," .so clo.sely has he lived up 
to that principle. 

No author of practical text-books on bookkee]>- 
ing and commercial law ranks higher than Mr. 
Bryant. He has given a great deal of time and in- 
telligent thought to the preparation of his books ; 
and the fact that they have a large circulation all 
through the United States and Canada, and arc 
favorably known even in foreign countries, is an 
evidence of their great value. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G ) -—John Collins 
Bryant -dms born at Ehley, Gloiicciterihire, EiiglanJ, 
Daanbcr 21, 1821: attemlal tlic AWjctrll- (0.) 
A(ailt'iny t7C'0 rears, ami stiiilicil nicdirinc three rears. 



.I/A.V OF .y/CII- »V)A'A-/CA.S/AA'.V SEC/VOX 



fCraduiUin^ from the ClnelanJ MeiUcal ColUj^f in 
ISJfG ; inarrifd llatiiiah .1/ Clark of W'aki-maii, O.. 
Afay Jl, IS.') I ; pradicfii his profession at Amherst, 
O., 1S47-56' .■ cam f to Buffalo in IS.'tfJ, ami formed 
a partnership with //. Ji. Bryant and II. D. Strat- 
ton for the eoniiiitt of tmsiness (olle;^es ; has been presi- 
dent of the Bryant ^ Stratton Buffalo Business 
Collex''- <iii,;- I'iao. 

S. Ii>OU0lJli> Cornell i^ tlu- head of onuof the 
licst known ,uiil (ihk^i i.iniilies in Hiiffalo. lU- is a 
I'aniiliar figure on the streets of the city, and is 
one of the most popular men in its society. He is a 
gentleman in the best sense of the word, always 
courteous and aflalile, ever kind and considerate in 
his hearing toward others. Mr. C"ornell was liorn in 
Fairfield county, Conn., but early in life came to 
Huffalo, where he, and his father before 
him, were identified for many years with 
the progressive business interests of the 
city. Mr. Cornell hatl the good fortune 
to be ei|uipi>ed for his life-work with an 
excellent education, begun at home, con- 
tinue(J under the care of able and watchful 
tutors, and finished ( scholastically speak- 
ing) at Hobart College, Ceneva, N. V., 
whence he graduated in 1860. Supple- 
mentary stiifly brought him the degree ol 
A. M. from the same institution in lK(i:{. 

Immediately after his graduation he 
began an active business career with his 
father, S. ('•. Cornell, who was a leading 
manufacturer of white lead — a l)usiness 
with whi( h the name of Cornell wasa.s.so- 
ciated for a long period. His connection 
with the manufacture of this im])ortant 
product wa.s interrupted for some time 
that he spent in Colorado as an agent for 
the examination of gold mines. In this 
specialty he was eminently successful, and 
in 1M(J8 he published, as a result of his 
observations, a valuable lamjihlet entitled 
• 'Prospects of ( lold Mining in Colorado." 

As .Mr. Cornell's father desired the aid 
of his son in his rapidly ex|)anding busi- 
ness, hitherto conducted under his own 
name, the young man returned from Col- 
orado and ilevotcd himself to the interests 
of the firm, which thus acipiired the style 
of S. (1. Cornell & Son. The firm was 
so known until lX(i7, when it was reorganized .i.s the 
Cornell Lead Com|>any. I'nder this style the busi- 
ness was successfully carried on until I'^HM. when Mr. 
Cornell retired from ai-tive pursuits. 



.Mr. Cornell early interested himself in the National 
Ciiard of the State of New York, anil long and faith- 
ful service therein must lie placed to his credit. In 
this connection he may be referred to as colonel, 
since that w.is his rank for a long time. He enliste*! 
as a i>rivate in the 74th regiment, in whi« h he .soon 
Ix-'came a noncommissioned ofticer. The attention 
of Brig.ndier (leneral William F. Rogers was called 
to the faithful young officer, who was thereu|K)n 
given a staff appointment .-ls junior aid-dc-camp. 
.Mr. Cornell remained on the sUifl' of (ieneral Rogers 
for fifteen years, while that officer was a brigadier 
general and afterwards a m.ijor general in command 
of the 4th division. .After serving through various 
subordinate ranks, Mr. Cornell won the |)osition of 
assistant .idjutant general and ihief of staff with the 
rank of colonel. This |)osition he retained until the 



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s. noi'iu.A.s roff.y/:/ f 



reorg.xni/ation of the National Ciuard and the abolish- 
ment of divisions. 

.Mr. Cornell is |)os.ses.sed of much histrionic talent, 
and would imdoubtedlv have made a brilliant success. 



26 



MEN OF NK]r YORK— WESTERN SECTIO.X 



had he adopted the stage as a profession. Buffalonians 
have had the pleasure on ninncrous occasions of see- 
ing him in the entertainments of the Buffalo Ama- 
teurs — an organization that has acquired no little 
fame by reason of the finish of its performances and 
the high social standing of its members. For the 
former of these distinctions great credit is due Mr. 
Cornell, for he has been the stage manager of the 
organization from 1872 to the present time. 

PERSONA L CHR ONOL O G Y— Samuel Doug- 
las Cornell teas bom at Gleiiville, Conn. , December J, 
18S9 ; graduated from Hobart College in 1800 ; mar- 
ried Lydia Hadfield of Buffalo January 29, 1862; spent 
about three years in Colorado, 1862-Olf, as agent for the 
examination of gold mines ; took part in his father^ s lead 
business for tiL'o years after graduation, returned thereto 
in 1864, and remained in the business until 1888 ; served 
on the staff of brigadier general, afterwards major gen- 
eral, William F. Rogers, in command of 4th division, 
N. G.,S. N. Y.,for fifteen years, becoming assistant 
adjutant general and chief of staff, with rank of colonel. 



"CClilUam Carv>l Gornwell has done much to 

si)read abroad the fame of liuffalo, for pre.ss dis- 
Ijatches often quote " W. C. Cornwell of Buffalo" 
as making a speech or reading a paper on some live 
topic before a gathering of bankers of state or 
national importance. Mr. Cornwell is known as 
one of the leading bankers of the country. Indeed, 
David A. Wells includes him among the six best 
conservative authorities on financial subjects, the 
other five so distinguished being David W. Stone, 
William B. Dana, William Dodsworth, Edward 
Atkinson, and Charles B. Fairchild. The fact is 
that Mr. Cornwell is a thorough master of the theory 
as well as the practice of banking, and when he 
speaks or writes on these subjects he is sure to have 
an attentive and appreciative audience. 

Mr. Cornwell is thoroughly modern in his methods 
and ideas, and at the same time thoroughly sound. 
The best illustration of the truth of this is founii in 
the great growth of the Bank of Buffalo, of which 
he was for fifteen years the cashier, and in that of 
the City Bank of Buffalo, which he organized in 
\KS'l, and of which he is president. 

When Mr. Cornwell became cashier of the first- 
named bank it employed a few clerks, and used one 
room for the transaction of its business. When he 
left the bank it had a staff of thirty-five clerks, and 
was so cramped for room that it had been trying for 
some lime to obtain a site for a building of its own. 
During his administration the business of the l)ank 
increased over 600 per cent, and its surplus earnings 
became greater than its capital, while its deposits 



amounted to more than §4,000,000. In lSil2, Mr. 
Cornwell withdrew from active connection with this 
bank, and organized the " City Bank, Buffalo, N. Y." 
This bank began operations in the spring of 1893 in 
the face of universal business depression ; but the 
fall of the same year found the City Bank with 
deposits of 81,000,000, all accumulated within six 
months and during a panicky season. These facts 
certainly speak volumes for the skill of Mr. Corn- 
well as a banker, and for the confidence that the 
business men of Buffalo have in him. He was one 
of the organizers of the Buffalo Bankers' Association 
in 1881, and has been its secretary from the start. 
It was largely- through him that the clearing house 
was formed in 1889, and made a part of the .Asso- 
ciation. He was the first chairman of the clear- 
ing-house committee, and held the position for three 
years. During that time he perfected two most im- 
portant undertakings. One was the making of 
clearings on a ca.sh basis instead of by draft ; the 
other was the banding of the banks together for the 
issuance of clearing-house certificates. This was 
effected in 1890 upon Mr. CornwelTs forecast of 
coming danger. The banks at that time pa.s.sed a 
resolution for joint action, and all machinery was 
arranged for clearing-house certificates. The possi- 
bility of using these promptly saved the city from 
impending disaster on the fatal 2(ith of June, 1893. 
The resolution of 1890 ran as follows : 

" In view of a possilile money crisis at any future time, the 
r>anks, members of this Association, for the purpose of sustain- 
ing^ each otiier and the business community, do herel)y resolve. 
That : .K committee of tive be elected, as hereinafter provided, to 
receive from Hanks, members of the Association, bills receiv- 
aijle and other securities to be approved of by said Committee, 
who shall be and are hereby authorized to issue therefor to such 
depositing Banks loan certificates not in excess of seventy- 
tive per cent of the securities or bills receivable so deposited 
(e.vceptin case of United Slates Honds), and such ccrtilicates 
shall be received and paid in settlement of balance at the 
Clearing House; the obligations given for such certificates to 
bear interest at the rate of six per cent per annum."' 

In the larger field of state, national, and interna- 
tional banking, Mr. Cornwell has won a renown that 
might well be the envy of an older man. He took 
a very active part in bringing pressure to bear upon 
congress to secure the repeal of the purchase clause 
of the Sherman act. It was he who prepared forms 
of petitions, and sent them all over the country to 
lianks, which in turn obtained the signatures of their 
customers, and forwarded the petitions to Washing- 
ton. These collectively became known as the 
"Buffalo Petition." Mr. Cornwell's addresses and 
writings on financial subjects evince clearness of com- 
prehension, soimdness of view, and strength of logic. 
Among his writings are a pamjjhlet on " Free 



.\r/:\ OF .\/:ir voKK^whsTERx sect/o\ 



Coinage"; an address before the American liankers' 
Association in 1M!)1, on " Canadian Hank Currency," 
in which he [winted out the errors in our own sys- 
tem, and predicted the disasters of two years later ; 
]japers on "Currency Refonn anil Bank Cinula- 
tion " and "The Cold Standard," both rankini; 
hij^h among American economic writings; 
and " The Currency and Hanking I^w of 
Canada," a digest of the laws of Canada, 
recently jjublished by (i. I'. I'utnam's 
Sons. 

Mr. Cornwell was one of the founders 
of the New York State Bankers' .Xs-socia- 
tion, and was its first presiilent. So highly 
were his efforts in behalf of the institu- 
tion and of sound money appreciated by 
his as.sociates, that he was elected an 
honorary member of the council of ad- 
ministration. He has also been vice 
))resident for New York state of the 
.American Bankers' .A.s.sociation ; and in 
1XH4 he was elected a member of the 
executive committee for three years. 

Banking, howe\er, tioes not occujiy 
all of Mr. Cornwell's time. He is an 
artist of much ability, and a plea.sant anil 
discriminating writer on art topics. He 
studied art at the Julien school in Paris, 
and was a \)\\\n\ of Lefebvre and Houlan- 
ger. He has produced many charming 
sketches and some work of a more am- 
bitious character that has been highly 
praised. Mr. Cornwell has a summer 
home at Kast .Aurora, seventeen miles 
from Buffalo, where he and his wife have 
surrounded themselves with everything 
that artistic natures can desire. 

J'E/iSO.XAL L'HRONOL OGY — 
William Caryl Corn-iocll 7oas horn at 
Lyons, N. Y., August W, IS'tl: atUnJfil the f>uhlic 
schools of Buffalo : marrieJ Marian //'. I.oomis of 
Buffalo 0(tohfr !), lS~.i ; leas cashifr of th( Bank 
of Buffalo, 18~~-92 ; organizfd the City Bank of 
Buffalo in 180 J, ami has been president thereof since ; 
was made the first president of the Ne7v York State 
Bankers' Association in J8O4 •' «'"■>' president of the 
Buffalo Society of Artists, ISU^-Ot; .- 7('as a member 
of the executive committee of the American Bankers' 
Association, ISOIfHii ; has been Fund Commissioner 
of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy since ISSft. 

CbarlCS lU. CUSbmail i-s an example of a 
cla.ss of men fortunately by no means rare in our 
countrv — men whose .ictivity and usefulness begin 



early in life, and continue unceasingly to develop. 
Like many another high-minded youth, Mr. Cush- 
man left .school to enter the army at the time of the 
Civil War. The fact that as a l>oy he was willing to 
forsake the easy and pleasant avenues of civic and 
buNiness life for the far ninghfr |i;uhs of military 




n/t.iii.u I th'Vt I oKxw 1:1 / 

activity, promised well for his character and for his 
chances of huccess in any business to whi< h he might 
devote himself. He served as drummer boy in the 
.■\rmy of the Cumlierland, and marched with Sher- 
man to the .sea. Service and sacrifice of this kind 
are never without their reward. The self-reliance, 
energy, and fortitude develo|)ed in camp life cannot 
fail to be valuable acijuisitions to thi- character of 
any man ; and these i|ualilies, when develo|ied early 
in life, as they were in .Mr. Ciishman's case, are 
likely to l>e |)crmanent an<l most valuable character- 
istics of the man. 

Soon after the close of the war, .Mr. Cushman 
found an op|)ortunity to |>ut his ability to the test in 
the service of the I«nke Shore iV Michigan Southern 



2S 



AfEX OF .\Eil' VORk'—U'ESTERX SECTIOX 



railway. He must have stood the test excellently, 
for three years after entering the service of this cor- 
poration he was appointed to the office of general 
agent at Cleveland. This position he held for eight 
years — from 1S72 to 1880. While so engaged, Mr. 
Cushman came to see the manifold advantages that 




CH.IKLES n: CUSHMAX 

might result from an a.ssociation of railway -car inter- 
ests. The project appeared both desirable and jirac- 
ticable, and in 1880 Mr. Cushman organized the 
Railway Car Association. At this time the promi- 
nence that Buffalo was destined to attain as a great 
railroad center was already foreseen by the more ob- 
servant railroad men, and by Mr. Cushman among 
others ; and Buffalo was made the headcjuarters of 
the asso<:iation. There are branches in the principal 
cities of the United States. Of this association Mr. 
Cushman has been president and general manager 
since 1880. 

Some active business men seem to find no field too 
large for their capacities, no work too burdensome 
for their energies. In business, as in scholarship. 



most men must specialize in these days of ever 
widening knowledge. But the vigor of the capable 
business manager overflows in numerous channels, 
and many kinds of business cognate to his special 
pursuit benefit by the diversity of his talents. Mr. 
Cushman's career admirably illustrates this statement. 
He is president of the Columbian Equip- 
ment Company and president of the 
Standard Iron Works, both of Chicago, 
and stockholder and director in several 
other companies. He served on the staff 
of the commander of the Grand Army 
when General Fairchild wa.s commander 
in chief. 

Mr. Cushman has found continual rela.x- 
ation in a great and constantly increasing 
devotion to Masonry. Rarely does an 
active man lack an avocation, and often 
the success and distinction that he wins 
in his chosen means of relaxation are 
|)arallel to his business attainments. That 
such has been the ca.se with Mr. Cush- 
man, and that he has found both pleasure 
and honor in his avocation, we may infer 
from the fact that in September, 189-i, 
he was crowned a Sovereign (Irand In- 
spector General of the ood and last degree 
of Masonry. 
* PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY — 

^^ Charles Werks Cushman was horn at 

H Cleveland, O., August 31, 1848; at- 

^^ tended the Cleveland pihlic schools and 
' the Roekford {III.) High School; spent 
two years in the army, ISOJ^-Oo : married 
Georgie L. Do ran of Chicago March 18, 
1873 ; entered the service of the Lake Shore 
a^ Michigan Southern railway in 1869, 
and toas general agent of the company, 
1872-80 : organized the Raihoay Car 
Association in 1880, and has been president thereof 
since. 



30SCpb p. IDUMCW comes from good old .New 
Hampshire stock. In every ([uarter of the globe and 
in every country the New Knglander is found. As 
merchant and banker, as inventor and discoverer, as 
navigator and explorer, the Yankee is to the front. 
.\ man is what his ancestors have made him, in 
([uality, but the particular form of development is 
determined by circumstances. This fact explains the 
inborn integrity and conscientious course jairsued in 
the affairs of life by Joscjih V. Dudley. 

.After a youth among the hills of the old (Iranite 
State, with only such educational advantages as the 



,I/A.V or XKir VOKK—WKSTERX S/-:C77i)\ 



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country schools and Pembroke Academy could give 
him, he l)egan a business career that has culminated 
in a success so marked that he is recognized as an 
ideal ty]x; of business man. Mr. I)udley came to 
Buffalo in IKoH, anil emlarkeii in the foundry busi- 
ness, continuing the same for three years. He then 
formed a [artnership with J. I). Dudley and M. I'. 
Dudley, the firm lieing Dudley & Co. and the busi- 
ness that of oil refining. The entire management 
was under the direction of Jose|>h 1*. Dudley, and the 
firm was very siicces.'iful. In 1«H2 the oil business of 
I hidley & Co. was merged with that of the great Stand- 
ard Oil C'omixiny of New ^■ork. the HiifTalo business 
l>eing known as the Star Oil Hram h : and since thai 
time Mr. Dudley has lieen the general manager of the 
Standard Oil fomiiany's vast interests in Huffalo and 
western New York. I'robably no man among the 
many able managers who direct the affairs 
of the greatest corporation in this < ounty, 
stands higher than Joseph 1'. Dudley. 

It is but natural that a successl'ul man 
like Mr. Dudley should be engaged in 
many enterprises, for profit, for |)leastire. 
and for religious, educational, and phil- 
anthro|)ic jmrijoses. He is identified with 
many of the important institutions of 
Buffalo. He is a trustee of the Krie County 
Savings liank with as.sets amounting to 
S20,llll(l,tKI(l : director in the American 
Kxchange and Hydraulic lianks : and 
director of the Kllicott Siiuare Coniiiany. 
now erecting the greatest otfiie building 
in the world. 

Mr. Dudley loves his church. He is 
vice president and treasurer of the l^fay 
ette Street Presbyterian (.'hiirch Societ) . 
and has done as much for that church as 
any man ever identified with it. He has 
had charge of its music for a great num- 
lier of years, ami has an abiding interest 
and faith in the musical as well as the 
theological end of the chur< h. He has 
always shown great interest in musical 
matters, having been identified with the 
Buffalo .Musical ,\.s.sociation since its or- 
ganization, as director or as president. 
Mr. Dudley has lieen connected with 
most of the leading institutions of Buf- 
falo, and in IKiio was |)resident of the 
Buffalo Library. He is actively interested 
in the Historical Society, and is president of the 
board of managers of the State Hospital for Insane. 

He is pre-eminently a society man ; that is to say, 
he is an intelligent man, who is iVind of his fellow 



crLattirv.-s, and lovis to Ik: with them. He is a mem- 
l)erof the leading crlulisofthecity. HchaslK-en presi- 
dent of the Buffalo Club, and is now a director ; he 
is vice president of the Kllicott C"lub ; he isadir>.ctor 
of the l-alconwocnl CMub, and meml)er of the Country 
Club, l.ilieral Club, Otowega Club, and several 
others. He is a generous giver to the |>oor, and to 
the l)enevolenf institutions of the city. Few men 
are more popular, and no man has a keener sense of 
humor, a greater fund of anecdote and ex|)erience, 
and a livelier ap])recialion of the good things of life 
than Joseph 1'. Dudley. 

PF.RSOXAI. CHRONOLOGY— Joseph PiUs- 
bury Dni//fy ivtis horn at L'aiuiia, X. //. , Xorrfmhfr 
21, IS-iJ ; attftiiieJ (ounlry i(htH>li, aiiJ j^raiiimUii 
from Prmhroke ( X. //. ) Aaidftny in IS')2 : marritii 
Marx /•'. I'luierhill of Com-ont, A/ass., in 1S')4 : 




JOSEPH p. nrni.F.Y 

niirjeJ to flu fit /o ill IS.'iS : cnxat;/:/ in thr oil- re fining 
business from ISC I until 1SS2 in the Jinn oj Dutilfy 
iS* Co. ; has been manager of the Star Oil ( Buffalo ) 
flninrli of the Stani/ar,/ Oil Comf^my sinff ISSJ. 



?,0 



.\n:x or .y/ar vokk^ivest/crx section 



■fccnrv IP. ]ElUCl*SOtl »as bom in the old Bay 
State town of Lynnfield, of the good New England 
stock that makes leaders everywhere. He prepared 
for college at the famous Phillips Academy, Andover, 
Mass., and distinguished himself at Rochester Uni- 
versity by taking the senior essay prize. 




//A'AAM /'. /iMZ-lA'SOX 

He began his pedagogic career in 1S71 as teacher 
of Greek and Latin in the State Normal School at 
Potsdam, N. Y. In 1X74 he came to Buffalo as prin- 
cipal of the cla.ssical department of the Buffalo High 
School ; and in 1H.S8, upon the resignation of Pro- 
fessor Spencer, who had held the [jrim ipalship of the 
school for twenty years, Mr. ICnierson was ap|)ointed 
to that very responsible position. His work there 
<|uickly gave promise of striking success. Arou.sed 
by his efforts, the school alumni became enthusiastic 
over the jjroject for the enlargement of the school, 
jtetitions were circulated among the citizens, and the 
city wa.s induced to build an addition, costing nearly 
8(i(),0(»(), to the old school building. The growth 



of the school during his administration was remark- 
able, for during the ten years that he occupied the 
princi]3ars chair the number of pupils increased from 
three hundred to a thousand. But his greatest suc- 
cesses were not of this material sort. He exerted 
himself to create among the students a sentiment in 
favor of order, and they were thus led to 
res])ect the rights of others in the school ; 
and oppressive and repressive measures 
were seldom necessary. In opposition to 
mechanical and bookish methods, he 
sought to arouse an enthusiasm for investi- 
gation and original work, and the schol- 
arship of the school was materially 
im])roved. His morning talks were a 
feature to which many of his pupils look 
i)ack as one of the happiest and most 
])rofitable experiences of their school life. 
It was his custom to give an informal 
talk, at least once a week, to the assembled 
school on some historical subject (sug- 
gested, perhaps, by an anniversary), or 
on current matters of interest in the out- 
side world. In this way the boys and 
girls obtained definite and available in- 
formation that they found most useful. 

.\ppreciating his devotion to the cause 
of education and his entire fitness for the 
office, the RepuV)lican party in ISil'i nom- 
inated him for superintendent of schools 
of the city of Buffalo. He was elected, 
and began his new duties January 1, 1893. 
( )ne of his first reforms was the introduc- 
tion of more modern text-books in Knglish 
and in other subjects. He also turned his 
attention to that important branch of pub- 
lic instruction, the ]jriniary schools, and 
apijointed a cai)al)le woman to oversee this 
whole work of primary teaching. The 
evening schools of the city had fallen sadly 
into disreijute, owing to their general inefficiency. 
Superintendent Emerson took these in hand with em- 
inent success. He reduced their number from twenty- 
two to twelve, and placed them in charge of thoroughly 
([ualified teachers: and as a result these schools have 
become most poinilar, and valuable opportunities 
for self-improvement have been given to all who 
choose to embrace them, while the cost of maintain- 
ing the schools has been materially reduced. Super- 
intendent Emerson is an indefatigable worker, and 
labors incessantly in his office, in teachers' meetings, 
and elsewhere. He is a Na])oleon of organization, and 
the wonderful system inaugurated by him in the Buf- 
falo ]jut)lic schools is worthy the study of the educator. 



.1/A".\' or SEW VONK— WESTERS SECTIOS 



:n 



In the meantime the scant leisure of so Imisv a 
jirofessional life has l)een fruitl'iil of sii|i|)lementary 
achievements. A |»a|K;r on " Ijtin in High Schools," 
read at the 1><(*1 session of the State 'leachers' Associa- 
tion, piiMished liy Hanleen of Syracuse, is a nuister- 
jiiece among educational monogra))hs ; as is also his 
'• Kducation of the I'hilil," an address delivered l)e- 
fore the public school teachers of Buffalo. '• \ Sum- 
mer in Kuro|K.'," a collection of letters, written 
originally for the Buffalo Cinirifi\ is his bree/y con- 
tribution to travel literature. 

Brofe.s.sor Kmerson is a meml)er of the Baptist 
( hurch ; of the .Alpha Delta I'hi, I'hi Beta Ka)>|)a, 
and Masonic fraternities: of the Buffalo Historical 
So<icty and the .So< iety of Natural .Sciences ; and of 
the Liberal flub, the University Club, and the 
Saturn Club (all of Buffalo). 

PERSONA L CUR 0X0 L OGY — 
//twiry /'. Einenoii 7i'ii.< horn at L\>infi</i/, 
Mass., January 1 1, ]S^7 : ^radualfil from 
riiillips Acadfiny, Anihr,<er, Mass., in 
IStil , an-.f from Roiltfsler University in 
IS71 n>it/i the ilei^ree of A. li., reeeivini^ 
t/ie (/ei;ree of A. M. from the latter insti- 
tution in IHlJf ; married Mary A. Estey 
of Miililleton, Mass., Aui^usl J^, ISlJf : 
came to Buffalo in the same year as teacher 
of Greek and Latin in the C 'entral //i,i;li 
.Schoo/, of 7vhich he 7i'as appointed principal 
in 18SS ; 7i'as elected superintendent of edu- 
cation of the city of Buffalo in ISO J, takin;.:, 
office January 1, lSf).i,for a term of three 
years ; was re-elected to the same position 
in Xtn'ember, 1805. 



l£^^Vt^\ IflCmfnO ha-s devoted his 
life tu ncwspaiicr Hurk. He has not held 
office, |>olitical or other, nor hxs he .sought 
it. He is a ty|»e of the journalist who 
resjjects his profession ; who finds in it 
the op]>ortunity for high usefulness to his 
fellow-men : who brings to it his best, 
allowing no distraction to come between ; 
and who does it, and himself, honor. 

In news|)ai)er work, in a degree greater 
than that of most professions, the useful- 
ness of the worker de|»ends uiwn the 
breadth of his training. Mr. Fleming 
laid the foimdation of his professional 
career in a university education, and sup- 
plemented this with systematic study after gradua- 
tion. Leaving college with the degree of H. .\., he 
aftenvard attended law lectures, and received from 
his alma mater in 1.S7-"! the degree of M. A. To his 



college training he added later the education that 
comes of travel, devoting eighteen months to 
Kuro|x;an sight-seeing. Since then the education 
received from books and from travel has been finely 
rounded out by the education in practical affairs that 
journalism so effectively provides. 

.Mr. i-'leming's news|)a|K-r life began in the Uni- 
versity of Miihigan, where, in his junior and senior 
years, he was one of the editors of a <'ollege |>a|)er. 
To this exi)erience he added, while still in college, 
the more practical training involved in corres|>on- 
dence for the Detroit Post. Immediately upon 
graduation he foimd a berth u)Kjn the J'oil as a 
reporter: in the winter of 1H7<I-71 he had charge 
of the telegraph desk of the Detroit Trihune ; later 
in 1(<71 he ilid ^ihi i:d reiK)rlin!,' fur tlic- Iillir ilii«i 




in various |»arls of Mi< higan, afterward doing general 
news|>a|)er work lor the Kalama/oo TeUj^raph and 
the Jackson Citizen as well as for the Trilmne. Thus 
he had a thorough training in different branches of 



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MF.X OF .XKlf VORK—li'ESTERX SFCT/O.X 



his profession before lie went to l-lurope. On return- 
ing from abroad, he went to Washington, D. C, 
and became the Washington re])resentative succes- 
sively of the New York Journal of Commerce, of the 
New York Commercial Bulletiti, of the Detroit Free 
Press (from 1875 to 1S85), of the St. I.onis RrNihlic 




JAMES GILBERT EORSVTH 

(from 1881 to 1885), and of the Buffalo Courier 
(from January 1, 1877, to 1885). Thus by easy 
stages his way led to the editorship of the Buffalo 
Courier. 

The fruits of this extensive training are apparent 
in Mr. Fleming's work as a newspaper man. On 
the one hand, he looks upon affairs with the breadth 
of view of the scholar. ( )n the other, he pos- 
ses.ses the practical advantage given by a remarkably 
wide ac(iuaintance with public men — an acciuaint- 
ance gained during a ten years' residence at the 
national capital. The combination of these two 
elements explains, in large measure. Mr. Fleming's 
succes.s in the editorial chair. 



Whilj his temper might be described as that of the 
scholar, it must not be .supposed that Mr. Fleming 
takes no interest in politics. On the contrary, he 
seems to find, and rightly, in ])olitics the field of the 
highest usjfulness of a journalist. In his editorial 
work he exhibits a judicial nature. He considers 
coolly and deliberately, and when his 
resolution is made carries it out fearlessh' 
to the end. He treats political matters 
with a view, not to their temporary and 
superficial a.spect, but to their deeper 
relations and significance. .As might be 
supposed, his work has been on the side 
of good government, of honest elections, 
and of political independence. He has 
believed, and preached, that the right 
thing is the best thing in the long run. 

PEJiSOiYAL CHR ONOL O G Y — 
Eihoiii Fleming was horn at West Lebanon, 
Intl., December 11, 18^7 ; graduated from 
the University of Michigan in 1870 ; en- 
gaged in neiospaper 7i<ork of various kinds 
for several Michigan papers until 187-3 : 
after spending eighteen months abroad, went 
to Washington as correspondent of New 
York, Detroit, and St. Louis newspapers, 
and of the Buffalo ' ' Courier ' ' .• married 
Harriet L. Stone of Kalamazoo, Mich., 
April 20, 1881 ; has been editor of the 
Buffalo " Courier" since June 1, 1885. 



3ames Gtlbert jforsptb exhibits 

the type of man in which singleness of 
purpose and tenacity of determination are 
exemplified in a marked degree. Half- 
way mea.sures are unknown to him. His 
methods are direct and thorough, and he 
devotes to every task such time as may be 
needed for its pro])er and final execution. 
Born in Buffalo .\pril 17, 18;^'2, he 
went West at an early age, his boyhood being 
spent in Kenosha, Wis. Here he received the 
usual common-school education, but restlessness to 
iiegin the more definite work of life caused him to 
apprentice himself at the age of fourteen to the hard- 
ware firm of Marshall & Phelps, where he learned 
the trade of tinman. After serving out the most 
of his apprenticeshi]) in the true old-fa.shioned style, 
he was releasetl by the di.ssolution of the firm and 
went to (leneva, Wis., where he worked for a few 
months at his trade before coming to Buffalo in 
1852. .\fter determined effort he secured a position 
with Pratt & Co., then the leading hardware firm of 
this section, with whom he remained until Januarv 



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I, 1H56, when he accepted a position with Sidney 
Shc|>ard iV Co., and was admitted to |artnership in 
Dcccmhcr, lH(iO. He has since devoted himself 
with unfaltering energy to the ever increasing inter- 
ests of this well known house, whose business ojK'ra- 
ations now extend over the entire country. 

He wa.s married on the 10th of March, 1857, to 
Mi.ss Jane Kli/abeth Dodge of Hu(Talo. He was one 
of the foun<lers of Christ Church, later incorporated 
with I'rinitv. 

PEHSO.y.lL CJJKOXO/.OGV—Jiimfs Cil- 
hfrt Forsyth was horn af Buffalo Af>ril 17, IS-iJ : 
Ti'iis filiicaUil ill the piihlic sfhooh of Kt'iioslui, II'i'm. : 
inanitil Jaiii- Elizahelh Doils^e of Jiiiffalo Maiih to, 
IS.'i 7 : entered the sen-ice of Sidney Shepan/ <b' Co. of 
Biiffah in IS.'iH, and ho< /- '< ., f<aitner in the tirtn 
<in,e ISOO. 

GCOrilC 5. OatCbCU has never 
seen an idle day since he became old 
enough to know what real work is. He 
belongs to the class of men who are 
happiest when they have most to do, and 
who justify the [aradoxical saying, " If 
you want a thing done ipiickly, take it to 
a busy man." Mr. (iatchell is best 
known as a railroad man of wide exjjeri- 
ence and of great ca|)acity ; but his 
earlier military lareer is worth recalling. 
He went to the front with the 3d Penn- 
sylvania cavalry, was present at the taking 
of Petersburg anil at the surreniler of 
l.ee, and was mustered out of .ser\ice 
.\ugust 7, IHfi.), as sergeant major of the 
.">th Pennsylvania cavalry. This army 
career was his first serious venture in life, 
and may safely be regarded .is his first 
success. 

Soon after the war, he acceptetl an op- 
portunity to go out on the preliminary 
line of the HufTalo i\: Uiishington rail- 
roail as a rodman. This was the beginning 
of his connection with railroads. The 
HufTalo & Washington railroad, which 
afterward becann.- the Hiiflalo, New V'ork 
& Pennsylvania, and which is now the 
Western New York vt Pennsylvania, was 
designed to oi)en up a new territory for 
RufTalo, and its construction w.xs watched 
with much interest. .After taking i harge 
of the construction of four inili-s of this road in 
lM(;(i-ti7, Mr. (latchell went to .Mi(higan, where he 
ran the lines and had charge of (art of the con- 
struction of fortv miles of a road that ran from 



Crand Rapids to Muskegon. He then returned to 
this state, and ran the lines of the Rochester \- 
State Line railroad in l«70and 1M71. 

When work was resumed on the HufTalo & Wash- 
ington railro.-i<l he was made assistant engineer, an<l 
in 1M72 was made chief engineer. Prom this time 
Mr. (latchcll was identified exclusively with the 
development of the railroad system of western New 
N'ork and northwestern Pennsylvania. .Among the 
lines with the construction of whi< h he w.xs inti- 
mately lonnecietl were the Olean, Hradford A: War- 
ren (narrow gauge), from Olean to State Line, and 
the Kendall \- Kldred, from Kldred, N. Y., to Hrad- 
(bril, Penn. These roads tap|)ed the oil regions, then 
rich, of southwestern New \ork and northwc-stern 
Piniisv K;inia. and iiltimatelv became feeders lor the 




,:i nk-i.l- s I. I T( HI I I 

HutTalo, .New \ ork \ PeniisyUania railroad. The 
markedly excellent work that he had done in con- 
nection with these lines and the undoubted talent he 
had shown in the management of large interests, leil 



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MJi.y OF .V/CIf Vi'iKK—li'F.STER.X SECT/OX 



to his appointment in 1879 a.s general superintendent 
of the Buffalo, New York iS: Pennsylvania railroad. 
For ten years, through several changes of manage- 
ment, he held this resjionsible jjosition, discharging 
its trying duties with rare sagacity and executive 
ability. Mr. (Jatchell left the railroad business in 
1889 to become the general manager of the Buffalo 
Elevating ('om])any. 

When the charter of the city of Buffalo was re- 
vised with a view to correcting many existing evils, 
the department of public works wa.s created under the 
control of three commissioners. This department has 
charge of all municipal construction, paving, street 
cleaning, water works, and public buildings, and is 
responsible for the proper expenditure of a large sum 
of money annually. When the first commission was 
created in 1892, Mayor Charles F. Bishop appointed 
Mr. Gatchell as the only Reiniblican member of the 
board. Mr. (latchell's long experience in dealing 
with important interests and with large bodies of 
men wa.s of the utmost value to the commission, and 
it was not long before he became known as the 
" working member" of the board. 

Socially Mr. (latchell is a most companionable 
man. He is a leading member of the Buffalo Club. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G Y— Gcorxr Sami/el 
Gatchell was horn at Whcatjield, N. Y., January 16, 
ISJ/jf ; attended the Lockport Union School until 1863, 
when he moved to Philadelphia : enlisted in the 3d 
Pennsylvania cavalry in June, 186 4, and sensed until 
the close of the war ; came to Buffalo in 1860, and 
en«;a};ed in railroad surveying ; was appointed chief 
engineer in 1872 of ivhat is no7v the Western New 
York &' Petmsylvania railroad, and was general super- 
intendent of that company, 187.0-8.9 ,■ married Sarah 
A'/. Ketcham of Buffalo October 15, 187 Jf ; was 
appointed a commissioner of public works of the city 
of Buffalo January 1^, 1802, for a term of one year, 
and was reappointed January 4, 1893, for three years. 



5amC!5 Jfraser GlUCft, if the law were not 
liis first tliouglu, might be one of the foremost liter- 
ary workers of the day. Indeed, as it is, his contri- 
butions to literature have been such as to give him 
high rank in that ilitficult s])here of attainment. He 
is a strong, vigorous writer, and the products of his 
pen are characterized by a literary finish that is rarely 
found outside the work of i^rofessional authors of re- 
])Ute. But the law has l)een his chosen profession ; 
and he has no reason to complain that his choice has 
not brought him substantial and deserved rewards. 

Horn at Niagara Falls in 1852, Mr. Cluck at- 
tended the common schools of that famous city, 
then a mere village. This was su])plemented by 



courses of study at the grammar school of 1 )rummond 
ville, Canada, at Upper Canada College in Toronto, 
Ont., and at Cornell University, from which he was 
graduated in 1874, standing at the head of his class, 
and receiving the highest honor of the college — the 
Woodford prize. He was chosen president of his 
cla.ss, and has been re-elected to that office at every 
subse(iuent meeting of his class. 

Mr. Cluck, after acting as editor of the first daily 
newspa|)er at Niagara Falls, the Niagara Falls 
Register, turned his attention to the law. He 
came to Buffalo, studied in the office of Laning e\: 
Willett, was admitted to the bar in 1876, and formed 
a partnership with A. P. Laning and Daniel H. 
McMillan in 1877. After the death of Mr. Laning 
the firm became successively Creene, McMillan & 
(duck (T881-87J, McMillan, (iluck & Pooley 
(1887-!»n), and McMillan, (lluck, Pooley c^: De- 
pew (1890-18 — ). During all these changes the firm 
has been celebrated for its successful care of large 
corporate interests, which it has made its specialty. 
Railroads have sought its guidance, and among its 
( hief clients have steadfastly been the great \'ander- 
bilt interests represented in the New York Central, 
the Lake Shore, the West Shore, the Michigan Cen- 
tral, and other railroads entering Buffalo. 

As a trial lawyer in railroad cases, Mr. Cluck 
stands pre-eminent in his profe.ssion. His ability was 
recognized by his selection some years since to fill 
the chair of the law of corporations in the Buffalo 
Law School, a branch of the University of Buffalo : 
this ]josition he still occupies. 

Mr. (Huck has been active in numerous fields of 
labor. Like many lawyers, he has paid no little at- 
tention to politics, and during the exciting cam|)aign 
of 1884 he organized the Central Republican Club 
of Buffalo, which attained a membership of over 
2, ")()(), and which was the largest campaign club ever 
formed in Buffalo. He is a favorite camjiaign 
speaker, and has made many addresses in Buffalo and 
throughout the state. Mr. (lluck is a brilliant and 
powerful orator, and has made on occasions of im- 
portance many addres.ses on literary and scientific 
topics that have won for him the highest |)rai.se, as 
regards both matter and manner. These addresses 
should receive permanent form in one or more vol- 
umes. Mr. Gluck is much sought, also, as an after- 
dinner speaker. 

Service of the highest importance in the cause of 
education has been rendered by Mr. Cluck during his 
long term as a trustee of Cornell L'niversity. Andrew 
1). White, formerl\- ])residcnt of the university, 
has jjublicly given Mr. (Jluck mui h of the credit 
for the establishment of the svstem of scholarships. 



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whereby poor and meritorious students receive uni- 
versity aid for four years to the amount of 82">i( a 
year. The report on the condition of the university 
made l)y Mr. Clhick at the end of his first year a.s 
tnistee seemed entirely to dissi|)ate the dis.satisfai'tion 
that haii prevailed extensively theretofore amoni; the 
alumni. Mr. (Uuck had al.so much to 
do in stimulating the establishment of the 
school of philosophy at Cornell, which 
is now recogni/.ed as one of the most 
comjjlete in the country. When I'resi ; 

dent White retired, .Mr. (Iluck was prom ^ 

inently mentioned as his succes.sor. I'his \ 
was justly regardeil at the time as a | 
striking tribute to the ability Mr. Cluck ' 

had displayed in all his relations with the 
institution. While curator of the Buffalo 
I.ibrarv, Mr. (Ihuk made a collection of 
nianuscriiits, autograph letters of famous 
men, historical documents of value, and 
rare books ; and just before the close of 
his term of office he surprised and de- 
lighted the trustees of the library by 
presenting to them for the institution 
what many deem the most valuable col- 
lection of the kind in the lountry. .\s 
])resident of the Cirosvenor Library, Mr. 
Cluck has ])ursued a liberal and pro- 
gressive policy, and has done much to 
increa.se the public u.sefulness of that 
institution. The i)rivate library of Mr. 
Cluck is i)robably the largest private 
library in the city, and is ilistinctivelv 
rich in history, philosophy, science, and 
the cla.ssics of Creete and Rome. 

PF.RSOXAI. CHROXOLOGY— ' 

Jaiitfs /•'rasfr Glitik 7oas horn al Xiiv^iiia 
Falli, X. )'., April 2S, IS'j': atlen.le.i 
common schools. Upper Canaila Collcj^e, 
at Toronto, On/. , amf Cornfll University, graiiimtini; 
therefrom in IS", J, : stuilifil hnc in Jiiiffnhi, and was 
lu/mitteit to the bar in ISlC .■ married F.fiie D. Tyler, 
ilaii^^hter of Professor Charles Af. Tyler of Cornell 
UniTcrsity, June lit. 7.S77 .• was electeJ a tnistee of 
Cornell in l.fS.i : rcas curator of the Buffalo Library 
from ISS't to JSST : has been president of the Gros^'enor 
f.ihrarx, Hujfalo, since /.s'.SVJ. 

CbarlCS 11U. GOOJ>\>Car is a shining example 
of the fac t that a good lawyer makes a good business 
man, for he has attained marked success in both 
callings. The word failure has no place in any 
dictionary he ever conned. He has been successfid 
in great undertakings because he is ready to take 



advantage of all op|>ortunities that present them- 
selves, and to make op|iortimities where they do 
not already e.\ist. Shrewdness and courage go hand 
in hand with him ; and these, coupled with an 
industry that knows no ri-si, have won for him 
unusual success. 




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J.iStKS l-R.\SI-R Cl.riK 

liuffalo first knew Mr. Coodyear a.s a resident in 
IMliS. His education was obtained in the common 
schools of Krie county and at the Cortland ( N. V. » 
.\cademy. When he came to Huflalo he began the 
study of law in the office of leaning & Miller, con 
tinning the study with John C. Strong. Admitted 
to the l>ar of Krie county in 1M71, he immediately 
liegan the practice of law. For the first few years 
he was alone, but in INT'i he formed a i>;irtnershi)) 
with .Major John Tyler, which continued for two 
years. L'ntil 18M'J he was again without an as.soci- 
ate, but in February of that year the finn of Cood- 
year & .-Mien ( Henry V. .Mien ) was formed. C rover 
Cleveland, becoming governor of the state of New 
York laniiary 1. 1 •<"<■!. r.-iir,..! iV.,,,, il-.- Ii« r.nn ,,t' 



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MEN OF \EIV VOKK—ll'KSTKRX SECTIOA' 



Cleveland, Bissell & Sicard, and Mr. (loodyear 
joined that firm. Thereafter, for four years, the firm 
of Bissell, Sicard & (loodyear was one of the most 
prominent in Buffalo. 

For some years Mr. Cioodyear was actively inter- 
ested in politics, and the Democratic jiarty in the 




( IIAKI.I-.S 11. GOODYEAR 

city and the state was always glad of his services in 
whatever form they could be obtained. He served 
the people of Erie county as assistant district attor- 
ney from January 1, 187o, until October 1, 1877, 
having been appointed to that office by the district 
attorney, Daniel N. Lockwood. When Mr. Lock- 
wood resigned to enter upon his term as representa- 
tive in congre.ss. Governor Robinson ajjpointed Mr. 
(loodyear to serve out the balance of the year. 
These were the only political offices ever held by 
Mr. Goodyear. He was, however, actively interested 
in the movement that resulted in the nomination of 
Grover Cleveland for mayor of i^uffalo and in his 
subse(iuent election to tliat oftK c. .\Ir. Goodyear 



had no small part in effecting the election of Mr. 
Cleveland to the office of governor of New York 
state ; and he did yeoman's service in .securing the 
nomination of (Governor Cleveland for the Presidency 
in 1884. Since his retirement from the law Mr. 
Goodyear has not been actively engaged in politics. 
In 1887, when he left the law, Mr. 
Goodvear associated himself with his 
brother, F'rank H. (joodyear, in the lum- 
ber and railroad business. The firm of 
F. H. & C. W. Goodyear was organized 
May 1, 1887, and has been the foremost 
factor in the development of the lumber 
industries of northern Pennsylvania. The 
firm's interests in that section are vast. 
With the enormous output of 130,()()(),00() 
feet of hemlock lumber a year, the Good- 
year brothers are the largest manufacturers 
of that commodity in the world. They 
have mills and works of various kinds 
throughout Potter county, Pennsylvania, 
and control many miles of railroads, which 
they have built to develop the territory. 
I'hese roads are known as the Buffalo iS; 
Susquehanna, of which Mr. Goodyear is 
second vice president and general man- 
ager, and the Wellsville, Coudersport & 
Pine Creek, of which he is vice president. 
With all his mammoth business inter- 
ests, Mr. (loodyear finds time for other 
things. He is a Mason, a life member of 
the Buffalo Library, a trustee of the State 
Normal School in Buffalo, and a member 
of the Buffalo Club, the F'alconwood 
( lub, the Saturn Club, the Country Club, 
the Lil)eral Club, and the Acacia Club. 

PERSONA L CNR ONOL O G V — 
Charles Waterhouse Goodyear was horn at 
Cortland, N. V., October 15, lSJ,n : com- 
pleted his schooling at the Cortland Academy 
in 1867 ; came to Buffalo in 1S6S ; 7vas admitted to 
the bar in 1871 ; married Ella Portia Conger of Collins 
Center, N. V., March 23, 1876 ; 7C'as appointed as- 
sistant district attorney of Erie county by Daniel N. 
Lochiwod, taking office January 1, 1875 ; 7('as ap- 
pointed district attorney by Governor Robinson to ffll 
an unexpired term October 1, 1877, holding office until 
January 1, 1878: retired from the practice of law in 
1887 to enter the lumber and railroad business 7oith his 
brother, Frank //. Goodyear. 



JObU C Graves has on more than one occa- 
sion shown the jjossession of those qualities that 
make the ideal citizen. I'carle.ss and resolute, 



ME.\ or x/:u- )(>A'A—H7-:s77-:a-x sect/ox 



actuated by no sclll.^h inotivi-s, ticterniinctl to <lo 
whatever is (or the l)est welfare of the i onuniinil) , 
swerved from that piiriiose l)y no < lanior of dema- 
gogues, — to him as much as to any one ]K.'rson liiiffalo 
owes its present improved form of government. 
During all the years that this lommimity struggleil, 
through the Citizens' Association, of which (General 
t; raves is president, for a reformed charter, he stood 
in the forefront, receiving the brunt of the battle 
and successfully beating back the spoilsmen, who 
fought for a retention of antiquated methods of 
munici|jal government because in them were the 
greater opportunities for personal and political profit. 
For that labor (leneral Craves finds recom|>ense in 
the gratitude of those of his fellow-citi/ens who 
place business above politics, and in the conscious- 
ness of having [lerformed an arduous task 
faithfully and well. 

(ieneral draves is a jirominent figure 
in the commercial and social ( irclts of 
lUitTalo. He was educated to be a lawyer, 
but practiced his profession for only a 
few years, from 1«()2 to IXti", with his 
father, K/.ra (iraves, of Herkimer, N. \'. 
A year in Tufts follege, near Boston, 
followed a preliminary training at Kair- 
field ( N. Y. ) Academy, and ])receded a 
year at L'nion t'ollege, Schenectaily, 
\. \'. His course was completed at 
Hamilton College, tlinton, N. Y., in 
lM(i2. when he received the degree of 
A. .\I. In December of the same year he 
was admitted to the bar. In IHfJT (leii- 
eral (iraves took up his residence in 
Kuffalo, engaging in business. He was 
active in commercial pursuits until 1874, 
when he was appointed clerk of the 
Superior fourt — a position that he 
fdled to the entire satisfaction of the 
judges of that important court and of 
the legal fraternity until l«S(i, when he 
resigned. (ieneral (iraves then turned 
his attention to business, having large 
jiersonal and trust interests confided to 
his care. He was one of the organ- 
izers of the Frontier Elevating Com- 
|ianv, and was president of the < omjiany 
from 1«86 to lS!t4. His greatest single 
interest is still in the grain -transfer and 
storage business ; for he is i)resident 
of the Kastern Klevator Company, which owns 
one of the largest and finest elevators in MufTalo 
harbor, renowned for the magnitude of its elevat- 
ing capacity. 



(Ieneral (iraves owes his litL- to twenty years' 
service in the National ( luard of the State of .New 
\ork. .\s colonel of the (>."»th regiment of Huffalo, 
he labored in sea.son and oul of .season to bring that 
organization to a high slate of efficiency. (Ireat ad- 
vances were made, not only in this direction, but also 
in the character of offii ers and men. He made |)Op- 
ular a service that had been regarded by too many as 
detrimental to those engaged in it, surrounding him- 
.self with men of his own high ideals and thoroughness 
of execution. When a \aiancy occurred in the 
)>osition of commandant of the brigade, (ieneral 
(iraves was, by rea.son of \as\. a»hievenients, the first 
choice for the position of general commanding the Xth 
brigade, including the (J.lth and 74th regiments in 
Huffalo and a number of sej>arate comjianies in western 




jn/i.\ r. CKArKs 

\ew York. He serveti in that ca|>acity until the 
demands of business comiH-'lled his retirement. 

The only munici|)al office that (ieneral (Iraves 
h.Ts held is that of member of the board of \at\. 



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AfEX OF XEIV YORK—U'KSTKRX SECT/OX 



commi.ssioners, a body which controls the eight 
hundred acres of i)ark lands in the city of Buffalo, 
and which, desjiite great pressure, rigorously excludes 
jjolitics from its management. He has served on 
that board for twelve years. 



of the Superior Court of Buffalo, lS74-''^'0' ; 7C'as />resi- 
dent of Frontier Elevating Company, lS8G-9Jf ; has 
been a ntcmher of the board of park commissioners of 
Buffalo since 1S8S : has been president of tlie Citizens' 
Association since its organization in 1889. 



AL/IERT IIAICHT 

deneral (Iraves is actively interested in the Llni- 
versaiist church. He is a trustee of the Church of 
the Messiah, Buffalo, and of the general conven- 
tion of Universalists of the United States. He is a 
-Ma-son of high degree. He has been Master of 
Herkimer Lodge, and of Washington Lodge, No. 
240, of Buffalo ; High Priest of Keystone ("hajiter of 
Royal Arch Masons ; is a member of Hugh de 
Fayens Commanderv, Knights Templars ; and has 
been invested with all the degrees of Scottish Rite 
.Masonry up to and including the .'{2d. 

PERSONAL ClIRONO LOGY— John Card 
Graves was born at Herkimer, N. Y. , No~c<ember 18, 
]8.i0 : attended various schools and colleges : loas ad- 
mitted to the bar in December, 1802 ; married Augusta 
C. Moore of Buffalo January 20, 186 ^ : was clerk 







Hlbert 1l3aiGbt enjoys a reputation 
second to that of no jurist in the state of 
New York. Practically his whole active 
life has been spent on the bench. Judicial 
honors came to him when he was only 
thirty years old. Promoted from the 
l)ench of the County Court of Erie 
county to the Supreme Court, he rose 
thence to the General Term, and thence 
to the Court of Appeals. If a high trib- 
ute were to be paid to Judge Haight, it 
would be necessary only to mention the 
facts already outlined ; for no man un- 
worthy of such honors could obtain them 
from the hands of his fellow-citizens. 
The record means that the laity as well 
as the legal profession were early im- 
jiressed by the pre-eminent juristic ability 
of Judge Haight. 

We hear much of the "judicial cast 

of mind." Sometimes the |)hra.se means 

I ! nothing. It ought to mean a great deal, 

■ and in judge Haight's ca.se it means all 

■ that the words imply. He has presided 
& at an untold number of trials of causes at 
^^ law, involving sums ranging from a trifling 
1^1 amount to millions of dollars : and many 
^^H |)rinciples of law have been adjudicated 
-^^ for the first time by him. Few judges 

can point to so satisfactory a record as 
can the subject of this sketch. His 
decisions have almost universally been 
looked ujion as utterances from which it were useless 
to appeal. His statement of facts is clear and be- 
yond dispute, his ajjplication of the law is direct and 
positive, and his deductions are characterized by 
the soundest logic. 

Possessing these traits in so marked a degree, it is 
no wonder that Judge Haight made rapid progress on 
the l)en(h. He was not even allowed to serve out 
his first term in the County Court, but was elected 
to fill the |)osition of a justice of the Supreme Court 
for the Xth judicial district, .\ppreciating the legal 
knowledge and the judicial capacity and learning of 
Mr. Haight, Clovernor (Irover Cleveland, himself a 
lawyer and a personal ac(|uaintance of Judge Haight, 
though of oi)posite ])olitical faith, made him an asso- 
ciate justice of the (General 'l\Tni of the Supreme 



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Court for the fifth deiartmcnt. Mr. Haij;ht has 
always l>een a man of intense activity, having that 
valuable faculty of doing a great deal without ap- 
[orent effort, though never without careful study and 
consideration. During his entire term of service on 
the (leneral Term he found time to holil occasional 
Circuit and S|>ecial Term courts. It is a significant 
fact that every apitointment that has come to him has 
heen from Democratic governors of the state, though 
juilge Haight himself is a stauni h KcpuMii an. 
When the second division of the Court of .Vpiieals 
was formed in order to clear up the work of the 
highest apiiellate court of the state, Ciovernor Hill 
named him as one of the associate judges of that 
court. He remained in this position until the di.s.so- 
lution of the court, when he was reajipointed to the 
(leneral Term by (lovernor Flower. There he re- 
mained imtil he was elected to the Court 
of .\ii|)eals on the Rejuiblican state ti« kel 
in lH!t4-. The Democratic i>arty of the 
Xth judicial district |)aiil him the high 
honor in IXHt), on the expiration of his 
first tenn of office in the Supreme Conn, 
of a joint renomination with the Reimb 
I i cans. 

For the |)ast twelve years Judge Haight 
has taken ]>art in the decision of from 
four hundred to five hundred <a.ses each 
year, and has written probably sevent) - 
five opinions every year. 'I'hese have 
l)een |)ublished in court reports and legal 
jiublications of all sorts, antl are fre<|iientl\ 
I iteil as authorities. 

The law is a hard mistress, and tho.se 
who win her smiles must hesitate not in 
her service. Judge Haight is a firm 
l)eliever in this truth, and his incisure i>i 
success on the bench h.xs lieen won 
through close ajjplication. The law is at 
once his work and his recreation : in it 
he fintis his |)roht and his pleasure : to it 
he gives the best there is in him ; from it 
he has received honors fairly won. 

Judge Haight is a member of the I'.uf 
falo Club and of the Fort ( )range Club oi 
Alban)-, where he is always a welcome 
visitor. 

PERSOX.-if. CUKOXOL OGY — 
Albert Haii^hl wai horn at Ellicolt-rillf, 
N. )'., Fehniary 20, ISi^ : <ifUn,ff<i iii< 
tficl schooli tin</ S/<rini^-i//f { X. >'. ) Aattlemy : 
married Ange/ine lla/rrs of West Falls, X. )'. , 
November 20, ISG^ ; was elected sutuessh'ely siifier- 
■,'ispr from tlif si-coiul -(•iinl of fliiffiilo in IS(lf). IS70, 



ami 1S7J, lOiinty jiiilge of Erie county in IST2, ami 
juitice of the Sufireme Court for the Hth fuilicial dis- 
trict in lS7(j ; loas re-elected Supreme Court justice 
in ISOO ; was appointed successively associate justice of 
the General Term of the Supreme Court for the fifth 
department by Goi'crnor Clei'cland in ISSIf, associate 
fudge of the second division of the Court of Appeals by 
Governor Hill in ISSO, and associate justice of the 
General Term ( again ) by Governor f'loioer in IS!»2 : 
uuis elected associate judge of the Court of Appeals in 
IS!!.',. 

tClilliam lU. 13ammOn^ has often iKt-n called 
to serve the inoplc of lu> i oimty in an offi( ial c.-i|>acity, 
becaii.se he has always l)een faithful to their interests. 

He was born u|)on a farm, and jtassed his early 
years there. He did the usual work of a farmer's 




nil 1 1 AM II II \M MOST) 



l)oy, went to the common s< h<Kils, such as a new 
country affords, anil after reaihing a suitable age 
walked six miles a day to get the l>etter advantages 
o(Tere<l bva "select " school. He closed his s( hool 



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MEN OF A'FAV YOKK 



n KSTKhW SFCTfON 



career liy a short attendance at Kredonia Academy. 
Before 1850 he tanght school in Pennsylvania ami 
Kentucky, and soon afterward went to Mississijjpi, 
where he turned his attention to the manufacture of 
lumber. Returning to his native county, he taught 
.school again for a few years. Afterwards he con- 
ducted a country store, studying law at the same 
time. He came to Buffalo to finish his legal studies 
u ith the law firm of Sawin & Lockwood, and was 
admitted to the bar in 1861 in that city. After 
practicing law for two years at Angola, N. Y., he 
returned to mercantile pursuits for several years at 
Brant, N. Y. He was elected to the office of magis- 
trate there; and for twelve years, from 1865 on, he 
wa.s a member of the board of suj)ervisors from that 
town, serving with the late Judge Sheldon and with 
Judge Haight, at present of the Court of Appeals. 

In military affairs Mr. Hammond's interest is best 
shown by his fourteen years' connection with the 
National (niard of the State of New York. He en- 
listed in 1852. He went with the 67th regiment of 
the National (hiard to Harrisburg, Penn., in 186;!, 
when I.ee's army was invading the state, and was 
on duty at Harrisburg when the battle of (Jettys- 
burg was fought. Mr. Hammond held a 1st lieu- 
tenant's commission while he was in the United 
States .service, and was honorably di.scharged after 
about three months' duty. After his return he was 
elected captain of comjjany C, 67th regiment, and 
held that rank when he left the militia service in 
1866. 

Mr. Hammond's poinilarity in Erie county was 
first shown in 1877, when he was elected county 
judge to succeed Albert Haight. He was twice re- 
elected, serving twelve years in that important office. 
From 18SI() until 1892 Mr. Hammond was a member 
of the law firm of Peck, Hammond, Peck & Hatch ; 
lor the next three years the style was Hammond iV 
Hatch; and in 1895 the firm became Hanmiond \- 
Werick. 

He has sjjent much time in travel, and has supple- 
mented the scant school advantages of his youth by 
wide reading and observation. He is interested in all 
church matters, and was a charter member, and for 
many years a trustee, of the Angola Congregational 
Church. He has been a member of the First Con- 
gregational Church of Buffalo since its organization. 
In all movements for higher citizenship and improved 
jniblic service his voice and influence have always 
been on the right side. He has long been a member 
of the Buffalo Civil Service Reform As.sociation, and 
he is a member of the Cood Covernment Club of 
the ward in which he lives. In jiolitics Mr. Ham 
mond has been steadfa.stly Republic an. 



Mr. Hammond's eminence in his ]jrofession and 
his social ])0siiion were not attained at a single 
bound, but rather came as a fitting reward to patient 
endeavor and continued achievements. He has seen 
Krie county change from a forest into a garden, and 
liuffalo has exjjanded under his eyes from a small cit}' 
to a metropolis. Throughout these years, in all his 
dealings with his fellow-men, he has been painstak- 
ingly honest and conscientious. This fact, more 
clearly than any other perhaps, gives the keynote to 
Judge Hammond's long and successful career. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— William //'. 
Hamnioiiit was born at Hamlnirg, N. Y., Nm'eiiil<cr 
.'f, IS-Sl : attended common schools and Fredonia 
(N. Y.) Academy: married Amy A. Htird of Evans, 
N. Y. , /;/ ISoJf, and Louisa A. Htird of the same place 
in 1861 ; laas admitted to the bar in Buffalo in 1861 ; 
7i<as a member of the National Guard from 1852 to 
1866 : 7Cias elected county Judge of Erie county in 
1877, and was re-elected in 1878 and in 188 J : has 
f>racticed hnv in Buffalo since 1890. 



Milliam IfJCligerer is a self-made man, hav- 
ing successfully applied his natal talents to the oppor- 
tunities of his circumstances. Though born in VVur- 
temburg, (Jermany, he is essentially an American. 
His school education, obtained partly in (Jermany 
and partly in this country, ended with his fourteenth 
year. His father, however, was a Lutheran minis- 
ter, poor in this world's goods, but possessing the 
character and cpialifications of his calling : so that 
while Mr. Hengerer's school days were few in num- 
ber, he had the great advantage of a sound home 
training, which is often more than equivalent to 
scholastic opjMrtunities. 

His family came to America while he was still a 
boy, and for twelve years he lived in Pittsburg, Penn. 
At the age of twenty-two he came to Buffalo, and 
entered the dry -goods house of Sherman, Barnes iV 
Co., as a clerk, at six dollars a week. From this 
humble beginning, by force of industry, jjersever- 
ance, and integrity, Mr. Hengerer has achieved his 
present position in the busine.ss, social, and political 
life of Buffalo. To call his success luck, would be- 
to disparage hard work, pluck, and honest)-. In 
1874 his worth and ability were recognized, and he 
was admitted to the firm, which was then known as 
Barnes, Bancroft & Co. This was the style of the 
firm for eleven years, when a new organization took 
place, and the name of the firm was changed to 
Barnes, Hengerer & Co. The death of the senior 
partner, and the expansion of business consequent 
upon the evolution of dry -goods houses into theniod- 
crn department stores, in time rciiuin-d a ditfereiit 



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organization; ami in 1 S!),) a joint-stock com|)any \va> 
formed, known as The William Mcngcrcr Comiiany, 
taking its name from the clerk who thirty-odd years 
before began on a salary of six dollars a week. 

Only once has Mr. Hengerer's business career 
lieen internipteil, and then there was a break of two 
years, when he was engaged in the more 
serious business of helping to put down 
the Rebellion. He had been in liuffalo 
.scarcely a month when the Civil War 
broke out, and I'resitlent Lincoln called 
for troops. He did what thousands of 
men to-day earnestly wish they had 
done — he enlisted as a volunteer soldier. 
Mr. Hengerer was an alien born, but he 
showed the true spirit of an .American 
|)atriot. He enlisted for two years as a 
member of the 21st regiment, N. Y. vol- 
unteers — the first regiment to go to the 
front from BulTalo. During its service it 
was jKirt of the .\nny of the Potomac, 
and shared in its battles and its triumphs. 

Retiirning home in ISfi.'l, Mr. Hen- 
gerer resumed his connection with Sher- 
man, Barnes & Co., and steadily devoted 
himself to their interests. His life, how- 
ever, has not been confined to the 
accumidation of wealth, to the neglect of 
his duties as a citi/en and a member of 
society. His time, influence, and money 
have been freely given to every commend- 
able object. In |)olitics he is a " war 
Democrat," and his counsel and assist- 
ance are invariably .sought by his |>arty 
associates. While he has uniformly de- I 

dined, owing to the cares of busine.ss, I 

to consider nominations for elective 
offices, he has ser\'ed the public for man\- 
years as |>ark commissioner, and as tnistee 
of the State Nonnal School. 

Mr. Hengerer is a member of the l-'nglish Luth- 
eran church, and in all the philanthropic movements 
connected with church work in these days his name 
is among those relied ujion for financial assistance. 
He is a Mason in high standing, having served as 
.Master, High I'ricst, Commander, and District 
Deputy Crand .Master. He has a life meml)ership in 
both the Buffalo Library As.sociation and the Buffalo 
Historical Society. He is a member, also, of the 
Liedertafel and ( )r|)he\is societii-s, and of the Buffalo 
Club. 

Mr. Hengerer finds diversion from business in 
travel, and has visited Kuro|ie several times for rest 
and recreation. I'nostentatious in his style of living, 



cordial in his friend.ship, prompt and progressive 
in business, he has won his place in Buffalo by 
the same <|ualities he dis|)layed when, at a critical 
time in the country's history, he donned the unifonu 
of a volunteer soldier of the l'nite<l States, and sac- 
rificed evervthini: to the call of iliitv. 




II //// i\f f/FVcr/ff-ff 

PF.RSOX.t/. C //A'C.'.\ a J- CH, ) — il /./.■./;.v //,»- 
i;frrr li'tis horn at Wiirtfinlmrt^, Gfrmany, .\fiir(li ^, 
ISSO : atUiiiieJ common schools : came to tht I 'nitfi/ 
States in ISif) ; sfncJ in thf I'nion Army, ISdl-tiS : 
marrifii Louisa Dufrr of Buffalo Sfptfmhrr ^J^, 
ISa.i : lias been f^irk commissioner of Buffalo since 
ISS'i, aii.l truster .'/ St.jtr X.'rm.i/ School since ISS'i. 

IHCltiOll Ik. tt0plUH5 - •' -■" of" 'lie Kmpire 
Slate. His t'alhcr. ( iciur.d Timothy S. Hopkins, 
li\ed for many years at (ircat Harrington, Mass., but 
moved to Krie county in lX(M>, and pun hasc-d a farm 
near Williamsville, where the subject of this sketch 
was born Manh '_'. \x\i\. 



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(ieneral Hopkins was appointed captain by (lov- 
ernor (leorge Clinton in 180.'?, major by Governor 
Lewis in 180(i, and lieutenant colonel by f Governor 
Tomkins in l.Sll ; and he served as Ijrigadier general 
under Major General Hall during the waroflSl'i, but 
resigned his commission when peace was declared. 




AEl.snx A'. /lOPk'fXS 

'{'he boyhood of Nelson K. Hopkins was spent 
upon his father's farm, where practical experience of 
many kinds supplemented the scant educational op- 
portunities offered by the district school. When 
only seventeen, he secured the position of clerk and 
manager to the contractors then building the Mac- 
adam road between Williamsville and Buffalo. In 
this position he had entire charge of the accounts 
with over 40(1 men. After the completion of this 
work, Mr. Hopkins again turned his attention to his 
education, and in 1X84 entered the academy at I'le- 
donia, N. V., where he remained two terms. He 
then sjjent two years at the Genesee Wesley an Semi- 
nary at Lima, N. Y. Before entering this school 
young Hopkins had been elected captain of a com- 



pany of militia at Williamsville, and while he was at 
the seminary his company was called out. Mr. 
Ho])kins immediately started for the front, where he 
enlisted in the L'nited States service with sixt)- of his 
men, and served in what was called the " Patriot 
A\'ar." He was stationed on the Niagara frontier, 
near the foot of Ferry street in Buffalo. 

He next entered LTnion College at 
Schenectady, N. Y., where his brilliant 
work and the high honors with which he 
graduated in 1842 gave promise of those 
i|ualities that were to be developed when 
he was to battle with the actual realities 
of life. Upon his graduation Mr. Hop- 
kins was elected to membership in the 
Phi Beta Kappa society — an honor con- 
ferred only u])on students of the highest 
standing. 

I'he legal profession has always at- 
tracted men of ambition and of keen 
and brilliant mind, and Mr. Hopkins 
made choice of it as his life-work. He 
entered the office of Potter & Spaulding, 
in Piuffalo, as a clerk, and in 1846 was 
duly admitted to the bar in the city of 
New York. Thus began the career that 
lias made him one of Buffalo's most 
honored .sons. Mr. Hopkins has devoted 
himself to the practice of law contin- 
uously since then, with the single ex- 
ception of four years spent at the state 
capitol, as comptroller. Mr. Hopkins 
has ever been a counselor rather than an 
advocate. Much of his practice has con- 
cerned the settlement of estates, the 
examination of titles, and the placing 
of investments — duties that fitted him 
well for the responsible position he fdled 
so brilliantly in the .service of the state. 
Mr. Hopkins has alwa)s been a staunch Republi- 
can. After several years of .service in Buffalo, as 
ward supervisor and as alderman, he was a|)pointed 
collector of internal revenue of the Buffalo district 
bv President Johnson in 18()(). In 1871, without his 
knowledge or consent, he was nominated for state 
comptroller, and was elected by a handsome majority. 
He was called to the administration of the financial 
de])artment of the state at a very critical period. 
I'weed and his accomplices were then in power, and 
they had .sadly disorganized the finances of the com- 
monwealth. The sinking funds had been despoiled 
to make good other appro|)riations, and in various 
wavs the comptroller's department was greatly in 
need of reform. Mr. 1 1 opk ins addressed himself to 



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4:5 



the task with the |)ainstaking care and unbending in- 
tegrity that have characterized his public and private 
career ; and, ha|)])ily for the good of the state, he 
was well ipialified for the work, both by natural ability 
and by legal training. His first annual re|)ort was 
greeted with ai)|>lause, both for its clear elucidation 
of the financial condition, and for the evidence it 
bore that a i;xiiiii- of retrenchment had replaced that 
of extravagance. That men of all i>arties appreciateil 
his services, was shown in lcS7:>, when he was re- 
elected to the office he had filled so well, notwith- 
standing the defeat of every other candidate on the 
Republican ticket. During his four years of office, 
S(i,5()(l,(l(M) that had been abstracted from the treasury 
in direct violation of the constitution was restored, 
and nearly S20,(ll)(»,(KMI of the .state debt was i>aid. 

At the expiration of his second term of 
office, Mr. Hopkins returned to HiifTalo 
and resumed his legal practice, which he 
has continued ever since. It is scarcely 
neccs.sary to say that he is a ])romineni 
citi/en there, and actively interesteii in 
the welfare of the city. He was one ol 
the organizers of the present paid Fire De- 
|)artment, and for ten years occupied the 
honorable position of fire commissioner, 
where his services were of a careful and 
conservative nature that guarded the best 
public interests. For many years he was 
the attorney and a director of White's 
Hank, now the .Xmerican Kx( hange Hank, 
of HiilTalo : and he has always been 
identified with the prominent local clulis, 
organizations, and .societies. 

PERSOXAL CHRONOLOGY — 
Xehon K. Hopkins 7i.'as born at ICii/iiinu- 
TilU, .\. Y., Miiich J, ISW: atlemifil 
Fredonia ( .^V. K ) Acaiiemy and II Vs/eyan 
Semimtry at Lima, A'. ) '. , and i^radnatrd 
from L 'nion Collei^f, Scheneclady, X. } '. , 
in ISlf^ : leas otlmitUd to the har at Xt-,' 
York city in JSj^d : married I^iuy Ann 
Allen of Buffalo in ISJ^S, and Louise 
Ann Pratt of Buffalo in ISoo : was alder- 
man in Buffalo, 1S0J-6<I : icas a/>/>oin/ed 
(olleetor of internal m'enue hy President 
Johnson in 1S06 : Jcas elected comptroller 
of the state of Neil' York in l.S'Tl, and was 
re-elected in lS7-t : has practiced law in 
Buffalo <iiu-e IS>,//. 

TiUUliam C. 1L'>0l•Ua^a\l ha-s made a success 
of life in more direi tions than are 0|)en to most men. 
He is a naturalist of distimtion, a taxidermist of the 



first rank, and a traveler and hunter of renown. I It- 
stands high as an author, and as a business man he 
has won an enviable |K)sition. 

Horn with a love of nature, which his early life 
did much to foster, he sought employment when a 
young man in the famous natural history esUiblish- 
ment of Professor Ward in Rochester, and there pre- 
[ared him.self for the work as a field naturalist in 
which he gained such distinction. His first venture in 
this line was in t'ulia and Florida, where he won his 
spurs as a naturalist by discovering and describing 
the Florida crocodile, a genus quite distinct from the 
alligator. His success gave im|K.'tus to the desire to 
enter richer, if wilder and more dangerous, lands ; 
and in 1H7(! he undertook an exi)edition to the West 
Indies and South .Vmerica. where he made a large 




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collection of strange fishes, lieautifiil birds, and hor- 
rible reptiles. On his retiiin he went to KuroiK-, 
and s]x.'nt some time in study in various mii.seiims of 
science and art. His next trip was to the Flast 



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Indies. This was ihe most extensive exijcdition Mr. 
Hornaday ever made, and la.sted nearly three years, 
during which he sent home the largest collection of 
specimens ever made in the Far Kast. His adven- 
tures in India, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula, and 
Borneo, have been given to the public in a book en- 
titled "Two Years in the Jungle," which was |)ub- 
lished in 1885, and ran through four editions. 

Mr. Hornaday returned to Rochester in llSTil, and 
three years later was appointed chief taxidermist of 
the United States National Museum at Washington. 
During the eight years in which he held that import- 
ant position, it is not too much to say that he stood 
at the head of the profession. Many of the recent 
advances in the taxidermic art are due to him. He 
introduced the present very popular method of 
mounting large ([uadrupeds in groups and placing 
them amidst their natural surroundings. Some of 
his work — notably the group of Imffalo which is 
such an ornament to the National Museum — has 
received the highest praise from the best authorities, 
and is a monument to his skill as an artist and his 
knowledge as a naturalist. 

In 1889 Mr. Hornaday projjosed the establishment 
by congress, on a grand scale, of a national zoolog- 
ical park at Washington, to lie under the control of 
the Smithsonian Institution. He was forthwith de- 
tailed by the secretary to formulate plans and present 
them to congress. He did this with so much success 
that in the next two years congress appropriated 
$'292,000 to carry out the scheme. Mr. Hornaday was 
appointed superintendent, and .served the commission- 
ers for one year in that capacity. When the park 
was finally placed under the control of the Smith- 
sonian Institution, Professor Langley insisted on 
changes in its plans so sweeping that Mr. Hornaday 
resigned his position, severed his connection with 
the government, and came to Buffalo. Here he 
became interested in real estate, and with four other 
operators formed a close cor])oration called the Union 
Land Kxehange, which has been the direct means of 
bringing a large amount of capital to Buffalo. 

As a writer, Mr. Hornaday has interested the 
public in many subjects. His story of life in the 
Kast Indies has already been referred to. He has 
written a work on " Taxidermy and Zoological Col 
lecting " that is a standard authority. His memoir 
on the " Kxtermination of the American Bison " (a 
government jiublication ) attracted much attention. 
His contributions to various jjapers and magazines 
are well known and popular. His recent novel, en- 
titled "The Man Who Became a Savage," which 
made its first appearance in the Illiistralfil Buffalo 
Express, possesses great merit and originality. 



The ;v:sthetic side ol .\lr. Hornaday's nature finds 
expression in an intense love for art. He is an ex- 
cellent judge of paintings, and has begun to form a 
collection of works by American artists only. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— William Tem- 
ple LLoniaday ivas barn near Plainfield, J/itl. , Deeein- 
l>er 1, 1S34 ; attended the public schools of Ktioxville, 
Jowa, Oskaloosa (Lotva) College, and the Lowa Agricul- 
tural College ; studied zoology, taxidermy, and muscology 
in Rochester and in various European museums ; trav- 
eled extensively from ISTo to 1S79, visiting the If 'est 
Indies, South America, and the Ear East, making 
zoological collections ; married Josephine Chamberlain 
of Battle Creek, Mich., September 11, 1S79 ; ivas 
made chief taxidermist of the United States National 
Museum in 1HS2 ; proposed the establishment and pre- 
pared the plans of the National Zoological Park at 
ll'ashington in /,S',S',V ,■ has been engaged in the real- 
estate business in Buffalo since 1890. 



IfjarVeS 5. 1bUr5 is a striking e.xample of the 
men whose capacity for work is such that they can be 
at once succe.ssful in business and actively interested 
in public affairs. He has been a thoroughly practical 
citizen, attending strictly to his private enterprises on 
the one side, and on the other a.ssuming his full share 
of the duties that we all owe to the couununity in 
which we live. One of the encouraging signs of the 
times in our country to-day is the steady increase in 
the number of liusiness men who are recognizing the 
fact that the state has a just claim to their services in 
some official capacity. It is in this way only that 
our jjolitics can be made clean and respectable. 

Mr. Hurd's father, Clark W. Hurd, was of Ver- 
mont stock, coming to Erie county in the '30's. 
He was one of the first settlers on the Buffalo Creek 
Indian reservation at Elma, where Har\ey Hurd was 
born. The latter's early life was passed upon the 
farm, and his early education was obtained in the 
district .school. To this was added an excellent 
training at the old Buffalo .\cademy and at Cornell 
L'niversity, from which he graduated in 1X72. His 
commercial life has been confined to the lumber 
business chiefly, in which he is at jjresent engaged in 
Buffalo, in comjiany with his brother, James T. 
Hurd, under the firm name of Hurd Bros. 

In 1S9() and 1891 Mr. Hurd was president of the 
Buffalo l.iunlier Exchange. He is a member of the 
Buffalo Merchants' lOxchange, and served for several 
years on the board of trustees of that institution. 
He is also a member of the Buffalo Builders' Ex- 
change. He is part owner of the Buffalo Planing Mill 
Company, which operates one of the largest and 
best e(|ui]iped plants in the I'nited States, and is vice 



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president of the com|»an\. Mr. Iliird is also a director 
of the ButTalo Loan, Trust, and Safe I)e|)Osit l"oni 
[(any, and of the l^niastcr Brick Yard t'oni|janv. 
He is a life nieml)erof the Buffalo Library Association. 

In |)ul>li( life .Mr. Hurd has made a good recoril. 
l-'ew men are able to manage many things well at the 
same time, l)ut .Mr. Hurd has shown 
ability as a legislator as well as in the 
walks of mercantile life. He was first 
elected to the legislature in 1H77, and 
.served altogether four years. His princi- 
|ial work in the as.seml)ly was in connei- 
tion with the Krie canal. For three years 
he was chairman of the canal committee, 
and directed his efforts towards se( uring 
the adoption of a constitutional amend 
ment making the canals free from tolls. 
His .services in this matter have not been 
forgotten in western New York. 

Mr. Hurd was a member of the legis- 
lature in IMHl, when the memorable 
resignation of .Mr. C'onkling from the 
United States senate, together with that 
of Mr. I'latt, unexpectedly rendered the 
election of two senators neces.sary. The 
keiniblican |arty, with which Mr. Hurd 
has been identified, was divided into two 
factions — one favoring the return of Mr. 
C'onkling to the senate and the other 
0|)])osing .such return. .\ long and bitter 
fight followed in the legislature. Mr. 
Hurd was a strong admirer of the New- 
York senator, and supported him to the 
end. This trait of ailhering to a friend or 
to a cause is a marked one in his character. 

Mr. Hurd is an ardent Reiniblican, and 
has taken an active interest as one of the 
managers of the |>arty in Lrie county. 
I'or several years he was chairman of the 
Republican general committee. He is at present a 
member of the Republican state committee, repre- 
senting the 'AM senatorial distric t, and i> a member 
of the executive committee of the state conmiiltee. 

In social life Mr. Hurd is eminently com|wnion- 
able. He is a member of the Buffalo ("lub and of 
the I'niversity flub, and is a .'J'id degree .Ma.son. 
While the cares of business leave little time for 
diversions, his life is not in any sense one-sided. 

PERSONAL ClfROXOLOGY— llannjclson 
lliini ~ii.>as horn ill f.lma, X. )'. , Fehniary JS, ISJ,U : 
was dfiiiiiUif 111 Ihiffitio ACitiifiny and at Comfll I'ni- 
versity, from which hf i;raiiuatf<i in Ifl-i; loas a 
member of the Nno York /e/^i statu re, 1,S7SSJ ; has been 
engageif in the himber bnsiness in Biiffah -iince tSSO. 



Bi. 1t>. tUtCblUSOn IS one of the men who 
make theujselves valuable in the community in which 
they live. Thoroughly imbued with the progressive 
spirit of the age, he is to Ik.* found in the front rank 
of those who are working for the material and moral 
welfare of the world. Lndowc-cl with large re- 




HAKi I 1 / /irKi> 



sources, he has mnnerous and varietl bnsiness inter- 
ests. I'niike many |)eople blessed with means, 
Mr. Hutchinson is liberal with both his energy and 
his money. No worthy c harit> ap|K.-als to him in 
vain ; no public movement that hits for its object the 
eradication of some jiolitical or moral evil need lac k 
his influence. He is a public-spirited c iti/en in the 
fullest meaning of the term, and he has made many 
l>ersonal sacrifices to ser\e his fellow - citizens. 
Sturdy in mind and pur|iose, no imworthy motive 
ever turned him from the [oth of duty. When his 
wav is seen clearly, it is pursued to the end, no mat 
ter what olistac les are to Ik.- overcome. 

Mr. Hutchinson's business life l)egan when he was 
eighteen vears old, ill health having forced him to 



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abandon a course of study preparatory for college. 
His first venture was as a partner in the firm of L. W. 
Drake & Co., provision dealers and pork packers. 
In the summer of 1S7-") their slaughterhouse at East 
Buffalo was burned, and the fire was followed by 
a dis.sohition of partnership. But so energetic and re- 




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sourcefiil a man as Mr. I lute hinson had alreaci)' shown 
himself to be could not long remain idle, and in a 
few months he had established an advertising agency, 
lo this he .soon added the job-])rinting business. 
Under his fostering care and wise management this 
business grew steadily and pros])ered exceedingly. 
Mr. Hutchinson continued it alone until 1890, when 
Harry C. Spendelow became his partner. This a.sso- 
ciation was unbroken until January 1, 189"), when 
Mr. Hutchinson retired, the Spendelow Printing 
Company succeeding \\. H. Hutchinson & Co. 

Mr. Hutchinson is interested in many business 
enterprises in Buffalo. He is a director of the 
Marine Bank, and a stockholder of the Bank of Buf- 
falo ; and serves as a trustee of the Buffalo City 



Cemetery. A number of fine business blocks, flats, 
and apartment houses have been erected b\- him. 
In many directions his influence is felt, and every- 
where his counsel and his energy of execution are 
desired and sought. He is a manager of the Church 
Charity Foundation of the Protestant P^piscopal 
Church in Buffalo, and is a life member 
of the Buffalo Historical Society, the 
Buffalo Orphan Asylum, and the Buffalo 
Library. No more cheerful giver is 
known to many charitable and benevo- 
lent institutions of the city, and he is 
always one of the first to respond to any 
special call for aid. As a loving memorial 
to his father, John Martin Hutchinson, 
and to his mother, Eunice Alzina Howard 
Hutchin.son, he has recently built the 
Hutchinson Memorial Chajiel of the Holy 
Innocents, which has been presented to 
the Church Charity Foundation. 

Men of Mr. Hutchinson's stamp make 
ideal public servants, and it is certainl\ 
to be regretted that he has found it im- 
possible to give the city as much of his 
time as his fellow-citizens would like. A 
Democrat in politics, he was yet elected, 
because of his ])ersonal popularity, to a 
seat in the board of aldermen for the old 
10th ward, the strongest Republican ward 
in the city. He served one term of two 
years. 

When John .M. Hutchinson died .\ugust 
17, 1886, there was a popular demand 
for the appointment of his son to succeed 
him as member of the board of fire com- 
missioners. No convenient op])ortunity 
to effect this came until F'ebruary 24, 
].si)l, when Mayor Charles F. Bishoji 
was pleased to make the a]j|iointment. 
The father had served the city for years with a single- 
ness of purpose and an unexcelled faithfiilne.ss, and 
it was felt that the son would do the same. The 
other members of the board at once paid a tribute 
to the father by choosing the capable son as their 
chairnian. Unfortunately the younger Hutchinson's 
(onnection with tin- I'ire Department ceased in two 
years, because he was compelled by ill health in his 
family to absent himself from I^uffalo for a consid- 
erable jjeriod of time, and he felt it unjust to the 
city to hold the position under such circumstances. 
He has still a keen interest in everything pertaining 
to the Fire Department, and the members of the 
force in all grades of service have a warm regard for 
their former commissioner. 



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Mr. iltitchinson delights in travel, and has visited 
all |jarts of the I'nilcd States and the j^reater |>;irt of 
Kiirope. 

Several fraternal organizations know V.. II. II ut. h 
inson as a brother. He is a menil>er of Aruieni 
l^andmark Lodge, No. 441, \- . Ik A. M.: Adytum 
Chapter, No. 'l'-Vi, R. A. M.; Keystone ("ouneil. No. 
20, R. iS: S. M.; Hugh de I'ayens (.'onimaiulery, No. 
."SO, K. T. ; Ismailia Temple, Nobles of the Mystic 
Shrine : and Orient Lodge, A. (). I'. W. 

J'ERSO\.4/. CHROXOI. OGY—E.hoar.Ulmi- 
iin/ Hulcliinson was horn at Buffalo March 7, IS'>.J ; 
atteiiileil various piiblU ami />riva/f schooh ; marrifil 
Jiaiiif Blanche Ganson of Buffalo Se/i/cmlicr Jo, 1S72 ; 
7oas alileniian from the old 10th icar.l, ISSSS.'/ ; 
loas appointed a Fire Commissioner Fehruarx i.',, 
1891, resigning October 3, 189S. 

Cbn5tian llvlnich "s one of liuf 

f.do's most enterprising citi/ens, and 
stands among the I'oremost on the list of 
men of Teutonic descent who have made 
for themselves fame and fortune in their 
atlo|)ted country. Mr. Klinck is a native 
of (lermany, where he received a gooil 
common-school education, and learned 
his trade as a butcher. The narrow world 
of Ciemian ])rovincialism, with its hope- 
lessness of any great success, proved too 
small for the ambitious lad, and at the 
age of seventeen he determined to .seek 
his fortunes in the new world. Accord- 
ingly he .set sail for .\meri( a, intending 
to settle in Cincinnati, ( )hio : but when 
he reached Buffalo he was unable to ]jay 
his railroad fare further, and, making a 
virtue of necessity, he sought work there, 
which he obtained at the niunifii ent rate 
of six dollars a month. .Notwithstanding 
this small beginning, his (Jerman thrift 
and industry enabled him, in six years, 
to ama.s.^ suffic lent i a|>ital to go into busi 
ness for himself: and from that time 
forth his ]>ath was always forward and 
upward. At first he conducted the busi- 
ness of a general butcher, but in 1H(;h 
he took up a si)e<ialty, o|K.'ning a pork 
lacking business that was destined to 
become one of the greatest establish 
ments of its kind in the L'nitcd States. 
From the start he had to contend with com|H-tition 
of the keenest kintl. There «ere wealthier and 
stronger firms which, had they l>een able, would have 
crushed the life out of the new concern : but it w.is 



based u|X)n the principles of business integrity, and 
an iron will was behind it. Few men could have 
been successful in this enterpri.se, but Mr. Klinck 
was one of the few. He was honest, industrious, 
prudent, far-seeing, and resolute ; and Ivcause he 
pos.ses.sed these chara( teristi«s, because he rejetted 
all offers to compromise or combine, l)ecause he re- 
fu.sed to be swayed from his original pur|)Ose, he won 
the battle, and is to-day one of the kings of |)ork 
|>acking in theiountry. His establishment is situated 
on Dejiol street, near William, in l-kusl Huffalo. The 
yards cover over eighteen acres, and the mammoth 
buildings are e<]uip|)ed with the most complete 
machinery and the most improved appliances. .Some 
idea of the magnitude of the business may be gained 
from the fact that between two and three hundred 




rumsTM.y ki ixck 

men are there employed, turning out a profluct that 
annually .imounts to over S:!,lll)(l,(l()(l. 

.Mr. Klinck has not only flourished financi.illy, 
but he has pros|»ered |)olitically .is well, so far as he 



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has found time for such pursuits. In l.S(i;j, yielding 
to the solicitations of his friends and neighbors, he 
entered the political arena as candidate for alderman 
of the old loth ward in Buffalo, and served his con- 
stituents faithfully for two years, when he retired. 
For nearly thirty years he remained out of jiolitics. 




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JiA'.ISTiS C. KMUIIJ 

but at the expiration of that time representative citi- 
zens waited upon him, and induced him to become a 
candidate for councilman ; and he was elected by a 
most flattering majorit). In this capacity Mr. 
Klinck has brought to the service of the public those 
rugged ([ualities of sterling integrity, steadfastness of 
purpo.se, and keen discrimination that have brought 
him success in private life. To be fair and just is 
the self-evident purpose of his action in all matters 
of legislation. Though at times others have differed 
from him and taken opposite grounds, none have 
ever impugned his motives or suggested for a moment 
that his intentions were other than the purest. 

Mr. Klinck is interested in many financial and 
business enterprises aside from those ininudiatel\ 



under his personal (ontrol. He is a director of the 
Citizens' Bank and of St. John's (lerman Orphan 
.\sylum, and is a stockholder in the Live Stock Ex- 
change and in the Crocker F'ertilizer Company. 

PERSONAL CHRO N OLOG Y— Christian 
Kliihk was Iwni in tlie Bavarian village of Sclionen- 
burg, Germany, Fel>ruary 6, 1833 ; nioveii 
I to the city of Zwcihrucken (also in Rhenish 
I Ravaria ) in 1SJ,0, where he learned his 

traiic as a Initiher : eame to America ami 
j settled in Buffalo in 1850 ; established a 
! pork-packing business in 1868 ; was alder- 
man from the l-ith ward, Buffalo, 1863- 
05 ; was elected a member of the Buffalo 
board of councilmen in 1898, and was 
j made president of the board [anuarv 6, 

I isnn. 

JEraStUS (I. IkUigbt attained his 
present high position in finance and 
|)olitics by reason of undoubted merit 
and ability. His ancestors were New 
Knglanders, of the revolutionary type, 
I his great-grandfather, Seth Cole, having 
moved from Chesterfield, Mass., to the 
' shores of Lake Erie near Dunkirk in 
180.). Mr. Knight's grandfather, Erastus 
Y Cole, was a volunteer in the war of 1812, 

4 ^ ^ and was present at the burning of the 
^mi city of Buffalo in 1X18. Mr. Knight's 
^^W^ own father was a substantial business man 
^H V of Buffalo, and very likely the son inher- 
^^t I ited some of his father's business capacity. 
^^^^ .\t all events, Mr. Knight's career shows 
^^^1 an unbroken chain of advancement such as 
"* unmistakably indicates some powerful and 

adeipiate cause in antecedent conditions. 
A thorough education was one of the 
factors of Mr. Knight's success. Having 
taken a course in a commercial college, he had a 
theoretical and practical knowledge of business 
methods before he entered active business. On the 
completion of his studies, he accepted a position in 
the wholesale house of Bell Brothers, produce com- 
mission merchants, of Buffalo. Later he broadened 
his experience with men and places by going on the 
road as a traveling salesman for the same firm — one 
of the finest schools of practical business knowledge. 
In l.S.Hd he started in l)usine.ss for himself, and became 
senior member of the firm of Knight, Lennox & Co., 
produce commission merchants, with whom he was 
successfully engaged for seven years. 

Usually a man is loath to change when once he 
has established himself in a profession or branch of 



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mercantile industry, lint Mr. Knij^ht contliidetl 
that the o|>|iortiinitics were {greater in a field different 
I'roni that first chosen by him, and in 1HH7 he with- 
drew from the t'oregoing firm, and embarked in the 
real-estate business. To this he added the occu|>a- 
tion of a builder in 1K!I2, when he funned a [lartner- 
ship with Oliver A. Jenkins, under the firm name of 
Jenkins iS; Knight. Mr. Knight is also a jiartner in 
the firm of Sloan, C'owles iV Co., proprietors of ex- 
cursion steamers and summer resorts. 

In j)olitics .Mr. Knight has been prominently iden- 
tified with the Republican |>;irty. Before the city of 
UufTalo wa.s redisiricted he was nominated for su|)cr- 
visor in the old 1 1th wanl, and was elected ; and two 
years later he was renominated from the new •i4th 
ward, and wa.s elected. He was ( hosen for a third 
time in IXJKi, serving as chairman of the l>oard dur- 
ing the session of 1HK4. In the fall of 
that year he received the nomination for 
comptroller of the city of HiitTalo. and 
was elected by a round majority, a.ssuming 
the duties of the office January 1, 11S!I5. 
The country is learning that the success- 
ful business man is most likel\ to manage 
wisely the affairs of a iniinicijialit)'. K.\- 
jjerience in commercial life is what we 
need in the administration of nearly all 
public oliices. and it marks an advance in 
practical wisdom when a community 
selects a business man for what is es.sen- 
tially a business office. The city of Buf- 
falo, therefore, may well congratulate it.self 
on Mr. Knight's accession to the office of 
comptroller. His administration ha.s been 
marked by sound business judgment, faith- 
fulness to the interests of the jjiiblic, and 
uniform courtesy to the patrons of the 
office In public and in private cajacity 
alike, .Mr. Knight has in large measure the 
res|)ect and good will of his fellow-citi/ens. 

PERSiOXAL CHROXOL OGY — 
Erastiii CoU Km);ht wns horn at /iiijfii/f 
Mttrch 1, lSo7 : iittfiuleil thf f>ublic schools 
a lui Bryant & Stratton' s Business ColUj^f . 
fngaj^fd in the proiiiue commission luisiness 
with William C. Lennox, iSSitSl : mar 
rieil Mary Eliuiheth Cowlea of Buffalo May 
14, ISSl : estahlisheil a real-estate hisiness 
in 1SS7, anil formed a f<artnershif> with 
Oliver A. Jenkins in ISfU : 7vas elected 
supenusor of the old I Uh ward of Buffalo in 1SSU, and 
was re-elected in the neic ^I,th ward in JSOl and lS!>.i, 
sen'ittg as chairman of the hoard in ISfH .• was elected 
comptroller of the city of Buffalo in XiTemher, IS.'i',. 



30bU tt. Xa£>CCllCd, though a newcomer to 
Buffalo, is already thoroughly identified with the 
business interests of the city. He is a Itanker of 
long ex|ierience and of great ability, and is so re- 
garded by his fellow -financiers. His career in the 
lield in whii h he has won so marked a success l>egan 
when he was eighteen years old. M that time he 
entered the service of the I.ake Shore Bank of Dun- 
kirk, N. Y., his native town. Ik'ginning in the lowly 
cajacity of "trotter," where the |)Ower of literall) 
"getting there" right on time is the one thing 
needful, he rose by degrees to more im|>ortant |iosi 
lions, serving in the various grades of derkshijis, 
absorbing sjieedily a thorough knowletlge of tank- 
ing methods, anti actpiiring a mastery of the science 
of linance. For eight years his connection with the 
Like Shore Bank was unbroken, and he severed it 




Ji>//\ H. I.ASCEI.I.HS 

only to accept a flattering offer from a rival institii 
tion, the Merchants' National Bank of Dunkirk, 
which wished to make him its cashier. This was in 
IS.H'J. Ten years of his active busini-ss life were 



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spent with this bank — years fraught with success for 
both the bank and its cashier. During this period 
Mr. Lascelles became known in circles beyond Dun- 
kirk as a careful and conservative but shrewd bank 
manager. He had proved himself fully equal to 
every emergency and to all demands, and it was 
plain that the limit of his capacity was far from 
reached. Accordingly, when that old, solid institu- 
tion, the Marine Bank of Buffalo, stood in need of 
an assistant cashier, Mr. Lascelles was chosen for the 
place. He accepted the position, and moved to 
Buffalo October l.o, 1892. His election to the posi- 
tion of ca.shier soon follovved, and this place he now 
fills to the eminent .satisfaction of the officers and 
directors of the bank and of its many customers. 
A bank cashier must be affable, yet firm ; must know 
when to accpiiesce and when to refuse ; must at no 
time offend those with whom his bank has dealings : 
must be alert to protect the bank, and ready to listen 
to all propositions from its customers ; must know 
the financial standing of those who come to him ; 
and must see that the machinery of the institution 
runs without jar. Mr. La.scelles has all the necessary 
qualities highly developed, and they make him an 
ideal man for the place he fills. He still retains a 
connection with the Merchants' National Bank of 
Dunkirk, of which he is vice president. 

Banking has not absorbed all of Mr. Lascelles' 
time and attention. Having a broad outlook and a 
wide interest in men and all their affairs, he has to 
meet demands for his services in man)- directions. 
During his long residence in Dunkirk he devoted 
him.self somewhat to politics. This was largely a 
labor of love, as he is a Democrat, and as Chautau- 
(jua county is a hotbed of Republicanism. It is said, 
by the way, that there is more politics to the square 
inch in that county than in any other in the state of 
New York, and it is only natural that Mr. Lascelles 
became infected with the prevailing disease. Still, 
he is not a violent partisan, and does not place party 
above good government. His personal popularity 
in Dunkirk was evidenced by his triumphant election 
as city treasurer, an office that he held for several 
consecutive years. For six years he served as a mem- 
ber of the board of education, of which he was also 
treasurer at different times. When he ran for county 
treasurer on the Democratic ticket, he was, of course, 
defeated: but he received the largest vote of any of 
his i)arty's candidates. 

One who is willing to give of his time and energy for 
the benefit of others always has plenty of such oppor- 
tunities for self-sacrifice thrust u])on him ; and so it 
has been with Mr. Lascelles. He has performed many 
duties cheerfully with no thought of recompense. One 



of the organizers of the Dunkirk Savings & Loan 
Association, he served it as treasurer from the date of 
its organization until he moved to Buffalo. He is 
now serving his third year as treasurer of the Buffalo 
Board of Trade and of the Merchants' Exchange. 

Mr. Lascelles is a member of various social organi- 
zations, including St. Mary's Lyceum of Dunkirk, 
the Buffalo Orpheus Singing Society, and the Buffalo 
Catholic Young Men's Club. 

PERSONAL CHROXOLOGY—John Henry 
Lascelles was born at Dtnikirk, N. V., March 3, 
1856 ; attended the public schools of Dunkirk; was 
elected cashier of the Mel-chants' National Bank of 
Dunkirk in 1882 ; married Annie Moran of Buffalo 
on Thanksgiving Day, 188i> ; was elected assistant 
cashier of the Marine Bank of Buffalo in 1892 ; has 
been cashier of the same bank since 1893. 



50bn XaUGblin is a native of Erie county, 
N. Y., and a man to whom that county and the 
state as well is much indebted for public service. 
After taking a four years' course in the Lockport 
Union School (an institution that has played a prom- 
inent part in the intellectual development of western 
New York), Mr. Laughlin read law in the office of 
Richard Crowley of Lockport. In the spring of 
1881 Mr. Crowley moved to Buffalo, and Mr. 
Laughlin, who had just completed his legal studies, 
accompanied him and was admitted to the bar in 
Buffalo. He at once became managing clerk in the 
office of Crowley, Movius & Wilcox, and two years 
later became Mr. Crowley's jiartner in the finii of 
Crowley & Laughlin. Soon after, Mr. Crowley 
went to New York city, and Mr. Laughlin formed a 
copartnership with Joseph E. Ewell. Wilbur E. 
Houpt was taken into the firm a little later, and the 
style became Laughlin, Ewell & Houjjt. 

In 1(S.S7 Mr. Laughlin was nominated for state 
senator to fill a vacancy on the Republican ticket, 
and was elected. He was re-elected in 188!t, but 
was defeated in 1891, though he ran ahead of his 
ticket. He was a delegate to the Republican 
national convention in 1888, where he warmly advo- 
cated Depew's candidacy, and was the last man in 
the New York delegation to give up "ourChaun- 
cey." Mr. Laughlin's service in the legislature was 
marked by earnest efforts to effect needed and jirac- 
tical reforms in different de|)artments of the govern- 
ment. Like all men of advanced views, he not 
infrequently found himself in a minority ; but on 
many points he has had the satisfaction of seeing his 
ideas pre\ail in the end. 

Throughout his two terms in the senate, Mr. 
Laughlin was a member of the judiciary committee. 



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He was also chairman of the ranal rommittcc. and 
advocated lil)cral appropriations for the imjirove- 
ment of the state canals, Ijelieving that they are an 
important factor in the prosperity of the common- 
wealth. He pre|)ared and introduced a revision of 
the police-excise laws of Hiiffalo, and of the liuffaln 
public school act ; and these measures, 
though defeated when originally i)re- 
sented, were suhsetpiently embodied in 
the revised charter of the city of liutTalo, 
which |xisseil the senate in IHltl chiefly 
through Mr. I j\ighlin's efforts. 

Another of Mr. I^ughlin's jiractical 
reforms has been more wiilely operative 
by reason of its embodiment in the new 
constitution of the state of New York. 
We refer to the change in the method 
of conducting elections whereby munici- 
jjal offices, concerning which the " |)er- 
sonal e<niation " counts for so much, are 
fdled in odd years, while state and 
national offices, in which great jMiblic 
questions ])lay .so im|)ortant a jurt, are 
fiUeil in even years. Such an arrange- 
ment ol>\iously simplifies issues, promotes 
political purity, and generally serves the 
cause of good government. 

While in the senate, Mr. l.aughlin 
tlevoteil mu( h time and thought to the 
subject of text-books in the ]«iblic schools. 
His own exfxjrience suggested to him the 
need of reform in this |)articular, and his 
later observation only strengthened the 
earlier conviction. He saw the lack oi 
uniformity in the books used in different 
schools, and the freipient changes in 
volved in the attempt of each school 
board to imjtrove on the choice of its 
predecessor. .Ml this he regarded not 
only as a serious hardship in a jiecuniary 
way to |jeople of moderate means, but also as a 
|)Ositive obstacle to the jjupil's progress. His plan 
was thoroughly comprehensive in its sco|)e, and 
proviiled for the creation of a commission to select 
iKJoks, purchase copyrights, and prefKire originals 
when necessary. The books could thus Ik? ob- 
tained by the state at the lowest jwssible rates, 
and were to be furnished to the pupils without 
charge ; and the books were not to be changed 
except at stated |)eriods and for adeijuate cause. 
This measure was defeated in the senate: but one 
consei|uence of the movement w.is the adojition 
of free text-books by Buffalo and by some other 
places in the state. 



Since his retirement from the senate Mr. I.aughlin 
has devoted himself a.ssiduously to the law, and has 
built up a large general practice in Ujth the state and 
the United States courts. He has l)een cs|>ecially 
successful as a trial lawyer, where his talent as a public 
s|»eaker has come into effeitive play. Though out 




/oiix r irr.Hf i\ 

of active |X)litiis, .\lr. I.iiighlin maintains his interest 
in ])ublic affairs. He is < ailed uiK>n in every cam - 
|)aign to deliver addres.ses, and usually does .so. 

PERSOXAI. CIIROyOLOay—John Lau^h- 
liii was born at XncsteaJ, Erie county, N. Y., 
March IJf, IS.VI ; teas ciiiicalcit in the district schooh 
of Erie and Xiai^aia counties, auii in LocUcfi'rt i'nion 
School : was admitteii to the har in ISSl : Jtuis elected 
stale senator in ISST, and re-elected in J.SSf) ; lias 
firacticed laio in liuffalo since JSSl. 

"lOCilll 1. iCWl3 has Ixren prominent at the 
l>ar and on the liench of western New York for 
nearly forty years. During all that time his record 



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MEN OF XEW yORK~Ui:STER.\ SECTIOX 



has been one of which any man might uell he proud, 
and which few men may hope to equal. Coming to 
Buffalo when it was little more than a large village, 
he has seen it grow and prosper, and has been a part 
of its growth and prosperity. While the law has 
claimed his first attention, he has been an active 



l.OR.W I.. I.F.WIS 

figure in various enterprises that have done much to 
build up and make great the Queen City of the Lakes. 
Born in Cayuga county, N. \'., in the quarter- 
century year, Mr. Lewis spent his early life in the 
central part of the state, and his education was begun 
in the city of Auburn. He was (]uite a young man 
when he determined to study law. and was only 
twenty-three years old when admitted to the bar. 
Then, as now, the question of location was an im- 
portant one for the young lawyer to decide. Loran 
L. Lewis, after looking carefully over the field, de- 
termined to come to Buffalo. He arrived in that 
city in 1H4M, and it has been his home ever since. 
He did not have to wait long for clients, and his 




]jrogress when once begun was continuous. He 
formed a partnership with C. O. Pool in 1854, and 
with several others afterward — with Ceorge Wads- 
worth, Wm. H. (Hirney, A. (!. Rice, Adelbert Moot, 
and with his own son, Ceorge I-. Lewis. The firm 
name of Lewis, Moot & Lewis is best known to the 
younger generation of Buffalonians. 

Politics at one time demanded much 
of Mr. Lewis's attention, and his .services 
to the Republican party were rewarded 
in the fall of 1861) with a nomination to 
the state senate. The voters of Erie 
county endorsed the nomination, and Mr. 
Lewis had a seat in the highest legislative 
body of the state of New York for four 
years, having been returned for a second 
term in liSTl. From the end of that 
period of service Senator Lewis, as every- 
one then called him, remained a private 
citizen until January 1, 1883, when he 
took his seat on the Supreme Court 
bench, to which he was elected from the 
8th judicial district. For thirteen years 
he presided with dignity, fearlessness, 
impartiality, and unusual ability over 
many trials, some of grave im]jortance, 
and others of slight interest to any but 
the parties at suit. For the last four 
years of his service on the bench Judge 
Lewis was honored with the appointment 
as a member of the (ieneral Term, and 
distinguished him.self there by many val- 
uable decisions. During the jieriod of 
his life passed at the bar, Mr. Lewis w^as 
known as a trial lawyer of the highest 
rank. His examinations were marked by 
a searching directness that ])ermitted 
nothing to be left hidden : his opponent 
always dreaded his shafts of sarcasm ; and 
his appeals to the jury were elo(|uent, 
logical, and eminently siicce.ssful. It is still said 
among the lawyers of Buffalo that there has never 
been, in the history of the Erie county bar, any 
other advocate who won .so large a proportion of his 
ca.ses before the jury as Mr. I>ewis, and that when 
he went upon the bench he was regarded as an ad\o- 
cate unequaled in jiersuasiveness. 

Judge Lewis is interested in several of the banking 
institutions of Buffalo, being a director and vice 
president of the Third National Bank, and a director 
of the German-American Bank. He has found recre- 
ation in farming, and is the owner of a handsomely 
e(|uiiiped farm at Lewiston, where he spends much of 
his leisure time. 



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PERSONAL CIIRONOLOLiV— l.oiiui Lo,U> 
7i>ic/t Lnois JCiis horn at Mentz, C'im/x''' loiinty, X. ) ., 
Afity !), hHJii : came to Buffalo in the Jail oj isi,s . 
was admitted to the bar in 18^8 ; married Charlotte 
E. Pierson of East Aurora, X. Y.,June 1, lS'>-i : 
was elected state senator from the Erie county district 
in IHlUt, and icas re-elected in 18 1 1 : was elected 
judj^e of the Supreme Court in the 8th judicial district 
in 1882, and sert'ed as such until 1895, when he re- 
tired hy limitation of age. 



t)rtr^in llCtb XlttCll is a spleiulid ty|»e of a 
ino>i iiii|ioriaiu i la-vs oi men — the class which has 
had the largest jjart in the material development of 
our country, and which constitutes, toj;ether with 
nature and with inventive genius, the real lause of 
that development. These are the men who possess 
in a conspicuous degree what is known 
as executive ability — that rare and < hoice 
(|uality of brain matter which enables the 
owner to organize men and things into a 
jjerfectly-oiled, swift-nmning, and fric- 
tionless machine, performing immense 
amounts of work almost aiitoinatii all\ . 

Such a man in a marked degree is 
Hardin H. I.ittell. i;du<ated very in- 
adeipiately — "none at all," as he says 
himself jocosely — Mr. I.ittell was obligeil 
to begin work when most bovs are begin- 
ning their faesar and their algebra. He 
e.ssayed first the dry -goods business, and 
later, after the family had moved to Louis- 
ville, Ky., iLssumed a more ambitious 
place in a jewelry .store. Few men are 
fortunate enough to find at once the 
s|)ecial kind of work for which they are 
best ada|ited, and our jiresent subject 
offers no exception to this general rule. 

.\t nineteen .Mr. I.ittell really began his 
career, for it was at that .ige that he entered 
the service of the Louisville City Railway 
Co., as a clerk in the treasurer's office. 
In the following year he was |»romoted to 
the position of assistant superintendent, 
and at the age of twenty-two he became 
superintendent. He remained in charge 
of the Louisville city railways for nearly 
a tpiarter of a century, in which time the 
system was very much extended and im- 
proved. The change from horse to elec- 
tricity as the motive power was made in 
later years of his work in Louisville. 

In the decade 188(l-{10 the city of Huffalo grew 
bevond all precedent in many ways, and es)>ecially in 



|)art in the 



the matter of |>opiilation. Such a |K'riod is |iarticii- 
larl) trying for a street-railway system, and the 
owners of the HulTalo street railways ileeined it of 
the first im|X)rtance to find somewhere a thoroughly 
lajKible man to co|h." with this state of affairs in the 
management of their proi>erty. Such a man thev 
found in Mr. Littell. He was elected in May. 1H!M, 
president of the Cross-town Railway Co., vice presi- 
dent of the Buffalo Railway Co., and general mana- 
ger of both com|>anies. He .ixsumeil the duties of 
the.se [jositions in the following month. I'ntler his 
administration the prosjK-rity of the i oin|>anies has 
been marked, while the o|ieration of the system from 
the stantl|)oint of the jiublic has been greatly im- 
proved anil brought to a high »legree of exiellence. 
The service was doubled in mileage in three years, 
and all [arts of the city anil suburlis were brought 



■^^^■t 





//.iA'/>/.v turn I irri 1 1 



into close tou< h with eai h other through a network 
of electrii lines. 

Mr. I.ittell's time and energy have lieen given 
< hiclly to the com|>anii-s direc tly under his care : but 



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numerous other enterprises have received the benefit 
of his wide experience. For a number of years he 
has been president of the Cincinnati Inclined-Plane 
Railway of Cincinnati. He is director and vice 
president of the Buffalo, Bellevue & Lancaster rail- 
road. He is a director in the Bellevue Land Co., 
also. Notwithstanding his departure from Louisville, 
Mr. Littell has retained his position as director in 
the Louisville Railway Co., as well as a directorate 
in that highly successful institution, the German 
Bank of Louisville. He is also a director still in the 
Columbia Finance and Trust Co. of Louisville. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Hardhi Heth 
Littell 7uas born at Corydon, Harrison county, Lnd., 
August 5, ISJfO : attended country schools until the age 
of twelve : married Nellie Burton Green of Logans- 
port, lnd. , April 26, 1876 ; entered the service of the 
Louisville City Raihvay Co. in 186Jf, and became 
superintendent of the company in 1867 ; has been gen- 
eral manager of the Buffalo street-raihoay system since 

June, 18.91. 

♦♦♦ 

©auiCl 1H. X0Cl?\V005 is aBuffalonian whose 
fame and reputation are national. He is known as 
a politician of great ability, as a legislator of keen 
intelligence, as a lawyer of deep learning, and as a 
shrewd man of affairs. He has long held a con- 
spicuous and honorable position at the bar of Buffalo 
and among the ])ublic men of the Empire State. 

Born in a small country town, with none of the 
advantages of wealth, and bereft of his father at an 
early age, he found the usual difficulty which young 
men of limited means and high ambition experience 
in obtaining a college education. But he possessed 
such tenacity, determination, and persistency that he 
swept all obstacles from his pathway, and finally 
graduated from L'nion College in D^fi."). 

Mr. Lockwood had early been attracted to the law, 
and shortly after graduation he entered the office of 
Judge Humphrey in Buffalo, and was admitted to 
practice before the Supreme Court of New York in 
180(i. The wi.sdom of his choice of a jjrofession 
soon became evident ; for to strong reasoning powers, 
forcible expre.ssion of ideas, and unfailing tact, he 
added capacity for work and untiring zeal in the 
preparation and ])resentation of ca.ses. During the 
thirty years in which he has followed his ])rofession 
many important causes have been entrusted to his 
care, and many notable victories have been won by 
him in the courts. That he is a carefiil, sound, 
and conscientious counselor, and an able, eloijuent, 
and convincing advocate, is amply evidenced in the 
gratifying mea.sure of professional success attained 
bv him. 



As a business man Mr. Lockwood stands high, 
and his shrewdness and good judgment, conservative 
yet fearless, are acknowledged by all. He has an 
active interest in a number of commercial enter- 
prises. He is president and manager of the Akron 
Cement Works, one of the leading industries in this 
line ; vice president and manager of the Buffalo Sewer 
Pipe Company ; president of the Buffalo, New York 
& Erie railroad ; and a director of the Merchants' 
Bank, and of the Third National Bank, both of 
Buffalo. 

To the people at large, however, Mr. Lockwood 
is best known through his long connection with 
public affairs. He has always been a Democrat 
and an ardent supporter of Democratic principles. 
He has a wide reputation as a campaign speaker of 
imusual force and eloquence. During his early days 
in party service, it was not unusual for him to make 
half a dozen cam])aign speeches to as many differ- 
ent audiences in a single evening. He is said to 
have a wider personal acquaintance with the people 
of western New York than any other man in the 
country. 

Soon after coming to Buffalo Mr. Lockwood look 
an active part in political affairs. In 1871 he was 
nominated for district attorney of Erie county ; and 
though he was defeated, his great popularity carried 
him 1 ,500 votes ahead of his ticket. Three years later 
he was again nominated, and this time was elected. 
Before his term of three years expired he was called 
upon to accept a higher honor — membership in the 
45th congress. This body as.sembled in October, 
1877, and was destined to figure largely in one of 
the most serious and momentous |)olitical contests in 
the history of the country. The Tilden-Hayes elec- 
tion controversy is still fresh in the public mind, and 
is even yet hardly ripe for the \^en of the historian : 
but the part jjlayed by the great actors in that scene 
stands out in higher relief with the passage of 
time, and to have been intimately connected with 
that event is an experience a man might ])roperly 
covet. It was Mr. Lockwood' s fortune to serve 
in that memorable congress. Though one of the 
voungest re|)resentatives, his speech on the Demo- 
cratic side of the question attracted the attention of 
his fellow-members, and is one of the really valua- 
ble contributions to the literature of the great 
controversy. 

On the expiration of his congressional term Mr. 
Lockwood resumed the practice of his profession, 
associated in partnershij) with Judge Hum])hrc\-, but 
did not cea.se his active participation in what has 
always seemed an allied branch of the law — civic 
affairs. He was too good a manager, too wise a 



,1/i^.V or XEir )OJ<k— WESTER \ sEcr/ox 



counselor, too willing a worker, to i)e rclii'vcd from 
public service. In IHSO he was a delegate to the 
Democratic national convention at C'inc iiinati, whi< h 
nominated ( General Hancock lor I'resident. In the 
same year (Jrover Cleveland was elected mayor of 
Buffalo, and Mr. l.ockwood made the nominating 
si)cech. Two years later, as a delegate 
to the Democratic state convention, .\lr. 
Lockwood placed (Jrover Cleveland in 
nomination for the office of governor. 
In 1HX4, at the Democratic national con- 
vention in Chicago, .Mr. l.ockwood pre- 
sented the name of the same man for the 
Presidency of the United States. 

Having been ajipointed by I'resident 
Cleveland L'nited States district attorney 
for northern New York, Mr. l.ockwood 
brought to the office the same legal 
acumen that characterized his private 
l)ractice. .After holding the position for 
three years, he resigned in IM.S'.I. In the 
following year he was elected to congress 
again, and in 1H!I2 he was re-elected. In 
both congresses Mr. l.ockwood served on 
important (ommitlees, and re)K'atcd his 
earlier success in that body. He cared 
for the interests of his constituents with 
fidelity and unflagging zeal. He drafted 
an immigration bill that was regarded by 
many authorities as alTording the best |iro 
tection to .American labor ever devised. 

PERSOXAL CHROXOLOGY — 
Dtuiic-l Nnvtoii LockwooJ nuts horn at 
J/ani/'inx, jV. Y., /line 1, liS'44 ■ gradu- 
ated at i'niim Coi/ef^e, Sihenectady, X. )'. . 
/// ISiio : 7i'as admitted to the liar in 
May, 18<>(i ; married Sarah B. Bnmm of 
Riiffalo Oitoher IS, 1S70 ; mas district 
attorney for Erie county, lS7i)—77; loas a 
delei^ate to Democratic national contentions in ISSO 
and ISS-i : icas United States district attorney for the 
northern district of A''e7o York, ISSOSH : was a mem- 
her of the >,'tth, .'tJd, and .'i-id coni^resses ( IST7-7f> 
and lS!>l-iti> ) ; loas nominated for lieutenant go-rernor 
of Xeio York state in Septemher, IS'.iIf. 

iailUU-C» JfrnUClii /IDallallCU bas carried 
the gospel over a larger [art of the wiirld than most 
living clergymen. He has journeyed Irom north 
to south, /ig/agged from Norway to Mexico, and 
belted the globe, tending the Mattered flocks of the 
Methodist fold. He is the embodiment of physical 
and mental vigor consecrated to religious work. 
These ipialities he ■ ■nv.. l)y honestly, inheriting on 



his father's side the bluod of the Huguenots exiled 
from France, and on his mother's side that of a 
I'liritan t'amily who heljied to found Salem. Hi.shoji 
.Mallalieu's youth was favored with the su|)erior edu- 
cational op|K)rtunities of the oldest section of the 
country, and he was thus enabled to enter the minis- 




DASIEL N. LOCKWOitn 

try the same year in which he graduated from col- 
lege, excellently c<iuip|>ed for the grave res|»onsibil- 
ity of that profession. He ipiickly rose to influential 
prominence in the im|)ortant Mas.s.ichusetts stations 
to which he was a.ssigned. In 1K(>7 he provecl his 
devotion to |>astoral work by declining the presi- 
dency of Central Tennessee College, to which he had 
l)een elected. In iMT.'i he visited Kuro|)e for the 
purpose of studying certain ph.ves of soc ial, relig- 
ious, and educational life. In lx7(i he was elected 
assistant .secretary of the Freedman's .-Vid Society, 
but declined the jiosition. He was re|icatedly sent by 
the New Kngland Conference as delegate to the C.en- 
cral Conference of the Methodist Fpiscopal church, 
and to the Conference of l'<«4 he w.-ls elec ted bv the 



'>6 



.I//:A" ()/•■ .\7-:if )7)A'A'— /r'A'.S/'AVOA' SKCTKhX 



largest vote ever given to a delegate. This Confer- 
ence ])roved memorable in Mr. Mallalieu's career, as 
it placed him on the exalted roll of Methodist bishops. 
He was thus removed from the presiding eldership 
that he had filled during the two jjreceding years ; but 
he added a solid pillar to the Methodist episcopate. 




WIl.l.ARn /■A'.I.VC/S .lA //./,. y/.M'T' 

From this time Bisho]) Mallalieu's work took on a 
([uickly expanding character. His episcopal resi- 
dence was in the South, where he chose New Orleans 
for his home. It is not farfetched in this connection 
to point to the wonderful growth in recent years of 
the Methodist Kpiscojjal church in the South. Be- 
cause of its abolitionism, this church was not toler- 
ated in that part of the country a tpiarter of a cen- 
tury ago : but there are now over a half million 
members of the Methodist church south of the old 
line. During hi.s eight years' residence in New Or- 
leans, Bishop Mallalieu held Conferences from Dela- 
ware to Texas, and s]jartd no effort to further the 
conversion and education of tin- freedmen. 



In pursuance of the duties of his office Bishop Mal- 
lalieu went to l'!urope in l^i^i)^, and presided over 
Conferences from Naples to 'I'hrondheim in Norway, 
and from Switzerland to the Black Sea. In the fol- 
lowing year he went to Mexico, to inspect missions 
and hold Conferences. In 1892 he undertook a 
world-encircling epi.scopal itinerary in 
behalf of the foreign missions of his 
church. Sailing from San Francisco by 
way of Honolulu, he traveled in Japan, 
Korea, and China, visiting Peking and 
adjacent cities. He went to Shanghai 
next, and up the Yangtse-Kiang river 
to Kew Kiang and the heart of the 
empire. Returning, he visited the city 
of Foochow and many other localities 
in the Fuhkien pro\ince. Singapore, 
Ceylon, Madras, and Calcutta were 
then visited in turn. He next went 
up the ("ranges fifteen hundred miles, 
inspecting mission work in many of the 
great cities, and crossed the counlr\ 
via Delhi to Bombay. He returned b\ 
way of the Red Sea and Hgy])t, with 
occasional stojjs at points in southern 
F.urope. 

Action has been the keynote of Bishop 
.Mallalieu's successful ministry. Kver 
alert, quick in thought and sympathy, 
and remarkably affable in manner, his 
work both as pastor and bishop has 
endeared him to all. While in the 
pulpit, Bishop Mallalieu was in constant 
demand in the lecture field : and he has 
been a frequent contributor to both the 
religious and the secular jjress. In 1874 
he received the degree of D. D. from 
Kast Tennessee Wesleyan I'niversity, 
and in 1892 the degree of I,L. D. from 
New Orleans University. 
PERSONAL CHR 0X0/. O C; I — IVil/ard Fran- 
cis Mallalieu 7i<as horn at Sutton, A/ass., Decemlh-r 11, 
1828 ; was educated at various preparatory schools and 
at Wcslexan i/niversity, Middletoivn, Conn., ivhence 
lie f^raduated in August, 1851 : married Eliza F. 
.Atkins of .Sandioicli, Mass., October 13, 1858: had 
pastorates of the Methodist Episcopal church succes- 
sively at Grafton, Chelsea, Lynn, Charlestmon, Bos- 
ton, and Worcester {all in Massachusetts) : teas ap- 
pointed presiding elder of the Boston district of the 
New England Conference in April, 1882 : was elected 
bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church in 188J, : 
lived in New Orleans from 188^. until 1892, when he 
moved to Buffalo. 



.i//;.\" or x/:u- \i>a'A'—ives77:a'x s/i:cr/ox 



JE^^Vnl G. 5. /IDlllCV represents a t lass of 
men that are tailed in the West by the name, mean- 
ingful to Americans at least, of "hustlers." Some 
men seem horn with activity and enterprise suflicient 
for two, and cover xs mmh in a brief s|»n of life as 
others in twice the number of years. .Modern life 
accompli>hes more in a day than was even |)Ossiblc 
before the age of stenographers, ty|)ewriters, and im- 
proved facilities of communication and trans|)orta- 
tion. This imdoubtedly accounts in jwrt for the 
vast volume of business that certain men perlbrm to- 
dav ; but nevertheless the [xjrsonal element Is still a 
large factor as regards both the (piantity and the 
ijiiality of the work done. 

Mr. .Miller's forty -odd years have been sjient en- 
tirely in Buffalo, where he was born and ed\icated, 
in which his business training was l)egun, 
and in which his commercial siicces.ses 
have been achieved, .\fter :i common- 
school education ( the e(|uii)nKnt of most 
.\merican boys) .Mr. .Miller took up the 
occupation of bookkee])er — one of the 
best Ibmis of discipline for anyone en- 
tering upon a mercantile career — and 
became an employee in the office of 
Ceorge Urban i\: Son, jjroprietors of the 
Roller Flour Mills. His ca|jacity lor 
business and his demonstrated worth to 
the firm were soon recognized, and in 
1X74 he was admitted into the jxirtner- 
ship. He then extended his business 
relations, and in the year 1KH4 be< ame 
manager of the (lerhard l^ng Brewery. 
His conduct of this establishment has 
been highly successful, and the outjjut 
from the malt house has steadily increased. 
In I)e(ember. IK!).'). .Mr. Miller added 
yet another enterprise to his various 
projects by purchasing an imiKjrtant in- 
terest in the Buffalo Eiii/tiirfr. Most 
men would be ta.xed to the utmost with 
the cares of so much business, but Mr. 
Miller is bles.sed with asplendid physique, 
executive ability, and untiring industry. 
He is at one or the other of his offices 
early and late, keei)ing longer hours than 
most men in positions like his. 

In financial circles Mr. Miller is an 
active and yet conservative force, seeking 
lines of investment and develoimient that 
have a i)ermanent future. He is a director in the 
People's Bank, the (.ierman-.Kmerican Bank, the Buf- 
falo Loan, Tnist & Safe Dejiosit Co., and the Buffalo 
.Savings Bank. When a movement for increa.sed 



street -car facilities was set on foot, and ca|>ital l)cgan 
.seriously to examine the field, Mr. Miller was among 
the foremost in giving his influence and su|i|iort to 
the scheme ; and when finally a com|iany was or- 
gani/.ed to build a new railway line, he l>ecame the 
first president. 

IX-spite this busy career, Mr. Miller has fotmd time 
for those |>olitical duties too often neglected by men 
of affairs. While never a candidate for office — for 
he would have no time to |)erform its functions — his 
counsel and s|>are hours have always t>een at the ser- 
vice of his |)arty. He is a Democrat in |>olitical 
belief, and was chosen by the Democratic state con- 
vention of 1K!I2 to be one of the presidential elec- 
tors : and he hel|)ed cast the vote of the state for Mr. 
Cleveland. 




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In so< ial life Mr. .Miller i.s es.sentially a home man, 
though a memU-r of the Buffalo Club and of the 
Ellicott Club. He is a memUr of St. Ix)uis 
Church, and is identific-d with its jihilanthropic work. 



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MEN OF X/ilV YORk'—lVESTKRX SECT/OX 



Courteous in his demeanor, reliable in business, and 
cordial in hishos]jitality, he stands among the foremost 
of Buffalo's active and progressive men of to-day. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Edwin G.S. 
Aliller urns born at Buffalo March 9, 185 J^ ; 7cias 
educated in common schools : married Annie E. Lam:; 




EDWARD II. MO \- lis 

of Buffalo in June, 188^ ; 7vas a Democratic presi- 
dential elector in 1892 ; has been a partner in the 
firm of Urban &" Co. (roller flour mills) since 187 j^, 
manai^er of the Gerhard Lang Breiuery since 1884, 
and part owner of the Buffalo ' ' Enquirer ' ' since De- 
cember, 1895. 



]£^^Var^ ti. /IDOXnUS is a student, a lawyer, 
and a man of affairs. lie is known as one of the 
foremost professional men of Buffalo, and as a 
thorough, painstaking, and capable worker in what- 
ever he undertakes. To these traits of character he 
owes his great success. 'I'hough born in Michigan, 
Mr. Movius has practically been a Buffalonian all his 



life. His early scholastic training was obtained in 
various private schools in Buffalo, at Russell's Mili- 
tary Academy, New Haven, Conn., and at Phillips 
Academy, Exeter, N. H. -Shortly after finishing his 
studies at Exeter in 18(i7, he went to Europe and 
took a course at the famous University of Heidel- 
berg, Germany, from which he graduated 
in 1869, with the degrees of Doctor of 
Philosophy and Master of Arts. After- 
ward he determined to adojJt the law as 
his jjrofession, and took a course in the 
law school connected with Hamilton 
College at Clinton, X. V., receiving there 
the degree of LL. B. 

He began at once the active practice 
of his profession, and has continued the 
same with unbroken success up to the 
present time. He read law in the offices 
of those masters, E. Carleton S])rague 
and Delavan F. Clark, both now dead, 
and brought to his life-work a mind well 
grounded in the ]jrinciples of the law and 
thoroughly trained in the ap|)lication of 
those principles to intricate problems. 
The firm names of Crowley & Mo\ius, 
of Allen, Movius & Wilcox, and of 
Movius & Wilcox have been prominent 
in manv matters of much legal im- 
portance. Since the dissolution of the 
last-named firm in 1893, Mr. Movius has 
practiced alone. 

When the West Shore railway was 
]3rojected from New \'ork to Buffalo, 
jjaralleling the lines of the New York 
Central, Mr. Movius was appointed one 
of the attorneys of the com])any, and as 
such rendered service of the utmost value. 
This company bought millions of dollars' 
worth of property, and Mr. Movius passed 
on the greater part of the titles of land 
purcha.sed in Erie and Cenesee counties. He con- 
tinued as the attorney of the West Shore road until 
about the time of its reorganization and lease to the 
Central. He was al.so one of the attorneys for the 
commissioners of the state reservation at Niagara in 
their condemnation of valuable lands taken by the 
state " for the ]Kirpose of restoring the scenery of the 
great Falls to its natural condition," and of estab- 
lishing there a jjark that should be free to all man- 
kind for all time. In that capacity Mr. Movius 
pas-sed on the titles of all land taken by the state. 

From 1887 to 1889 Mr. Movius served in the very 
trving position of receiver of the First National 
Bank of Buffalo, which had been wrecked by its 



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president. Hen- he displayed in a marked de{;ree 
unusual ability a.s a lawyer and as a man of business. 
To his efforts was larj^ely due the satisfactory closing 
of the affairs of that unfortunate institution. 

When President t'leveland was looking about for 
the right kind of material to i ompose the board of 
United States mineral-land commissioners he picketl 
out Mr. Mo\ ius as one of the three members for the 
Helena ( Mont. ) land district. Theirs was a most 
(litTicult and deliiate task. Mow well they are dis- 
iharging their duties is evidenced in the Montana 
|)a|)ers, one of which, the Helena Imlepeiuient, said on 
.August 2."5, lM!t"): " Starting out inex|)erienced and 
unfamiliar with their duties, with natural prejudice 
against them beiause they were strangers in a strange 
land, the mineral-land commissioners, one and all, 
have discharged their duties with fidelity, earnestness, 
and im|)artiality . They have done a great 
work, antl have won deserving and lasting 
gratitude from all parlies interested." 

The social side of .Mr. Movius's nature 
is highly develoiied, and he is a welcome 
visitor at the many dubs and societies of 
which he is a member, .\mong these are 
the University Club of iNew York, the 
University Club of Buffalo, the Huffalo 
Club, of which he has been vice pres- 
ident, and the Montana Chib of Helena, 
Mont. 

PERSONAL CHROXOL OG ) ' — 
Edwanl llallam Min'ius was l>oni at 
ypsilanti, Mich., October 10, ISJ^S : 7fa.i 
(ihicatcl in Tarit'iis preparatory sclioo/s in 
this country, and ;:;raduatcd from the Uni- 
versity of Heidelberg, Germany, in ISO!) 
with the degrees of Ph. D. and M. A. : 
graduated from //ami/ton College law 
school, Clinton, X. J'., in IS7S : married 
Mary Laz'ering Rumsey of Buffalo Sep- 
tember 26, 1877 : was appointed receiver 
of the First Xational Bank of Buffalo in 
1S87 ; was appointed by /'resident Cleve- 
land one of the board of three United States 
mineral-land commissioners in the Helena 
( Mont. ) land district in April, ISOr,. 

IHatbamcl lUilli^ IHorton is 

one of the liest known of the younger 
members of the bar of Krie county. 
Coming to Huffalo fresh from his law 
studies, a com]>arative stranger in the city, he never- 
theless, by reason of natural ability and untiring 
diligence, soon attained a practice that was the envy 
of many new disciples of Kent and Blai kstone. 



The excellent common -.school system of Maine 
afTortleil young Norton his first knowledge of books. 
When nineteen years old he entered Nichols latin 
School at I.ewiston in his native state, and there de- 
voted himself industriously to a course of study that 
would adeiiuately lit him for lollege. Mr. .Norton 
six^nt his iVeshman year at Hates College ; but Dart- 
mouth was more to his liking, and he entered the 
sophomore cla.ss of that institution in 1875. Three 
years of hard study at Hanover brought him to that 
epochal time in the lives of all college men — gradu- 
ation day. His duties at Hartmouth had Iteen dis- 
chargi-'d with fidelity, and the liachelor's degree was 
conferred u])on him in due course. 

Immediately after leaving college Mr. Norton was 
electeil |>rincipal of the high .s( hool at W.ire, M;lss. 
This ap|>ointment tt,is ver)' creditable to the young 




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graduate, and might easily have encouraged him to 
adopt teaching as his professit^n. But it wa.s no |>art 
of Mr. Norton's scheme of life to remain a s<hool- 
teacher : he had other aims, and the law was his 



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ambition. He taught school for one year onl\ , there 
fore, and devoted all his spare time to the study of 
the fundamental jirinciples of law. At the end of that 
period he entered the .\lbany Law School, from which 
he graduated with the degree of LI .. K. in May, 1880. 
I lis admission to the bar, at Albany, followed at once. 

.Mr. Norton ( ame to Buffalo the .same year, believ- 
ing that the place was a thriving, growing, bustling 
city, where the legal profession wa.s not overcrowded 
at the top — and the top was the place that Mr. 
Norton determined to reach, if intelligence, industr) , 
and a mastery of his profession could i)ut him there. 
How well he has succeeded the record of the past 
fifteen years amply demonstrates. For the first five 
years Mr. Norton practiced law alone, but in April, 
188."), his brother, Rosewell M., joined him : and in 
lanuary, 1X9."), a second brother, Herbert F. J., was 
admitted to the firm. 

While thoroughly devoted to his profession, Mr. 
.Norton has identified himself with the general con- 
cerns of the conmiunity, and many enterprises and 
organizations of a public and .semi-public nature have 
received the benefit of his support, his counsel, and 
his exani|)le. He is a member of the Buffalo Histor- 
ical Society, the Buffalo Library, the (lerman Young 
Men's Association, and the Merchants' F^xchange. 
He is a trustee of the Buffalo Orphan Asylum. He 
is also a prominent member of the Buffalo, Saturn, 
and University c lubs. He has long been an ardent 
believer in the princ i|)les of the Republican jjarty. 
and is a leading member of the Buffalo Repulilican 
League. .\t the same time he does not believe that 
party advantage .should be placed before |)ublic gootl : 
and honest i)olitics, as the phrase is, finds in him a 
hearty advocate. His party services were rewarded 
by an ap])ointment as assistant L'nited States distri( t 
attorney under Colonel D. S. .Alexander, who was 
appointed by President Harrison. .Mr. .Norton alil\ 
filled this ])Osition for a year and a half during IfSJSi) 
and 1X!)0, when the demands of his ])rivate j)ractice 
compelled his resignation. This is the only public 
ofifice he has held. 

PERSONA /. ( II R OXOL O c; ) — Xathaulcl 
Willis Norton was born at Porter, Me., Marcli ■!, 
18.')-J ; spent one year at Bates College, /nit graduated 
from Dartmouth College, in 1878 ; was principal of 
Ware ( Mass. ) High School, 1878-70 ; married Mary 
Estella Miner of Buffalo ftinc SO, 1880; was 
assistant United States district attorney, INSti-fJO : has 
practiced law in Buffalo since 1880. 



E>auiCl ©'S)aS is an example of what pluck, 
energ) , and persexerance, coupled with ability, all 
properly directed, will do for a man. Starting with 



no advantages, without influential friends to back 
him, with nothing in fact but native talent, a deter- 
mination to succeed, and a willingness to work hard 
at whatever he could find to do, this man early in 
life reached a position of affluence and influence. 
Some people might say that Mr. O'Day had opjjor- 
lunities that come to but few men. This may be so, 
but he worked for tho.se openings for advancement, 
seized them when they came within his reach, and 
had jjreviously qualified himself, by untiring energy, 
to make the most of them. No obstacle ever came 
in Daniel O'Day's pathway that he was not ready 
and willing to overcome by hard work and persist- 
ent effort. This is the secret of his busine.ss success. 
He is, furthermore, a public-s])irited citizen, engaged 
in many enterprises of a ])ubli( or a private nature. 
His friends are numbered by the thousand, for he is 
a [iopular man, |jersonally, socially, and politicallv. 
He is a member of \arious social organizations in 
both Buffalo and New York. Though an ardent 
Democrat and a liberal contributor to his party's 
funds, he has never held political office, except as a 
presidential elector. 

Born in Ireland, .Mr. O'Day was brought to this 
country when a small child. His early life was 
pa.ssed on a farm in Cattaraugus county. New York. 
Here he spent hi.•^ (la\s as do most boys brought up 
in like conditions. His education, actpiired in the 
broad field of the world, had its foundation in the 
public schools. Farming was not at all to his liking, 
and when he was eighteen years old he moved to 
I'.ufialo to begin his struggle with the world. His 
first employment was found with the New York Cen- 
tral railroad as a messenger. In this humble position 
his faithfiil application and his natural capacity and 
intelligence were displayed so far as opportunity 
offered. They were rewarded, too, by successive pro- 
motions, until, after a lajjse of three years, young 
()'Day attained the jxjsition of shipping clerk. 

Though the main business of his life was to con- 
cern transportation interests, Mr. O'Day did not 
find railroading so congenial that he was satisfied to 
continue in that line. In lS(i.") the oil excitement in 
the rapidly develo])ing fields of l'enns\ bania perme- 
ated every part of the F^ast, and in Buffalo, .so near 
the scene of operations, the excitement was natur- 
ally inten.se. The shipping clerk became infected, 
resigned his position, ])acked his few belongings, and 
soon was in the thick of the fight. Perhaps because 
of his railroad training, perhaps by chance, his atten- 
tion was early directed to the transportation of oil. 
It was a great problem in those days. Railroads were 
few and hard to reach, and teaming was expen- 
si\e and a vexation to the soul. Pipe-lines hail been 



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projected, some of which had proved failures, whili 
others had shown that the method coidd l>e economic- 
ally and siiccessfiilly a])plied. Mr. O'Day early W- 
< anie connected with one of the pioneer lines, the 
Mmpire rrans|K>riaiion C"om|>any. So active was he 
in liirlheriiig its interests, so shr^rwil was his c'onn>rl, 
that he soon held an im|K)rtant |iosition 
in the com|)any. 

Mr. ()' Day's connection with the 
Standard (>il Comiwny dates from 1«7<I. 
It is largely to him that this jjreat com- 
lany owes its wonderful system of pijK- 
lines, which have their l>e};inninf,' at 
ihou.sands of wells scattered over thou 
.sands of acres of land, and which end at 
the seaboard. It wa.s some years at"ter 
pi|)e-Iines were successfully ii.sed to convey 
oil from the wells to refineries located in 
the oil country, that it was deomed pos- 
sible to trans|)ort this product over long 
distances by the same method. Daniel 
(•'Day was one of the first to suggest 
that this might be done. He saw no 
rea.son why the com|»any should not 
send its i)etroleum from the fields to 
the seaboarti through i)i])es, using pumps 
of great fon e as the motive power. 
This idea eventu:jlly resulted in the c on- 
struction of the line tlvit now extends 
from Olean, N. V., to Hayonne, N. |. 
Mr. O'Day is the virtual head of the 
mammoth pipe-line interests of the 
Stantlard Oil fompany. He is vice 
president of the Inited I'ipe-I.ines C'om- 
l>anv, and of the National Transit 
( "ompanv. 

Though .\lr. ( )'I)ay, long a liuffalonian. 
has moved to New York since the death 
of his first wife in 1X!)(I, he has .still 
large interests in the Queen City, and may l)e seen 
there freijuently. He is president of the IVo|>le's 
liank. of the (leneral T'.lectric Comiany, and of the 
Buffalo Natural (las Fuel t'om|Kiny. He is also 
interested in other concerns, and is a large owner of 
Ituffalo real estate. 

PERSOX.if. CnROXOLOGY—IXvilfl O' D.n 
Wtis horn a! Kilihsart, Ireland, F(hniar\ <1, 1S44 ■' 
7t'(is hroiijiht to this country (arly in life, tin! lived at 
Ellicottfille, N. )'.. /////// /.WV .• n-as with the .Wr.' 
York Central railroad, ISHJ-il') ; ivent to Pennsyl- 
vania oil fields in ISU.'i, and ultimately became man- 
ager of the Standard Oil Comf>any\< pipe-lines : mar- 
ried Louise A'eiciell of Boston in ISln and Mary Page 
(if Xova Scotia in IS.'i.'. 



TROBWCll piirh, though only forty-three years 
old, is one of the most distinguished of the men 
whose names ap|>ear u|K)n the annals of medicine in 
western New N'ork ; anil this is no slight distim tion, 
when the statement concerns a locality that has l>een 
the home iif >U( h teachers and prai liliutuTs of 




national reputation as .-Vusiin l-'linl, Frank Ha.stings 
Hamilton, James I'. White, and Juliu.s F. .Miner. 

Dr. I'ark might be taken .is an illustration of what 
Dr. Holmes says of the influence of a fine ancestry. 
His father, the Rev. Roswell I'ark, D. I)., graduated 
at the head of his cla.ss at Wi-st Point in lM:{tJ, and 
did im|>ortant work in the <or|)s of engineers of the 
Inited States army for some )ears : then Itei ame 
profes.sor of chemistry anti physics in the University 
of Pennsylvania : and finally entered the church and 
l>ecame, in lS."iL', founder and first president of 
Racine College. On the other side. Dr. Park is 
descended from a race with a l>ent, like that of 
R. I,. Stevenson, for engineering. His mother, 
Marv I!. Rildwin of Woburn, M.l.s.^.. was a d<x endani 



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of the lialdwin family, so many ijpresentatives 
of whiih l)e(:ame famous engineers in the eastern 
part of the country, and left monuments of their 
skill all along the Atlantic coast. Dr. Park's ances- 
tors on both sides were prominent in the War of 
Inde])endence, and several of them were officers. 




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With such a family history, it would not have 
been .surprising if Dr. Park had become an engineer. 
Instead, he decided to follow the study of medicine. 
After a general education at Racine College, he 
graduated from the Chicago Medical College (North- 
western University), adding to his preparation for his 
profession the valuable experience of two and a half 
years' service as interne in the two largest hospitals 
in Chicago. .At twenty-five Dr. Park began his 
work as a teacher, having received an ajipointment, in 
1877, as demonstrator of anatomy in the Woman's 
Medical College of Chicago. The ne.xt year he was 
appointed to the same jjosition, and later to that 
of assistant professor of anatomy, in the Chicago 



Medical College. In l.S,S2 he was made lecturer on 
surgery in the Rush Medical College. In 1883 he 
was called to the chair of surgery in the Buffalo 
Medical College: this position, with that of surgeon 
to the Buffalo CJeneral Hospital, he still holds. His 
ability as a teacher has been widely recognized. 

Dr. Park's reputation, however, is not 
confined to his work in the cla.ss-room 
and as a practitioner. If the record 
stopped here, it would leave out a very 
important part of his career. He is a 
deep student, and has won fame as a 
writer upon medical tojjics. The list of 
the papers that he has published in the 
last twelve years fills fourteen pages of 
manuscript. Among the chief items is a 
volume of " Lectures on Surgical Pathol- 
ogy," which appeared in 1892. He has 
in preparation, and will soon publish, a 
volume of lectures on the history of 
medicine ; and a treatise on surgery, in 
two vohmies, of which he is editor, and 
to which he has been a large contributor. 
He has written many encyclopedia ar- 
ticles and popular lectures. His signature 
appears at the foot of many of the med- 
ical articles in Johnson's " I'niversal 
Cyclopedia. ' ' He is a member of the 
Xew York Academy of Medicine, the 
.\merican Medical .\.s.sociation, the Amer- 
ican Surgical Association, the American 
Orthopedic As.sociation, the American As- 
sociation of Genito-Urinary Surgeons, the 
derman Congress of Surgeons (Deitfsehe 
(lesellsihaft fiir Cliinirgie), and x'arious 
other professional societies. He was 
made an honorary member of the Amer- 
ican Academy of Medicine in 1895, and 
is now ])resident of the Medical Society 
of the State of New York. He is a mem- 
l)er of all the local scientific societies. Among the 
degrees that he has received are A. M., Racine 
College, 1^7"); honorary M. D., Rush Medical 
College ( Lake Forest University), 1X92 : and honor- 
ary A. M., Harvard, ISil."). 

At the age of forty Dr. Park had attained a 
national re|)utation. He is not only a good student 
and a voluminous writer in his profession, l)ut is also 
a man of the world, actively concerned in every- 
thing that makes life interesting. He is a man of 
the widest sym])athy. His social nature, and the 
extent and diversity of his interests, appear in the 
fact that he has been an officer of the Buffalo, Saturn, 
and Cniversitv clubs of Buffalo : that he has been 



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president of the IliifTalo Musical Assoiiation ; that 
he is a member ot the I'nivtrsity and Reform ( liil)s 
of New V'ork city ; that he has been president of the 
'21st Ward (lood Government C'hib, and vice presi- 
dent of the Council of Confederated (lood (lovern- 
ment Chibs of Buffalo. In years past Dr. I'ark was 
for some time president of the Chicago Klectrical 
Society, and later of the HufTalo Microscopical 
Society. In ISil") Covernor Morton made him one 
of the managers of the Hiiffalo Slate Hospital. Dr. 
Park has al.so held many other positions of honor and 
responsibility. 

PERSONAL ClIROXOLOGY— Rom;// /'ark 
was horn at Pomfrel, Conn., May Ji, IS'i^ ; i^rai/it- 
alfil from Riidnf ( //'/.v. ) Collft^i- in lf>iJ, and from 
the L'hii'a^^o Mdlical Colle^^f loit/i the ilej^ree of Af. J), 
in 187(1 : married Martha J'. Durkee of Chieai^o 
June 1, ISSJ : served upon the faculty of 
the Woman's .\fedical L'olle::;e oj Chicago, 
the Chieai^o .\fedical Colles^e, and Rush 
Medical Colle^s^e, successirrly, 16' 1 7-A'.i ; 
was called to he professor of surgery in 
the medical department, L 'niTersity of Buf- 
falo, and sur>;;e<in to the Buffalo General 
Jloipital, in ISS-i : icas elected president of 
the Medical Society of the Stale of Xe^o 
York for ISIto-iHi. 

lUllliam 1>. iPltt has an imjiortant 
pla<e in the history of the |)etroleum 
industry, and is an excellent illustration 
of the truth that one of the chief factors 
in the material ilevelopment of our 
country to-day is the man of science. 
He was born and brought u|) on a farm — 
a circumstance that he has looked back 
upon not with regret, but with pleasure. 
The oldest boy in a farmer's family of 
ten children — more than half of them 
girls — is generally not overburdened 
with op|jortunities for advancement. So 
it was with young I'itt. His education 
had to be for the most (art what he 
made it himself, and he early determined 
that it should be the best jiossible imder 
the circumstances. He worked anil taught 
and studied, in an ordance with shifting 
conditions, for twelve years, fmally grad- 
uating from I'nion College in D<(i(). 
He was then twenty -eight years of age — 
somewhat older than the average collegiate at grad- 
uation : but he had been forced to interrupt his 
studies continually for the jnirpose of meeting his 
current e.\|)enses by means of teaching : and he had 



the solid and enduring .satisfaction of knowing that 
all the ex|ienses of his education had l>een |iaid by 
himself. 

Once through college, Professor Pitt returned to 
teaching, all the while continuing the study of 
various branc hi-s of science. He was princi|>al of 
the high school at S|jencer, N. \., for two years: 
then held a similar ))Osiiion at .Vngelica ( N. \' . ) 
.■\cademy ; next served as su|K'rintendent of education 
at Warren, ( )hio, for two years ; and then returned, 
as princijKd, to Friendship ( \. Y. ) Academy, where 
he had once taught. From there he came to KufTalo 
in September, 1S72, to take the i>rofe.s.sorship of 
physics and chemistry in the high school. He built 
up both cleiuirtments, added largely to their apjiara- 
tus, and finally resigned his |K)sition in IK'.IO, after 
eighteen years of useful work, on account of the 




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growing demands of other interests. He still re- 
tained, and yet occupies, the chair of general physics 
and chemistry in the medical de|>artment of Niagara 
L'niversitv, to whic h he w,xs called in 1SM4. 



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Professor Pitt, during all these years of teaching, 
was still a student, devoting his leisure moments to 
scientific research. In ISfio Union College gave 
him the degree of A. M.: in 1.S7!) the medical de- 
partment. University of Buffalo, that of M. D. ; and 
in 188(1 Alfred University that of Ph. D. His 
scientific knowledge furnished at last the basis of 
important developments in the petroleum fields. He 
became interested in the subject of oil at the time 
of the early excitement in Pennsylvania, and studied 
carefully the geological and chemical problems relat- 
ing to the i)rodiiction and the manufacture of oil. 
His suggestion that oil would be found further north 
and east of the Oil Creek district was followed by 
the opening of the Bradford field in 1876. In 1880 
he declared that petroleum existed along the line 
dividing the head waters of the Allegheny and Gene- 
see rivers. His theory led O. P. Taylor, the pio- 
neer of the Allegany county field, to " wild-cat " in 
the locality pointed out by Professor Pitt. An im- 
mensely rich territory was discovered, Richburg and 
Bolivar sjjrang into fame as oil towns, and millions 
of dollars' worth of oil was produced : all of which 
redounded to Professor Pitt's reputation for excellent 
judgment, but was otherwise of no advantage to him. 

But he was more fortunate later in profiting from 
the fruits of his knowledge. For a long time the 
oil produced in the Ohio and Canadian fields was of 
little use, except for fuel, on account of the large 
proportion of sulphur that it contained. Professor 
Pitt apjilied himself to the problem of utilizing this 
nearly valueless [iroduct. .After many fruitless experi- 
ments, he at last hit on a |iractical method of refining 
the oil : and the result has been a revolution in the 
petroleum industry in Ohio. Formerly the Lima 
oil was sold at fifteen cents a l)arrcl. To-day certifi- 
cates for the same oil are sold at die c\c hanges for 
about ninety cents. If the man who makes two 
blades of gra.ss grow where only one grew before is 
a public benefactor, the man who invents a jiroccss 
by \vhich any of the earth's jiroducts are made 
doubly usefiil should be jjlaced in the same categor\ . 
Professor Pitt's ])rocess is in use, with entire success. 
at the Paragon Oil Refinery at Toledo, Ohio, of 
which he is the ( onsulting chemist. This position 
and his duties as lecturer at Niagara University have 
occupied all his attention in recent years. 

Professor Pitt has written mostly on scientili< 
questions. Papers from his pen ha\e appeared in the 
Buffalo Medical Journal M\<\ other periodicals, and 
in the proceedings of the American Association for 
the .\dvancement of Science. He has described and 
illustrated several new fossils from the water-lime 
formation in the neighborhood of Buffalo — among 



them the first jjteregotus, it is believed, found in this 
country. He has belonged to the Buffalo Society of 
Natural Sciences for many years, doing original 
work on the Journal and adding specimens of his 
own discovery to the society's collections. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G Y— J I 'illiam Hud- 
son Pitt was horn at Short Tract, X. Y., September 
8, 18S1 ; prepared for college at Alfred (iV. }'. ) 
Academy, and graduated from Union College, Schenec- 
tady, A'. Y. , in 1860 : married Mary Elizabeth 
Church of Eriendship, N. )'., May 18, 18(>1; -was 
superintendent of education at Warren, Ohio, 1867- 
68 : 7C'as professor of physics and chemistry in the 
Buffalo High School, lS7^-!)0 ,■ laas State Analyst of 
Eoods and Drugs, 1881-82 ,■ has been professor of 
general chemistry and physics in the medical depart- 
ment of Niagara University since May 26, 188^. 



GbarlCS H. IPOOlC? '^ known as one of the 
.soundest lawyers in the city of Buffalo. It is no 
small praise to say this, for it is an undisputed fact 
that the liar of Buffalo contains among its members 
some of the best lawyers in the state of Xew York. 
To win a recognized place among these legal lights 
one must be well-read in the law, and must be able 
to apply legal principles correctly and promptly to 
all questions arising. 'The fact that the firm of 
which Mr. Pooley has long been an active and dis- 
tinguished member cares for large corporate interests 
is itself a guarantee that he is an able and astute 
lawyer. 

.Mr. l'oole\- lias alua\s lived in Buffalo. He at- 
tended Public School No. 1, and graduated from the 
Central High School in the class of US?."). This 
was the end of his scholastic training. Upon his 
graduation he entered the lumber business, in which 
he continued for three years. Not finding this em- 
])lovmeiU strictly congenial and having an amliition 
to adopt a profession for which he felt a spei ial ajui- 
tude, Mr. Pooley began the study of law on January 1, 
1X7(1. Devoting himself diligently to Blackstone 
and Kent, he was admitted to the full privileges of 
the bar in .\pril, IS7il. He began at once the 
active practice of law in connection with the firm of 
Failing, McMillan i<: (lluck, having completed his 
studies in the office of the late Senator A. P. lean- 
ing. He has continued with that firm through its 
\arious changes — Oreene, McMillan iV (iluck, 
M.Millan, (;iii<k iS; Pooley. and McMillan. Oliuk. 
Pooley iV Depcw — to the present time. 

As an evidence of the high esteem in which Mr. 
Pooley is held by his fellow -members of the bar, the 
fai t mav be cited that when a vacancy occurred on 
the bene h of the Su])reme Court fiir the .Hth judicial 



MF.X or \/:W VOUK—WF.STEKX sF.cr/ox 



district, caused by the elevation of Judge Allicrt 
ilaifjht to the Court of Aiijteals on January 1, Usy.'), 
Mr. l^oolev was strongly endorsed for the appoint- 
ment. The |)etition to (lovernor Morton in his 
favor was signed t)y lawyers of all shades of political 
opinion ; anil the mere fact that he was endorsed in 
this manner to succeed a jurist of the 
recognized standing of Judge llaight is 
as great a compliment as < ould well l>e 
\a\A to a man of his profes.sion. That 
he was not appointed was undoubtedly 
ilue largely to political exigencies, Gov- 
ernor Morton deeming it best to select 
for the place a man from another jiart of 
the judicial district. In the summer of 
lx)t") Mr. Pooley was prominently men- 
tioned as a candidate for the Republican 
nomination to a place on the bench of 
the .Su|)reme Court. 

.Mr. Pooley is a trustee of the law 
library of the Hth judicial district, having 
been ap|X)inted to that honorable position 
by the .Su|)reme Court. lie has likewise 
lieen a director of the HulTiilo library 
serving for three years. 

.Mways a faithful worker in the interest 
of anv < au.se with whi( h he has connecteil 
himself, Mr. Pooley has been highly hon- 
ored by the Free Ma.sons. He is a Past 
.Master of DeMolay Lodge, No. 4!l«, and 
.served a term as District Oeputy Crand 
Master of the Masons of the state of New 
York for the 25th .Masonic district. 

rr.RSOXAL CHROXOLOG } ' — 

Vhiirles A. Pooley 7inis horn at Buffalo 

Xifeml'cr l~i , IS.'i.', : was eiU(fatfil in tlif 

l>ul>lii- Sihools of Buffalo : rn^^aj^eil in /lie 

lumber business, 187S-7o ; was aitmitteil 

to the bar in April, 1810 ,• niarrieil Carrie 

Atlams, ilaui^hter of S. Carv Ailanis of Buffalo, June 

4, 1SS4 •' /'■'■'' praeticeil hno sinee l.SlH with the firm 

of MeMillan, Gluck, Pooley &• />(/<•;. • <///-/ their 

preiieeessors. 

♦♦♦ 

CV>rU£< 1l\. IPortCr has made an honorable rep- 
utation in two distinct lines of activity. He has 
been a successful architect and builder, and he is the 
founder of the order of Royal Templars of TemiK'r- 
ance. His life has been twofold, having been de- 
voted both to his vocation and to movements for the 
iiplifting of his fellow-men. Practical work and ju- 
dicious philanthropy have occupied his time and 
thought ; and self-seeking has had no |ilace in his 
plans for the betterment of sncietv. Recognizing 



the great evil that lies at the root of so much htunan 
niLsery and crime, he has comliated this evil in jjuIi- 
lic and private with every rational wea|)on at his 
command. He has not allowed himself to be c arried 
away by the cause he advocates, but has avoided 
fanatic ism, and ap|K.-aled to the rea.son of men. 




( II tRt ns .1 pnoi.KV 

Though a native of New York state, Mr. Porter is 
of an old New lingland family that has contributed 
generation alter generation to the ranks of the c oun- 
try's scholars and public men. His education was 
obtained in common schools, and, as he characteris- 
tically says, " in the workshoji." He began his 
apprenticeshi]) as a builder on the day Ceneral Tay- 
lor was elected President — Noveml>er 7, 1H48. 
Having ma.stered the mechanical |>art of building, he 
next undertook the theoretical study of the subjec t, 
and in clue time he became an architec t. lor two 
years he was employed in the office of the resident 
engineer of the Chic ago waterworks. Husiness then 
took him to the province of Ontario, and ten years 
ela|>sed before he returned to western New York. 



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MEN OF NEW YORK— WESTERN SECTION 



It was in 1865 that Mr. Porter came to Buffalo to 
live. The American block, which had just been de- 
stroyed in a memorable fire, was then rebuilding, 
and he was made superintendent of constniction in 
connection with that work. In the following year 
he formed a ])artnership with H. M. Wilcox under 




CYKvs a: porter 

the firm name of Wilcox & Porter ; l)ut he soon 
l)0ught out his partner's interest, and has since car- 
ried on his profession alone or in company with his 
son. He has paid particular attention to designing 
schoolhouses, churches, and jniblic buildings, such 
as permit the cxerci.se of bold ideas and original con- 
ceptions. He has frequently competed for public 
buildings, and has won several important premiums 
— notal)ly the second premium for the Wax, State, 
and Navy Department Building at Washington and 
a like premium for the City Hall, Quebec, Canada. 
Among the prominent buildings of Buffalo planned 
and constructed by him are Trinity Church, St. Pat- 
rick's Church, the new municipal buildings, and the 
Builders' Exchange. 



Mr. Porter has been no less active in the cause of 
temperance than in the practice of his profession. 
He is among the foremost reformers in devising 
methods of promoting sobriety in all classes of the 
]jeople. His work in this direction has attracted the 
attention of the Prohibition party, which has placed 
him in nomination several times upon its 
ticket. He has always been a Repub- 
lican, having cast his first ballot for John 
P. Hale, in 1852. He is not, however, 
a hidebound member of that party, but 
has exercised the high prerogative and 
duty of "scratching" the names of ob- 
jectionable candidates. 

The fraternal side of Mr. Porter's 
character is evidenced in the number of 
societies to which he belongs. He is an 
Odd Fellow, a Free Mason, a Good 
Templar, a Son of Temperance, a United 
Workman, and a Royal Templar of Tem- 
perance. All his leisure has been spent 
in temperance work, the one interest he 
has had at heart outside the practice of 
his profession. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— 
Cyrus Kinne Porter was born at Cicero, 
N. y., August 27, 1838 ; was educated 
in common schools ; learned the builders' 
trade, and became an architect in 1855 ; 
founded the order of Royal Templars of 
Temperattce in 1870 ; 7cient to Buffalo in 
1865, and has practiced his profession 
there since. 



pascal IP. Pratt has added lustre 

and jjrestige to a family name already so 

distinguished that the mere maintenance 

of the patronymic unimpaired would have 

been a noteworthy achievement. When 

the century now closing had barely begun to run its 

course Captain Samuel Pratt, grandfather of Pascal 

P. Pratt, brought his family from Vermont to Buffalo 

in an old-fashioned coach, said to be the first carriage 

ever seen in Krie county. Captain Pratt had an 

imi)ortant part in shaping the frontier history of 

Buffalo, and his sons, one of whom was twice mayor 

of Buffalo, contributed their share in making the 

family name a part of the best history of western 

New York. 

Pascal P. Pratt, so descended, really deserves three 
biographies — one as a business man, another as a 
banker, and a third, perhaps most important of all, 
as a public-spirited citizen. Regarding him first 
from a business standpoint, we may note the tact 



AfEX or XEir VOKK—ll'ESTKKX SEC7/OX 



that he began his commercial life, in the hardware 
business, at the ajje of sixteen, after havinj,' made the 
most of educational opportunities that would now be 
deemed scanty. In this business he remained as 
clerk and partner for half a century, finally retiring 
from the famous firm of Pratt \' Co. in IHM."), in 
order to tlevote more time to banking duties that 
were becoming increasingly burdensome. Side by 
side with the hardware business there grew up under 
Mr. Pratt's masterful hands other industrial concerns 
hardly less important. Ihe house of Pratt & Letch- 
worth, founded in 1M4."), and the Buffalo Iron & Nail 
Comjany, organized in IK'jT, are cases in point. 
Without resort to details, Mr. Pratt's business life 
may be characterized a.s having been ideally success- 
ful : he has furnished lucrative and pleasant employ- 
ment to thousands of contented workmen, and he 
has at the same time secured a fair return 
for invested ca|>ital. 

.-Vs a banker .Mr. Pratt's career has been 
equally distinguished. With the .Manu- 
facturers' and Traders' Bank of Buffalo he 
has been identified from the very begin- 
ning, over forty years ago, when he »;is 
made director and vice president. The 
latter ottice he held until 1S85, when he 
was elected to his present office, that of 
president. He has al.so been a director 
of the liank of Buffalo, of the Third 
National liank of Buffalo, and of the 
Bank of .Attica. 

Most interesting to the general reader, 
and perhaps most |)leasing to himself, is 
Mr. Pratt's life on the side of public ser- 
vices and civic honor. .-K list of the 
offices of trust and resjjonsibility helil by 
him would quite exhaust the s|jace at our 
disposal. Educational and religious in- 
stitutions, political and charitable organ- 
izations, as well as the city and the state, 
have asked him freely for the benefit of 
his business sagacity, mature judgment, 
and rii)e ex|x;rience. The Buffalo Female 
.\cademy, the Young Men's Christian .As- 
sociation, the North Presbyterian Chun h. 
the Buffalo Orphan .Asylum, and numer- 
ous other institutions of his native i ity 
have been greatly aided in their work 
by his head and heart. Well might a 
careful biographer, in siunming up the 
character of .Mr. Prait. write the following: ".A 
just and devoted husband and father, a true friend, 
and active in all the years of a pure and usefiil life in 
whatever would inure to the lienefit of humanitv, no 



man better represents the character of the good citi- 
zen. And thus it is that the city of Buffalo, gratefiilly 
appreciating his devotion to its Itest interests, and the 
example of a stainless life, honors him, in the dignity 
of his manhood, with its confidence and res|)ect." 

J'JIKSDX.IL C7/A'i)XO/. OG)— Pnu.i/ l\wli 
I'nitI 7iuis /'oni at Jhiffiilo Sffli-mfirr l.'i, ISIU . nuis 
(iliicated at Hamilton ( X. Y. ) Acaiifiny aiiJ at 
Amhfrst ( Mass. ) Academy ; marrifj Phoebe Lorenz 
of Pitts/>inx Se/item/ier 1, hSJ^') . 7i'as a Kepuf'/iian 
presidential elector in JS7~.', chairman of the Huffalo 
Park Commission from lSii!» to 1S7H, and one of the 
three commissioners appointed hy the Supreme Court in 
1883 to appraise the value of the property taken hy the 
state for the Reservation at Xia\^ara Falls : has heen 
president of the Manufacturers' and Traders' Pank of 
Buffalo since 1885. 




P.ISC.IL P. I'te.ITT 

C C 'RaIll3^Cll 's one ol the most widely 
known men in liiin.dci to-day. Cnlike many of the 
prominent citizens of this changing and rapidly 
growing lily, Mr. Ramsdell ».i» I.nrn iml iilu. nti-il 



fiS 



MEX or .\F.lf )'()RK — Ul-:STKh\\ SF.CT/O.X 



here, and has spent his whole life here ; and he gives 
to the many enterprises for the advancement of his 
native city that hearty co-operation and interest 
which might be expected from one of her loyal sons. 
As a boy he attended the public schools of the 
city, and later spent three years in Professor Rriggs's 




THOMAS T. RAMSniill. 

classical school, from which he graduated in 1871. 
In V6~i'.\ he began his business life as a clerk in the 
wholesale boot and shoe house established by his 
father in 1887, and he has ever since been connected 
with this firm. At that time the business was con- 
ducted by his father, (Jrrin P. Ramsdell, and by 
W. W. Walker. In 1X77 iVIr. Walker retired from 
the firm, and T. T. Ramsdell and his brother, Albert 
\., were taken into partnership. .Mbert N. Rams- 
dell ilied in the following year, and in 1K79 W. C, 
(i. W. , and S. M. Sweet were admitted to the firm, and 
the business took the i)resent style of ( ). H. Ramsdell, 
Sweet & Co. (). 1'. Ramsdell and (;. W. Sweet 
have since died, and 'I'. 'I'. Ramsdell is nou the 



.senior member of the firm. To the maintenance and 
development of this already extensive and prosperous 
business, Mr. Ramsdell has devoted himself with per- 
sistent energy ; and as a result the firm to-day is one of 
the most solid and highly respected in Buffalo, and 
one of the largest of western New York in its line. 

Mr. Ram.sdell has never sought nor 
held political office, but his interest in 
jjolitical affairs is keen, and his influence 
is always exerted on the side of good 
government and needed reform. He is 
an active member of the Republican 
League, which he served as president in 
1^94, and to which he devotes much time 
and energy. 

He is also jjromineiU in all the nio\e- 
nients for enhancing the prosperity of his 
native city. The great scheme for bring- 
ing Niagara Falls water power to Buffalo 
is a notable case in point. When this 
was only an idea, Mr. Ramsdell foresaw 
the immen.se industrial, domestic, and 
municipal benefits inherent in the scheme, 
and he identified himself actively with the 
promotion of the project — with the prac- 
ticalization of the idea. He was ap- 
pointed a member of Mayor Jewett's 
advisor)' committee to consider the prac- 
tical business use of the great power within 
the limits of Buffalo. Mr. Ramsdell is 
a direi:tor of the EUicott S(|uare Com- 
pany, the corporation that erected the 
iniicott Square Building, which is one of 
the finest architectural features of the 
city of Buffalo. He is also a director of 
the Merchants' Exchange, of the Board 
of Trade, and of the Bell Telephone 
Company of Buffalo. 

Mr. Ramsdell has not confined his 
attention to projects for the material 
pros])erity of the city. He is a member of the 
Westminster Church, the Buffalo Library, the Buffalo 
Historical Society, the Bufifalo Fine Arts Academy, 
and the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. He is 
a director of the lUiffalo Ceneral Hospital. Mem- 
bership in the Buffalo Press Club, the Country Club, 
and the IJuffalo Club, evidences his interest in social 
matters, and rounds out on an im]X)rtaiit side his 
character as a successful business man and public- 
spirited citizen. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Thomas T. 
Ramsdell 7cias horn at Buffalo March lo, 185 Jf ; 
:^railuate(l from the Buffalo Classical School in 187 1 ; 
lici^aii I'usiness in I87-I as a clerk for O. I'. Rivnulell 



.\//:\ (>/■■ .\/:ii- )(>A'A—n-Ksn^f!.y s/:cr/<)x 



(19 



o?" Ct>. , ivholesale ilealas in bmUs, shoes, ami ruhhfis : 
hfcame partner in this firm in 1877 ; organized the 
present firm of O. /'. RamsJell, Sweet or* Co. in 
187!t : married Louise Miller of Ster/ini;, III. , Xo- 
vemher U), ISSI. 

3atnC5 a. IRol^CrtS l>e{,'an life in the lack- 
wooil.s ul Maine, lie «a.-> "raised on a farm," as 
the saying is — a statement that conveys to all Amer- 
icans a mental ima^e |perle( tly intellij,'il>le and mean- 
ingful. He resolved to obtain a i ollege education, 
and to effect this he underwent the most rigorous 
.self-denial. He taught school in winter, worked in 
the fields in summer, and |)racticed the strictest 
economy at all times. .\t one |)arti< ularly trying 
stage of his <ollege finances he < ontracted to haul a 
large numlier of logs to market, and ful- 
fdled the contract on time l>y arising at 
four o'clock every morning and starting 
into the woods wit!i two yoke of oxen. 

If it he true, as some comiK-tent judges 
a.s.sert, that a young man who enters col- 
lege with plenty of money to s|K.'nil is 
really handica|>|ied thereby in the race 
for college honors, we may untlerstand 
why our teacher-farmer-contractor stu- 
dent was able to graduate from Howdoin 
at the head of his class. 

< )ne reason for this .success, in the face 
of obstacles that would have disheartene<l 
most men, may be found in the fa< t that 
young Roberts brought to his college 
duties a matured mind and a « hara< ter 
that had been strengthenetl by exi)eri- 
ences (|uite unusual in the case of .so 
young a man. When he would naturally 
haxe entered i ollege the fi\ il War wa.-. 
raging fiercely, and he determinul to e\ 
t hange his books for the soldier's knap 
sack. He enlisted in 1K64, when only 
.seventeen, in the 7th .Maine batlerv, and 
served with the .-Vrmy of the I'otomai 
until the surrender at .\|)|)omatto\. 

.\fter lea\ing college Mr. Roberts 
taught school in Portland for one year 
and in Buffalo for three years, studying 
law at the s;ime time. He abandoned 
teaching on his admi.ssion to the bar, 
and devoted all his energy to the practice 
iif law and the promotion of various busi- 
ness enterprises. .\t that time Muflalo was about to 
enter upon a jKjriod of extraordinary growth in |m)i>ii- 
lation and of wide ex|>ansion in industrial affairs, and 
she needed professional men of the highest (lass to 



complement her material prosi>erity. Mr. Rol>erts 
was (|uick to realize the significan»e of these con- 
ditions and to take advantage of them, and he .soon 
liecame prominently identified with the city of his 
adoption. Coinc identally with wide learning, lit- 
erary culture, and intelleitual attributes of a high 
order, .Mr. RoU-rts |)os.ses.ses an intensely practical 
turn of mind, which has lieen of the utmost value in 
his professional work and in his highlv siiccessfiil 
business ojierations. In the organization and the 
coniluct of lianking, street -rail road, electrii -lighting, 
and real -estate cnterpris«s, Mr. Rolierts has shown 
a marked genius for business. 

In |>oli(ical life .Mr. Rolierts has attained decided 
success without the sacrifu e of self-res|>ect or of any 
<|uality that .should lie dearer than the Iili-hi-vi miMsure 




j.i.\ti:s .1. ROrtF.RTS 

of success as sometinu-s c-slimaleil. He has not 
always lieen prominently iK-fore the piiblii in ,ioliti- 
cal matters, but he has always lieen allied with the 
best clement of his |i;irtv, and has ilwavs given that 



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MEN OF XF.IV YORK— WESTER X SECTfOX 



element the wisest and most jjatriotic counsel. He 
has been an ardent civil-service reformer, and has 
done yeoman's service in the advance of that cause. 
As comptroller of the state of New York, Mr. Rob- 
erts has splendidly improved the opportunity to show 
how important that office may be made in the hands 



188^ ; was representative in the state asse/nbly, 1879- 
80 ; was elected comptroller of the state of New York 
in 1803, and was re-elected in 1895. 




St/Eli.\tA.\ S. KUGEh'.S 

of a capable and a thoroughly upright jniblir official. 
Without attempting the difficult feat of forecasting 
the political future, the statement may safely be made 
that Mr. Roberts' career in the world of politics 
has not yet reached its zenith, if honesty of jjurpose, 
independence of character, fearlessness of judg- 
ment, and broad-minded statesmanshij) of tlie highest 
type count for anything with the peojilc of the 
Empire State. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— James A. 
Roberts was horn at Waterhoro, Me., March 8, ISJfl ; 
fitted for college at Auburn, Me., and graduated from 
Bo7vdoin in 1870 ; was admitted to the bar at Buf- 
falo in 1875 ; married Minnie Pinco of Calais, Me. , 
in 1871, and Martha Dresser of Auburn, Me., in 



Sbermau S. IROgcrS has served the law and 
his fellow men all his days. He began the endless 
study of legal science at an early age, 
and enjoyed an important practice before 
young men nowadays have received their 
diplomas. After practicing three years 
in his native town of Bath, N. Y., Mr. 
Rogers sought the wider opportunities 
promised in the city of Buffalo. This 
was in 1854 when Buffalo contained 
fewer than 50,000 people, but when evi- 
dences of its later greatness were clearly 
apparent. There Mr. Rogers has lived 
for more than forty years — a shining 
light in his profession, an ornament to 
his city, and a distinguished honor to 
his state and country. 

Of Mr. Rogers as a practitioner hardly 
any words of praise could be deemed ex- 
travagant. The Buffalo bar has a very 
splendid history, and includes among its 
illustrious members two presidents and 
many famous jurists ; but it may be said 
without fear of contradiction that Mr. 
Rogers' success as a lawyer in western 
New York has rarely or never been sur- 
passed. Rogers, Bowen & Rogers, 
Bowen, Rogers & Locke, and Rogers, 
Locke & Milburn have been names to 
conjure with in the annals of the Buffalo 
bar ; and the subject of this sketch has 
been a tower of strength to these firms as 
regards weight of legal counsel, brilliancy 
of pleading, and solidity of clientage. 
The lawyer's calling, more than any 
other, paves the way for political preferment, and 
abundant evidence of this may be found in the career 
before us. Early in life Mr. Rogers was a Democrat 
in political belief, but at the outbreak of the Civil 
War he became a Republican, and has so remained. 
At various times Mr. Rogers has been strongly sup- 
ported for high political offices, such as the governor- 
ship and the United States .senatorship, and these 
might easily have come to him under conditions 
slightly different. Political and personal independ- 
ence, however, and absolute integrity, such as char- 
acterize Mr. Rogers, are not the best motive power 
in the operation of office-actuated "machines." 
Whenever the |)0]nilar voice has been heard, the 
tone has been loud and unmistakable. In 1S7">, for 



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71 



example, Mr. Rogers consented to nm as state sen- 
ator in a district that had gone heavily Democratic 
two years before, and in which Reinililican defeat 
seemed inevitable ; hut he was elected by the largest 
majority ever given to a senatorial candidate in 
the district. In the same way, when he ran for 
lieutenant governor, he received more votes than 
any other candidate on the ticket. 

.Mr. Rogers' influence in national politics has 
Iwen felt through his active and consistent advocacy 
of reform in the civil service. Kor many ye<irs he 
has been a member of the executive committee of the 
National Civil Service Reform League, rendering great 
service under the captaincy of his intimate (x-rsonal 
friend, the late George William I'urtis. .Mr. Rogers 
has in fact for years been deemed in Hufl^ilo the typical 
anti-spoilsman, having been president of 
the local reform organization, as well as 
an officer in the National League. To 
no other citizen does Buffalo owe so much 
for its place in the front rank of civ- 
ilized communities as regards the dis- 
tribution of mimici]>al ]«tronagj. 

Mr. Rogers has been a dirci tor of the 
Bell Telephone Comiiany of BufTalo, 
director and vice president of the Rink 
of Buffalo, ])resident of the Fine .Arts 
Academy, and president of the board of 
trustees of Calvary Presbyterian Church. 
He has been prominently identified with 
almost every literary and benevolent so- 
ciety in BufTalo, and with the intelligent 
and cultured side of the city in general. 

Mr. Rogers has found time in the in- 
tervals of his busy life as a lawyer and a 
statesman to cultivate the arts. He is a 
connois.seur in |>ainting and music, and 
his literary style is most charming. 
Unfortunately for his admirers, it is only 
in occasional addres.ses and now and then 
in a magazine article that he has dis- 
])layed his gifts in |)ure literature. 

PERSONAL CHR OXOL OGY — 
SJterman S. Rogers was horn at Bath, 
N. v., April It;, 18.W : prefiartii for 
collfg^f, but (ntereJ a hni< offitf at the agf of 
sixteen without further scholastie training : 
married Christina Cameron Davenport of 
Bath January 6", ISoS : was appointed a 
member of the commission to revise the con- 
stitution of the state of X'no York in 1S~J ; ivas elected 
state senator in 1875 ; was nominated for lieutenant 
gm'ernor in 1S70, on the ticket headed by E. D. 
Morgan : has practiced law in Buffalo since ISiiJ/. 



CbilliCt> H. 'KlHip «a.s thrown on his own re- 
sources early in life, and l)cgan his business career 
when he was fifteen years old. How well he has 
.succeeded in his eflbrt.s to build up a business every 
resident of BufTalo knows, l-'or many years he has 
l>een closely identified with the liest interests of the 
city, and many flouri.shing enterprises are due to his 
sagacity, energy, and faith. /Xs a young man he was 
not averse to turning his hand to any honorable 
occui>ation however lowly. l)uring the war anil 
while attending the jniblic schools he sold |xi|jers on 
the streets, and worked at various small jobs. His 
first itermanent employment, however, was as a 
"trotter " for the oUl Buffalo City Bank, whi< h was 
located in the .Ktna building on Commercial street. 
This section of the city was then ili<- IniNlri.-s , ■nt.r. 




// (A-/ / s ( k-t IT 



for the chief material interests of the town were in 
its lake and <anal trade. It was only natural for .Mr. 
Rupp to drift into employment connected with this 
trade, and he was soon hard at work as a tallyman 



MEX OF NEW yORK—}ll-:STER.\ SECT/OX 



and clerk for forwarding firms. It is seldom that a 
young man at the outset of life finds the business to 
which he is best suited, and Mr. Rupp was not so 
favored. He soon abandoned the forwarding busi- 
ness, and worked as a clerk in a dry-goods store and 
later in a variety store ; and it was not until 1868 
that he found the vocation in which he was to make 
liis mark. 

In the year mentioned he was em])loyed b\ Henr\ 
Rumrill, a leading contractor and liuilder, to keep 
his books and to act as confidential clerk. He liked 
the business, and soon evinced an ambition to 
acquaint himself with its practical details. To 
accomplish this he attended night schools of archi 
tecture and mechanical drawing, and even worked 
for a time at bricklaying. His enthusiasm, ambition, 
and determination to master the jiractical knowledge 
nece.ssary to become a contractor found encourage- 
ment from his employer, and in 1H74 he was ad- 
mitted to a partnership. This lasted for fifteen years, 
or until Mr. Rumrill sold his interest to his son, 
Henry Rumrill, jr. The firm name of Rumrill it 
Ru])p remained unchanged until 18!I.'!, when the 
partnershij) was dissolved. Since then Mr. Rupp 
has conducted his business alone as a mason, builder, 
and contractor. Many extensive contracts ha\e 
been successfiilly carried out by Mr. Rupp and his 
partners, and their work has found a place in a large 
number of the best buildings that adorn the city of 
Huffalo. 

Mr. Rujjp has been acti\e in politics, and his 
advice and support have been eagerly sought by his 
party. His entrance into publii life was made in 
IXHl, when he was elected an alderman from the 
11th ward. He .served two years. For the next 
seven years he held no public office, but in IKilU he 
wa.s ap])ointed a civil-service commissioner. This 
|)Osition carries with it a great deal of hard work 
and no corresponding recompense beyond thegrali 
tude of all believers in honest, efficient government, 
and the satisfaction involved in the faithfiil discharge 
of duty. When the citizens of Buffalo rose in their 
might, in 1IS!)4, and vindicated the |)rin( i])le of home 
rule, Mr. Rupp was apjjointed one of the jjolice and 
excise commissioners. Their first duty was to 
cleanse the police force of the city of partisan 
politics, and Mr. Rupp had an important part in 
this work. In the fall of 1'H<I4 he ran for the office 
of commissioner of public works, but shared in the 
general defeat of his party at that time. 

Mr. Rupp has been active in various other direc- 
tions. He is a Ma.son and a Knight Templar, and 
is active in a number of business a.ssociations. He 
is president of the liuilders' l'",xchange Asso< iation. 



a stock company that owns the fine building occupied 
b\' the Builders' Exchange. That project was carried 
to a successful completion largely thro\igh the efforts 
of Mr. Rupp. He has been vice president of the 
National Association of Builders of the United 
States, and was elected president thereof at the con- 
\ention held in Baltimore in October, 1895. 

Some years of Mr. Rupp's life were devoted in 
part to the State (aiard. He enli.sted as a private 
before the war closed, and held various positions, 
finally becoming lieutenant colonel of the 65th regi- 
ment in 187."). He resigned after a service of 
thirteen vears. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G Y— Charles Albert 
Rupp ivas born at Buffalo April 1, 1850 ; attended 
the district schools : married A^ellie Pilot of Bi/(f'al<> 
September 11, 187 J, and Anna T. Henafelt of Buf- 
falo October 2, 1880 ; was elected alderman on the 
Democratic ticket in 1881 : mas appointed a civil- 
service commissioner in June, 1890, and a police and 
excise commissioner March 1, ISHJ/ .■ entered the 
service of Jfenrv Rumrill, builder and contractor, in 
iSiiS, and formed a partnership loitli him in 187. 'f : 
has bee// in business alone, as builder anl contractor, 
since IS!).;. 



Stcpbcn IDinceut IRgan, bishop of the cath- 
olic diocese of Buffalo, is revered li\ the priests 
under his authority, belo\ed liy all his people, and 
honored by all classes in the city of which he has for 
nearly thirty years been a resident. Strict in his ex- 
action of church authority, firm in his control of the 
great interests in his charge, he has yet no harshne.ss 
in his character, and benevolence and kindness are 
the foimdation stones of his rule. His infiuence is 
naturallv most weighty ; and his voice is always 
heard in behalf of whatever makes for the highest 
moral welfare of the comnnmity. 

.\ little Canadian town, .\lmonte, Ontario, was 
the birthplace of Stephen \'incent Ryan, and Janu- 
ary 1, lcS25, was his natal day. When he was yet a 
child his i)arents removed to i'ottsville, Penn., and 
there \oung Ryan sjjent his youth. He was early 
attracted to the priesthood, and when his parents 
consented to fall in with his bent, he was sent to 
St. Charles's Seminary at Philadelphia for a classical 
course. This was in 1840, While there he made 
the ac(|uaintance of the fathers of the Mission of St. 
Viment de Paul, and expressed a desire to enter 
their community. In 1844 he was .sent to their col- 
lege at Cape Oirardeau, Mo., and afterward to St. 
.Mary's of the Barrens, Perry county. Mo., when that 
instittition became the mother house of the Vincen- 
tians. \\'hile at Philadelphia he served as one of the 



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;:{ 



aiolylcs in the talhcdral at that place, and thu.-. had 
the honor of |)artici|)atin{r in the consecration of 
Hishop Kenrick. When Mr. Ryan was ordained to 
the priesthood in St. Vincent's Chunh, St. Louis, 
Ar<hl)ishop Kenrick conducted the auj,'ust ceremony, 
h'ather Ryan at once entereil upon the disi har^e of 
the duties pertaining to his holy order, 
anil hroujiht to them rare intelligence anil 
unllagging industry. He was untiring in 
his ilevotion to the interests of the order 
of the Mission, and it was not long before 
he took a leading |)art in the grand work 
carried on hy the I.a/arist fathers. In 
IX")? he was ajipointed \'isitor, or head, 
of the order in the I'nited States. To 
him was due the successfid establishment 
at (Jermantown, I'enn., of the X'incentian 
Seminary, which is now the headi|uarters 
of the Vincentian army of devoted mis- 
sionaries, the mother house of the Ka.stern 
Provin<e, and the residence of the \'isitor 
of the oriler in .America. On several 
occasions l-'ather R)an cros.sed the ocean 
to consult with the Sujjerior (leneral of the 
order in Paris concerning the welfare of 
the N'incentian congregation in .Vmeriia. 

I'alher Ryan's eminent success in all 
matters placed in his care had attracted 
so much attention that when Hisho]) 
Timon of the Buffalo diocese died in 
l.SliT it was freely prophesied that Father 
Ryan would he his succes.sor. His ap- 
pointment came from th^ Holy See a 
little later, and he was duly consecrated 
November M, IMIJH. His administration 
of the constantly growing diocese of Buf- 
falo has met with the entire approval of 
his su|)eriors, and, as has been said, he 
has endeared him.selfto priests and |>eople 
alike. His wonderful |>opularity was shown a few 
years since, on his return from a journey to Rome, 
when he received a welcome home such as is extended 
to but few men. The churches in this great diocese 
number more than one hunilred ami sixty and the 
priests more than two hundred. I nder his zealous 
care there have grown up three seminaries, five 
colleges, twenty academies, over seventy [larochial 
schools, and seventeen i haritable institutions. 

/'/•:A\S0X.^L C7/A'0X0/.0(;y— .S/rf/iffi Im 
cftU Ryan iluh horn January 1, IS'^.'i, at Almonlf, 
Out. : 7i'(/.f /iiAy/i fiy his parents luhen a chiU to 
Potls-rillf, Pi-iin., 7ohcrf he s^mf up ; leas sent to St. 
C/iar/t-s\s .Si/ninary, Philailflphia, in ISJ^II, to l>e)^in a 
course of study to fit him for the priesthood : nuis 



orJainei/ at .St. Louis in IS^U ; was eonsecratej bishop 
of the Catholic Jiocese of Buffalo Xoi'emher S, I&IS, 
and has lived there sin. ■ 

ttCnrV 1?. SCVmOUr illustrates vividly, on his 

intellci iii.il ■.idc, nli.ii I-. known as the " legal niind." 




.s7A/'//A.\ lt.\iA.\t AT.-J.N 

.\ di.s]X)sition to get to the root of the matter, to 
push aside nonessentials and get down to fundamen- 
tal causes, is a marked characteristic of his mental 
l)rocessi-s. This legal cast of mind, joined to a 
strong, wholesome faith in his fellow men, is |)er- 
haps the distinguishing trait of his iharacter. While 
yet a student in Cornell University, he wa.s attracted 
to the philosophic study of history : and his interest 
in the subject has continueil ever since, and has lieen 
stimidated by extensive foreign travel. 

Mr. Seymour's college career was a brilliant one, 
and on his graduation from Cornell I'niversity he 
recei\ed one of the (ioldwin Smith prizes, then 
deemed the highest rewards in the gift of the univer- 
sity. .After a season of study and travel abroad, he 



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.UEX OF XKIV VORK—U-ESTERX SKCTfOX 



returned to Mount Morris and began the reading of 
law. He studied law in the offices of his uncles, 
McXeil Seymour and Cleorge Hastings — two of the 
most widely known lawyers in the Genesee valley — 
and was admitted to practice in 1874. He then 
went abroad again, and spent over a year in further 




HLXKV 11. SLVMuUk 

study and sight-seeing. In 1876 he returned to this 
country, and opened a law office in Buffalo, where 
he has since practiced. 

It has ever been Mr. Seymour's desire to elevate 
the standard of legal education. He has filled the 
position of lecturer on the law of agency and [lartner- 
ship in the Buffalo Law School ever since the forma- 
tion of that institution, and in that cajjacity has 
sought to impre.ss upon the students the importance 
of the fundamental principles of the law. Statutes 
may change with every session of the legislature, but 
the great legal principles do not vary, and every 
statute must ultimately rest upon them. He urges 
his students to think for themselves, and to attach 



more importance to independent and well-considered 
reasoning than to mere text-book knowledge. 

Mr. Seymour has never held, and has not cared to 
hold, any public elective office. He has been a 
consistent independent Democrat in political opinion, 
and has fdlcd numerous public trusts in a creditable 
manner. He has been for many years 
one of the bar examiners for the judicial 
department in which he lives, and since 
1889 he has been commissioner of jurors 
for the northern district of New York in 
the United States District Court. For 
the latter office he was selected by Judge 
Co.xe, who made the appointment in 
recognition of Mr. Seymour's strong faith 
in the jury system and strong desire to 
see it maintained and strengthened rather 
than abolished. In 1895 Mr. Seymour 
was appointed deputy commissioner of 
jurors for Erie county, under a reform- 
jury act passed in that year. He has been 
a bulwark of strength to the jury system 
against the attacks that have lately been 
made upon it in various quarters. Ad- 
mitting that the system has faults, he 
contends that these may be remedied by 
wise legislation, and that the institution 
as a whole has rightly been regarded as 
one of the pillars of constitutional liberty. 
Mr. Sevmour's extensive travels in the 
old world have given him ample oppor- 
tunity to broaden his general culture, and 
to round out his legal knowledge by a 
study of com])arative constitutions. On 
one of his visits to England he enjoyed, 
through the courtesy of Lord Chief Justice 
Coleridge, the somewhat unique privilege 
of sitting beside that official all one day 
while he held his court in the Law Courts 
in the Strand. Such an honor, and many 
other opportunities to note the workings of the law 
in the mother country, were naturally highly prized 
by the young American lawyer. 

Mr. Seymour is a prominent member of Buffalo 
clubs. He is chairman of the house committee of 
the LIniversity Clul) and of the library committee of 
the Buffalo Club. 

PERSONAL CUROyOLOGY— Henry Hale 
Seymour toas born at Mount Morris, N. Y. , October 
27, 18/fO ; prepared for college at Mmint Morn's 
Academy ; after one year in Dartmouth College entered 
Cornell University, from ivhich he graduated in 1871 
with the degree of Bachelor of Science ; studied la^v at 
Mount Morris, and was admitted to the bar in 1874 : 



AfEX or .\i:W YORK— WESTERS SECT/OX 



sen'ed as jud)^e aJvocaU oj the Jfllt tUrision .\'. U. , 
S. A', y. , IS8OS0 : 7oas appointed aunmissioner 0/ 
jiiron for till- nopthern district of Nnc York state in the 
United States District Court in tSS.'f, and deputy com- 
missioner of jurors for Erie county in ISU't ; has 
practiced law in Buffalo since 1874. 



JL. GUtlfOr^ Smitb '"mdy typilits, in his 
rarccr ami 111 Iiin < li.ii.u lir, the material |tros|)ority 
of our country and the conquest of man over nature 
by which that prosperity has l>een attained antl 
promoted. The intelligent and persistent develop- 
ment of our natural resources hy men esiKxiallv 
adapted for the work by reason of native ability and 
technical training, has characterized our industrial 
history as a whole, and esi)etially the chapters 
relating to coal, iron, and steel. Few men have 
had a larger and more imiiortant |)art in 
this work than l". Ciuilford Smith. 

A thorough schola.stic training, both 
general and technical, ]>aved the way for 
Mr. Smith's life-work. His father took 
great |>ains with his education, obtaining 
special instniction for him in French, 
(lerman, and the sciences, in addition to 
the regular courses in the jniblic and 
l)rivate schools of Philadelphia. When 
he graduated from the Central High 
School there in IIS08, he was the saluta- 
torian of his class, and five years later 
the .same institution gave him the degree 
of Master of .\rts. To the general edu- 
cation obtained in Philadel|)hia, he added 
the si)ecial training of a civil engineer, 
which he obtained at the Rens.selaer 
Polytechnic- Institute at Troy, N. V. 

Mr. Smith began his business life in 
the engineering de|)artment of the Phil- 
adelphia i\: Reading railroad, and linally 
became resident engineer of the < omi«ny 
in the Mahanoy district of the anthracite 
coal fields. He resigned from the road 
in 1H(>.'), and s|x;nt the ne.xt four years as 
general manager of the Philadelphia 
Sugar kefmery. He was then connected, 
as consulting engineer, with railroad and 
mineral projects in various |>arts of the 
country ; and in 1K72 he visited Kuro|K.- 
in connection with railroad enterprises. 
His appointment as secretary of the 
I'nion Iron Comjany of BuflTalo brought him to 
that city in 1S7;{. He has lived there since. 

.After five years in the service of the I'nion Iron 
L'om|)any, Mr. Smith liecanu- western sak-s-agent of 



the Philadelphia iV Reading Coal &• Iron fom|i;iny, 
and afterward organized the fimi of .Mbright & 
Smith, sales-agents for New York anil Canada for 
the siime com|)any. This arrangement with the 
Reading Coin|>any continued until IHlli;, when the 
comi>any Injught out .Albright iV Smith, and .Mr. 
Smith's long connection with the anthracite co<il 
traile cea.sed. For more than thirty years he had 
l>een more or less intimately connected with the 
mining, trans]X)rtation, and sale of anthracite coal 
in the interest of the Reading Comjjany. In INHil 
.Mr. Smith became sales-agent for Carnegie, Phip|is 
& Co., since merged into the Carnegie Steel Com- 
pany, Limited : and he is still connected with that 
comjjany. He is also vi<e president of the New 
York Car Wheel Works, of the St. Thomas (Ont. ) 
Car Wheel Works, of the I'anada Iron Furnace 




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Company ( Radnor, (Jiie. ), and of other industrial 
enterprises. 

Mr. Smith's life-work has thus lieen identified 
with iron, .steel, and coal ; and his e\|>erieni'e of the 



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■ 1 1 -ES TERX SEi r/OX 



needs of these great industrial factors has led him to 
devote much of his energy to the cause of protection 
to American industry. He has never lost faith in 
this cause, and deems the necessity for a protective 
policy as strong to-da)- as it was years ago. 

Most men of force and character have an avoca- 
tion which affords an outlet for their overflowing en- 
ergy ; and Mr. Smith is a case in point. While 
these important e.xtractive industries have been the 
chief concern of his business life, the cau.se of edu- 
cation has received his best attention, and may 
fairly be regarded as his avocation. He has found 
no incongruity, as engineer and man of affairs, 
in cultivating the love of letters that began in 
his early life. His interest in educational mat- 
ters culminated in his election by the state legisla- 
ture in 1890 as a regent of the University of the State 
of New York. This is a life position, and he will 
thus have the opportunity, as long as he lives, of 
a.ssisting in the development of education in this 
state. In 18!)1 Mr. Smith was made chairman of 
the Museum committee, which has charge of the 
geological and other surveys of the state and of the 
state Museum. This position brings him into close 
touch with all matters affecting the mineral resources 
of the state and the exhibition and study of those 
resources at the Museum. 

Ever since his graduation from the Rensselaer 
Polytechnic Institute Mr. Smith has had memlier- 
ship in various engineering .societies, and has always 
taken a lively and an intelligent interest in them. 
In 1894 he traveled extensively in Europe and the 
Orient, and acted as a delegate from the Ameri- 
can Society of Civil Engineers to the International 
Congress of Medicine and Surgery in Rome. Mr. 
Smith belongs to many literary and scientific socie- 
ties, including the Academy of Natural Sciences of 
Philadelphia, the L'nion League of Philadelphia, the 
Franklin Institute, the American Institute of Mining 
Engineers, and the Historical Society of Pennsyl- 
vania. He is president of the Charity Organization 
Society of Buffalo, vice president of the Huffalo Fine 
Arts Academy, and president of the P.uffalo l.ibrarw 
In 1894 he wa.s made an honorary member of the 
Phi Beta Ka])pa, by Hobart Chapter. 

J'KRSONA L CIIR ONOL OGY— Tlumias Guil- 
ford Smith was horn at Piiiladelphia Aii}^iist 27, lS-i!> ; 
graduated from the Central Hif;h School of Fhiladel 
phia with the degree of B. A. in 1858, and from 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1801 : married 
Alary Stewart Ives of Lansingburgh, A^. J '. , July l.'i , 
1804 ; was with the Philadelphia isf Reading rail- 
road as civil engineer, ISOl-tio ; 7vas general mana- 
ger of the Philadelphia Sugar Refinery, 1800-09 ; 



was secretary of the Union Iron Co. of Buffalo, 187-3- 
78 ; was sales-agent of the Philadelphia cs^ Reading 
Coal and Iron Co., 1878-02; has been sales-agent of 
the Carnegie Steel Co., L't'd, since 1889: has been 
regent of the University of the .State of X^eiL' York since 
18!)0. 



£.(3. SpflUl&iUQ — lawyer, financier, states- 
man — is Buffalo's ■•(Jrand Old Man." Born in 
the same year with ( lladstone, he bears the burden of 
fourscore and seven with faculties unimpaired. 
What a long, eventful, and useful career has been his, 
honorable alike to himself, to his state, and to the 
nation 1 Jefferson was President, the second war 
with England was still to be fought. Napoleon's sun 
was at its zenith, seventeen states, with less than 
seven millions of [leople, com|)rised the American 
Union, Buffalo was a mere village — when Mr. 
Spaulding first saw the light. 

Apart from a common-school education, Mr. 
Spaulding may justly be called a self-made man. 
His early days were spent on his father's farm in 
central New York ; but he was ambitious to become 
a lawyer, and on attaining his majority he began the 
study of law in Batavia, N. Y. Admission to the 
bar was not so easy and direct in those days as now. 
First the applicant was admitted to the Court of 
Common Pleas ; later he was eligible to the office of 
attorney of the Supreme Court ; and finally he 
might become counselor of the Supreme Court and 
of the Court of Chancery. After being admitted to 
practice before the Court of Common Pleas, Mr. 
Spaulding came to Buffalo, in 18.>4, an entire stran- 
ger and without so much as a letter of introduction. 
Such a beginning, however, befits a man who relies 
on his own talents and industry. He soon obtained 
a position as law clerk in the office of a leading firm, 
and in due time became an attorney and counselor 
of the Supreme Court, and opened an olifice for him- 
self. His success was rapid and on a large scale. 
.After fourteen years at the bar he retired from the 
legal profession to begin a business career. Mr. 
Spaulding was instrumental in securing the removal 
from .Attica to Buffalo of two banks that have be- 
come widel)' known as reliable money institutions — 
the Commercial Bank and the Farmers' and Mechan- 
ics' Bank. Of the latter institution he was made 
])resident. This banking experience was destined to 
])rove inxaluable in another field of usefulness, to 
which he was called in the same decade l)y the suf- 
frage of his fellow-citizens at a time of national peril. 

Along with his private cares and manifold labors, 
Mr. Spaulding has frecjuently accejjted the duties 
and responsibilities of public office. He has been 



.\n:\ OF AAM- yoRk—iri:sTKR.\ sf.ct/o\ 



tity t Icrk, alderman, and mayor of Hiin'alo, mcmlicr 
of the legislature, state treasurer, and representative 
in congress. As mayor, nearly half a century ago, 
he adopted a system of sewerage for the first time in 
the history of the city ; in the legislature, and as 
treasurer, he was a potent factor in the development 
of the Krie canal ; in the .'ilst congress 
of the I'nited States he stood among the 
stoutest opponents of slavery, and favored 
the admission of California as a free 
state ; in the 3Gth and .'{Tth congresses, 
extending from 1859 to iXti.'J, he was 
again a member of the house of repre- 
sentatives, and served on the most im- 
portant committee of that body — the 
committee on ways and means. The 
nation was in the midst of the great 
Civil War; its resources were taxed to 
the utmost ; there seemed no way for the 
government to maintain its credit and 
meet its obligations. The wisest states- 
men pondered the i)er|)lexing problem in 
vain till Mr. S|aulding conceived of the 
"greenback" as the nation's salvation, 
made necessary and constitutional b\ 
stress of war. Mr. S])aulding introduced 
the bill for the adoption of the greenbac k 
as legal tender, and the national currency 
banking bill, both of which became laws : 
and their author has since been known as 
the " I'ather of the Creenback." In 
later years, Mr. S|)aulding gave to the 
world a full account of this im|>ortant 
legislation in a " History of the Legal 
lender PajK-r Money issued during the 
Creat Rebellion." In so high estimation 
was he held as a financier, that upon the 
resignation of Mr. Chase President Lin- 
coln, it is saitl, would have ap|>ointed 
.\lr. S|)aulding secretary of the trea.sury, 
if New York had not been already represented in 
the cabinet by .Mr. Seward. 

Since his retirement from public life, Mr. S|)aulding 
has devoted his business time to a bank presidency, 
the ])resiilen<y of the Huffalo (Lis Com|>any, and to 
various enterprises of a financial charac ter. He has 
sought at the same time to vary the routine of busi- 
ness by filling in his lei.sure with diversions .suited 
to his age, i hief among whi( h have lieen the build- 
ing and improvement of his beautifid summer home 
at River l.awn on Crand Island. .Vt the Centennial 
Celebration in Philadelphia, he delivered the address 
to the bankers' a.s.so< iation on "One Hundred 
Years of Progress in the Business of Banking." In 



social life he has long Ik-xh a conspicuous figure. He 
is a meml)er of the BnfTalo Club, and though less active 
l)efore the public than in years gone by, he retains an 
adetpiate interest in the current of |XLssing events. 

I'EJiSOXA I. CIIROXOI.OCY— Rlhruigr 
Gerry S/>iiii/i/iii!; reus horn ill Siininifr Hill. X )' . 




E. a. SPAt'LDIXr, 



Ffhniary 2.',, ISOf) ; rfcdffil a (innmon-schthtl ediifa- 
tioii ; 7iuts ailinittfii to Ihr har at /iatii7'iti, X. )'., in 
lSi.'t : was a'f\' derk of Huffalo in IHMl, aUerman in 
IS/f], ami mayor in IS^'i : married Antonftif Rich of 
Altifa, X. v., in IS.i7 : 7i<as mrmhrr oj the stale Ui^- 
islalurc in l.S.iS ; loas re/>resentative in the •Ust, •Wlh, 
and -illh tons^rfssn ( ISiH—'t 1 and ],S.'t,0-*J-i ) ; uun 
treasurer o/ X'rti' Yori state, IS-ii—'t-'t ; has heen presi- 
dent of the /•'armers' and Mediania' Pank since IS.'iO 
••• 

SCtb 5. SpCtlCCr may U- said to n-semble 
line i>l thoM.- uluels in a great, complicated machine, 
which, though inconspicuous to the l>eholder, are 
none the less es.sential to the smooth and |ierfect 



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MEN OF NEW YORK— WESTERN SECTION 



working of the mechanism. As a rule, in every large 
city, the men who are the real factors in many mer- 
cantile and commercial establishments, banks, and 
factories are not the men best known in the com- 
munity, popularly speaking. Mr. Spencer belongs 
to this class of cjuiet, una.ssuming men, whose ability 




SETH S. SPEXCEU 

and character are fully realized and appreciated only 
by those who have social or business relations with 
them. For many years he has successfully managed 
one of the largest manufacturing bakeries in the 
United States, so that to-day the name of the founder 
of the business has become a household word in west- 
ern New York. Since Mr. Spencer has been at the 
head of this business the output from the factory has 
more than doubled in volume — a most creditable 
showing in these days of keen and active comjietition. 
Mr. Spencer is a native of New York state, having 
been born in Genesee county less than sixty years 
ago. His educational opportunities were such as a 
country school afforded, supplemented by a course in 



the Rural Seminary, at East Pembroke, N. Y. Al- 
though ambitious to do so, he was without the means 
to enter college and prepare himself by advanced in- 
struction for the legal profession, which he hoped to 
make his vocation. Taking advantage of spare hours 
in his regular occupation, he read law in the offices 
of F. J. Fithian and William Dorsheimer, 
both noted lawyers in their day, and was 
admitted to the bar in 1865. 

Stress of circumstances, however, pre- 
vented him from practicing law. As early 
as 1857 he had turned his attention to 
telegraphy, and on mastering this craft 
he secured a position as local agent and 
telegraph operator at the railroad station 
in Lancaster, N. Y. His duties in this 
connection brought him into contact with 
the railway mail service, then in its 
infancy, but destined to be rapidly de- 
veloped and widely extended in the 
course of the following decade. In 1861 
Mr. Spencer obtained an appointment as 
a railway mail clerk, and for two years 
he "ran"' between Elmira and Buffalo. 
Promotion then brought him the route 
from Buffalo to New York city, one of 
the most important in the service, which 
he retained for ten years, or until his 
resignation in 1873. Whatever may be 
said of some positions under the govern- 
ment, that of the railway mail clerk is by 
no means a sinecure. The work is ex- 
hausting in an extreme degree, and is 
often rendered more difficult by the poor 
facilities provided by railroads. Only a 
man of vigorous constitution, quick eye, 
and alert mind is fitted for the ])Osition ; 
and the fact that Mr. Spencer endured 
the labor and strain for twelve years 
is proof of his sound constitution and 
capacity for hard work. After retiring from the 
railway mail service, he became a.ssociated in busi- 
ness with Robert Ovens, manufacturing baker, to 
whose daughter he had been married in 1870, and 
who was at that time engaged in building up in Buf- 
falo the industry that now bears his name. In 1883 
Mr. Silencer a.ssumed the entire management of the 
business, which he has since conducted on an in- 
creasingly large scale and with corresponding suc- 
cess, displaying an energy and method that have 
marked him as one of Buffalo's most enter])rising and 
farsighted men of affairs. Free from ostentation, and 
devoted to the res[jonsibilities he undertakes, Mr. 
Sjjencer enjoys the respect and ( onfidence of the 



.\r/:x or x/:ir voRK—irESTERN sect/ox 



business world, and is held in hiyh esteem l)y his 
neighbors and fellow-citizens. In politics he is a Re- 
publican, but he has generally exercised his prerojja- 
tive to vote for the l)est man irres|K.'< tive of [wrty lines, 
when no great principles were at stake. .Mr. Sjiencer 
attends the 1-afayette Street Presbyterian Church, and 
is one of the trustees thereof; he is also a meml>er of 
the Merchants' Kxchange and of the Buffalo flub. 

PJlJiSOX.lL CZ/JiOXOLOGV—SethS. S/<,n- 
cer was horn in the town of Batavia, N. Y. , August 
i?.J, 18-i8 : 7oas educated in country schools and at 
Rural Seminary, East Pemhroke, N. Y. ; was a rail- 
way mail clerk, lSlil-7S ; 7i'as admitted to the har in 
1SU'>, hut nn-er practiced law ; married Mrs. Agnes 
J. Derrick of Buffalo December 22, 1870 ; has been 
manager of the R. Ot'ens Branch U. S. Baking Co. , 
Buffalo, since 18SS. 



/Katbias Strauss shows by hi> 

career what a man starting without means 
or influence can achieve through hard 
work, brains, and honest dealing. Horn 
nearly sixty years ago in Remich, grand 
duchy of Luxemburg, Clemiany, he se- 
cured a limited education ; and at the age 
of fourteen, allured by glowing re|)orts 
from -America, persuaded his [larents to 
leave their fatherland and seek a new 
home and fortune across the sea. No 
writer can adequately describe the [athos, 
the hope and fear, the complete change 
that accom|)anics the sundering of old 
friendships, the parting with familiar 
places and objects, and the launching 
out into an untried world of a family 
from one of the old countries. It is an 
experience never to be forgotten. Mr. 
Strauss recalls it the more vividly because 
the " promised lantl " so eagerly sought 
proved a keen <lisappointment in many 
respects. Wages were low and work was 
scarce ; and the pros|K;ct of a strange 
land, a stranger tongue, no friends, and 
no business wa.s exceedingly disheartening 
to the newcomers. 

Young Strauss realized that his |)arents, 
with a large family, had come to this 
country chiefly on his account, and he 
resolved to take upon his shoulders all 
the burden they could Ixar. For over a 
hundred years in the old country, his father and 
grandfather had carried on in their native town the 
business of wool and sheep-leather manufacturing. So 
naturally he applied for work with his father in the 



same business here, and iKJth obtained employment in 
the shee|)skin tannery of lircithaupt & Schoellkopf of 
ISuffalo — the father at "■> cents, and Mathixs at '.V! y< 
cents a day. IJilterly regretting that he had left his 
native < ountry, the young man determined neverthe- 
less to nuike the most of his op|>ortunities and to do 
his full duty to his jiarcnts, whom his youthful cn- 
thusia.sm had brought to the I'nited Slates. lie was 
glad of the chance to work and to learn a trade ; and 
so diligently and intelligently did he apply him.self 
to his duties that in five years he was promoted to l>e 
foreman of the de|>artment for dyeing and finishing 
fancy -colored sheep leather, and w.is regarded a.s the 
l>est man in that line in Buffalo. 

To every indastrious and faithful young man an op- 
jKirtunity such as he wishi-s finally comes. When Mr. 




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Strauss was twenty-four years old, the firm for whii h 
he worked was dis.solved, and the Unnnery l>e 
came vacant. On a capital of two hundred dollars, 
which he had slowly accumulated, he rented the old 



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establishment, and started in business for himself. 
He there laid the foundation for the immense business 
which came to him with the passing years, and which 
to-day reiiuires a large force of men and huge build- 
ings for its adequate o])eration. Mr. Strauss at- 
tributes much of his success, especially at the begin- 
ning of his career, to the influence of his wife, who 
was Miss Elizabeth Brosart, daughter of Charles Bro- 
sart. As an illustration of Mr. Strau.ss's continued 
activity, pluck, and energy, the fact may be cited 
that when his establishment was burned to the ground 
in the spring of 18y.'i, he .set to work at once to re- 
build, kept all his workmen employed at full wages, 
and in six months had the great plant again under 
roof and in complete operation. Two of Mr. 
Strauss's sons are emi)loyed in the business : John 
A. is head bookkeeper, and Charles is foreman and 
buyer. 

Xot only has Mr. Strauss impressed himself upon 
the community as a manufacturer and employer, but 
he has also served the people of Buffalo in a political 
capacity, as an active, progressive citizen. He has 
twice been elected a councilman, and in j^erforming 
the duties of that office he has been faithful to his 
own ideals, and has done at all times what he be- 
lieved would meet the approval of the people and the 
taxpayers of the city, in common with whom he has 
large and varied property interests affected by i)ubli( 
action. In politics he is an ardent Democrat. 

Mr. Strauss has been active in church, social, and 
philanthropic work for many years. .\ member of 
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, one of the 
founders of a church, an orphan asylum, and a work- 
ing boys' home, he has shown his devotion to re- 
ligious and charitable institutions and their wants. 
He is a member of the Old Cerman Society of Buf- 
falo, and an honorary member of the Knights of St. 
John, thus maintaining in addition to business rela- 
tions a broad jjarticipation in the moral and social 
life of the community, and proving himself in every 
way a worthy citizen of the country of his adoption. 

PERSONA L ClfR ONOL O G Y—Mat/iiax 
Strauss 7oas born at Rciiiich, Germany, April I'l, 
1836 ; married Elizabeth Brosart of Buffalo Noi'em- 
ber 15, 1859 ; was e lee ted eouncilman of the city of 
Buffalo for the year 1892, and ajs^ain for the years 
1893—95 ; 7t.>ent to Buffalo in 1850, and has been en- 
gaged there since in the manufaeture of leather and 

7V00l. 



Cbai'lC5 B. Sweet li;>^ I'J'\U been one of the 
recognized, (luiet-working forces in the commercial, 
social, and political life of Buffalo. A man may be no 
less a factor in a community because he is naturally 



unobtrusive, devoted to business affairs, and opposed 
to notoriety of every .sort. Mr. Sweet is a type 
of a class of men happily to be found in all our 
large cities, who constitute the strong, conservative 
element, whose influence and support are always 
.sought whenever any great enterprise or important 
measure is under consideration or is being projected. 

.Among the things that determine success in life 
are parentage, place of birth, education, and o|)por- 
tunity, for none of which are we primarily responsi- 
ble. What we make of the "raw material" of life, 
as it may be called, is really the sum total that the 
individual can claim as his own. .\pplying this 
standard impartially, it is possible to estimate the 
credit due to any given person. Mr. Sweet was 
fortunate in being born of old New England stock, 
amid the picturesque scenery of Berkshire count\-, 
Ma.ss. ^^'hat education he was al)le to secure was 
limited to the three " R's," and had to be obtained 
in the winter months when there was no work on 
the farm. But the training of the home supplied a 
discipline and a standard of living that schools, and 
colleges even, do not undertake to furnish. His life 
was that of the farmer's son — an apprenticeship 
that has proved of invaluable benefit in fitting young 
men for the practical work of the world. 

In 1862, when twenty-six years of age, Mr. Sweet 
made Buffalo his home, and engaged in the transpor- 
tation business on Central wharf. Here, undoubt- 
edly, he gained many of those traits of accu- 
rate dealing, and that sound business judgment, 
which have characterized his career in the more dif- 
fiodt and responsible field upon which he entered in 
IcSSl, when he became president of the 'Ihird 
National Bank of Buflalo — a position he continues 
to occu])y. 

\ busy life has left him little leisure for man\' 
diversions so agreeable to those who have time for 
them. Mr. Sweet has, however, realized that he 
had duties as a citizen as well as a business man, and 
every public movement commending itself to his 
judgment has received his active sujjport. .\ Demo 
crat in politics, he has influenced his party in the 
right direction on all occasions : and his personal 
interest in local affairs, together with his readiness to 
contribute of his time and means to his party's suc- 
cess, has given him a |)Ower in the community that he 
has always employed for its good. Though frequently 
urged b\ his friends to be a candidate for various 
offices, he has uniformly declined, and has never 
accejjted a distinctly |jolitical office. 

One ])ublic office, however, he did con.sent to fill 
in 18!)2, when he was appointed by the governor of 
New York one of the nonpartisan board of Ceneral 



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Managers having charge of the manifold representa- 
tion of the Kmpire State at the World's I'air in 
Chicago in 1H!);{. i'he complete and successful 
exhibit of New York at that su|)erl> exposition is a 
matter of history, and the voliinic and variety of the 
«ork |x'rformed by the (ieneral Managers is bot 
illustrated by their comjirehensive reixjrt 
to the state legislature, comprising a de- 
tailed account of the labors of the board. 
Mr. -Sweet wa.s presiilent of the X'lui 
falo lioaril of Trade when that institution 
was still on Central wharf. He was presi- 
dent of the Young Men's Association 
before it was (hanged to the " Buffalo 
Library." He .served many years as one 
of the tru.stees of the City and County 
Hall, having been ap|>ointed to that posi- 
tion by the Sujx-rior Court. He .served 
many years, also, as trustee of the State 
Normal School at Buffalo. He was one of 
the organizers of the Citizens' Cas Com- 
[lany, and is now vice jjresident of the 
same. He was one of the organizers of 
the Delaware .\\enuc Methodist Church, 
and is presiilent of the boaril of trustees 
of that institution. He has been con- 
nected with many as.sociations of a re 
bgions and philantliroi)ic character. 

F/:M.so.y.i/. cnRO.xoL ogy— 

Charks Auj^iistine Sioeet nuts horn at 
lliDKock, Mass., fehniaiy Ki, ISSO ; was 
iiliicated in amntry schools : loent to Buf- 
falo am/ t-Hi^ai^t-d in the transportation hiisi 
ness in IHHJ : 7i'as a meinhfr oj the hoar,l 
of General Managers for Neio York state 
at the \\'orl,r s l-'air, 1S!U ; has heen presi- 
ilent of the Third Xational Hank of Buf- 
falo since 1881. 



where his duties included, l>esides clerical work, 
making fires, .sweeping the store, waiting on custom- 
ers, and keeping track of a miscellaneous stock of 
drugs, hardware, dry goods, groceries, and notions. 
For all this he received the princely sum of eight 
dollars a month. 




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3amC5 milllHlbJlSt nm be ju.stly regarded as 
a ty|)ical .Xmeruan railroader, though his tliversified 
ex])erien( e in connection with the transportation 
industry has rarely been jxiralleled in this or any 
other country. He began at the bottom of the lad- 
der, and ended at the top ; and the story of his life 
is at once interesting, instructive, and insjiiring. 

Mr. Tillinghast inherited his me( hanical ability 
from his father, and as a schoolboy s|K'nt much of his 
leisure time in his father's machine shop, where he 
became practically conversant with the u.se of 
tools and the methods and proce.s.ses of mechanical 
work. .\t the age of fifteen he entered a country 
store in Brownsville, N. Y., as a clerk. A year later 
he accepted a similar position at Dexter. N. Y.. 



In |H4:! .Mr. Tillingha.st emlarked in the lake 
trade, making his first venture as su|)er(argo of a 
sailing vessel thatiarried pa.s.sengers and freight from 
Sackett's Harbor to Chicago. The |>as.sengers sup- 
]jlied their own provisions, and slept in the hold. 
( )n the return trip he brought a cargo of wheat, which 
was the seconil that had ever l>een ship|>ed fronj Chi- 
cago to Buffalo. .Mr. Tillinghast soon abandoned 
this lake traffic, and engaged in business with his 
father for several years; but in IM.ll he iK'gan 
the railroad career in which he was to attain such 
slice ess. Ik-ginning as extra fireman on a gnivel 
train, he be< ame assistant sii|ierintentlent of the Rome 
\- W atertown railroad the following year : and since 
that time he has held hi>;h official |K)sitions on 



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almost every important railroad in this jjart of the 
country. Few men have had a more varied experi- 
ence. His energy and good judgment won for him 
positions of trust, and these he always filled with faith- 
fulness and zeal. He entered the service of the New 
York Central road in 18(!5, at the recjuest of its |)resi- 




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dent. Dean Richmond, and was appointed superin- 
tendent of the western division. He soon made the 
acquaintance of Commodore Vanderbilt, who had re- 
cently actjuired a large interest in the road, and was 
making his first trip of insjiection o\er it. The great 
railway king at once recognized Mr. I'illinghast's 
unusual ability, and the friendship that then began 
grew with advancing years, and ended only with the 
death of Mr. Vanderbilt. When Commodore Van 
derbilt acquired a controlling interest in the " Cen- 
tral," he made Mr. iiliinghast general superintend- 
ent, with head<iuarters at .Albany ; and this position 
he held until 18«1, when he was apjiointed by Will- 
iam H. Vanderbilt a.ssistant to the |)residenl. iU 



that time the tonnage of the road had increased 
tenfold from the figures of 1865, when Mr. Tilling- 
hast first became connected with the road. 

In 1878 and 1879, in addition to his other duties, 
Mr. Tillinghast filled the double position of president 
and general manager of the Canada Southern railway ; 
and it was owing chiefly to his exertions 
that the Dominion parliament passed laws 
that saved the road from bankruptcy, and 
enabled it to be reorganized without lo.ss to 
the stockholders. In 1 .S88 Mr. Tillinghast 
was vice president of the Niagara River 
Bridge Company, and superintended the 
erection of the cantilever bridge built b\ 
that company and oi)ened for traffic 
during that year. 

All the important ofiices held by Mr. 
I'illinghast have come to him unsolicited. 
It is worthy of notice, moreover, that he 
has never demanded a fixed sum for any 
services rendered, but has relied upon the 
zeal with which he served his employers 
to secure for him adetpiate compensation. 
His good judgment and reliability, in all 
emergencies and under all circumstances, 
have earned for him the respect and es- 
teem of railroad officials far and near, and 
of the general publitr as well. He is a man 
of few words, e.xceedingly (]uiet and un- 
demonstrative in manner ; but a deep 
thinker, and a man of action and determi- 
nation. He is affable and kindly in his in- 
tercourse with all, and is noted for his gen- 
erous hospitality and other social virtues. 
PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G V— 
James Tillinghast was Iwni at Coopers- 
town, AL V. , A/ay 8, 1822 : was e(iucate<t 
in tiir f'lililic schools ; engaged in hisincss, 
18J7—Jf2, and in lake traffic, 18J^3-^G ami 
1862-t>4 ; 7aas assistant superintendent of 
the Rome iS--" IVaterto'ivn railroad, 18-'>2—')6, superin- 
tendent of motive poiver of the Northern Railway of 
Canada, 1856-62, division and general superintendent 
of the Central- Hudson railroad, 1865-81, and assistant 
to the president of that road in 1881 ; 7C'as president of 
the Wagner Sleeping Car Co. , 188^-85 ; married 
Mary Williams of Limerick, N. Y., October 2, ISJ^-i, 
and Mrs. Susan Williams of Buffalo July 25, 1882. 



IRObCrt (I. XlitUB has for many years of his life 
served his fellow-men. For nearly twenty years he 
has held various im])ortant positions of trust, and in 
each one he has discharged the duties imposed upon 
him so faithfiilh- that his record is without a blemish. 



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Horn in a little Kric-county village, Judge Titns 
l^assed the early years of his life amid surroundings 
that called for great sacrifices and much labor, lie 
worked on a farm and attended district schools by 
turn. .\t last the opportunity came for a < curse in 
()l)erlin College at Oberlin, Ohio, and this chance 
to broaden out and to satisfy some of the ambitions 
that had long possessed the young man, was eagerly 
seized. He did not, however, graduate from this 
institution, but returned to HulTalo, and began the 
study of law. Thus was gratified an earnest desire. 
The young man applied him.self to the study of the 
principles of law with so much zeal and |)ersisten<e that 
in 1X(!.") he was admitted to the bar with high 
honors. 

The next thirteen years of his life were spent m 
the practice of his profession, either alone or with 
others. Huring this time judge Titus had 
drifted into politic s, and soon became one 
of the favorite camjaign orators of the 
Democratic jwirty, whose jilatfonns and 
prini iples he warmly enilorsed. His [x-r 
sonal |x>pularity and his eminent |)arty 
services appropriately led to a nomina- 
tion for district attorney of Erie county, 
and he was triumphantly elected to that 
office in the fall of 1K77. The duties of 
this office were filled during the next three 
years with honor to him.self, and to the 
entire satisfaction of the [x'ople. When 
his term expired he resumetl |)rivate prac- 
tice. His i>arty, however, soon called 
upon him to stand as the leader of its 
county ticket, and in the fall of 1M81 he 
was elected state senator from the 81st 
district, which then included the whole 
of Krie county. He served with so much 
distinction that he was re-elected in the 
fall of 1«K:?, thus representing Krie county 
in the highest legislative body of the state 
for four years. During that time he was 
a member of the judiciary and other im 
portant committees, on which he rendered 
valuable service. He was a faithful friend 
of the canals during his career in the 
legislature, and stood by the Krie c anal, 
which h.xs clone so much in the develoj)- 
ment of the state, again.st all the attacks 
made by its enemies. 

.\ vacancy about to occur on the l>ench 
of the Su|)erior Court of Buffalo gave Mr. Titus's party 
friends another opjwrtunity to show their regard for 
him, and he was nominated in the fall of IXH.j for 
the honorable ])osition thus available. His election 



followeil, and since that time Jiulge Titus has pre- 
sided with im|)artiality and dignity at many im|)ort- 
ant trials in Buffalo. In the course of time he 
l)ecame chief judge of the court, and held that |>osi- 
tion when the Su|>i-rior I'ourt was abolished, and its 
judges took seats on the biix h of the Supreme ('ourt 
January 1. 1896. 

Judge 'Titus ha.s for many \cars i>cen a proiniiRiit 
and honored member of the Masonic fraternity, and 
has been a leader in its many l>enefi<ent works. .\l 
the meeting of the Supreme C'ouncil of Sovereign 
Crand InsiKictors (lencral, '.i'^A and last degree, .\n- 
cient .\ccepted Scottish Rite, held in Buffalo in 
SeptemlK-r, IH!!."), he was m.ide an honorary meml>er 
of that body. He is a <lirector of the .Masonic Life 
.\.ssociation of Western New York, and is trea.surer 
of the .Acacia Club, the largest purely social club of 




KO/llih'T c. T/TIS 

M.Lsons in this country. 'This iliib has Iteautiftil 
rooms in the Ma.sonic 'Temple at Buffalo. 

PERSOXAL CHROXOLOGY— Rohnt Cyrus 
TihK was horn nl lufrn, X. >'., Odobn J.',, ikut ; 



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attended Obcrlin College ; married Aivilla R. Clark 
of Go7oanda, N. Y. , August 22, 1867 ; was admitted 
to the bar at Buffalo in ISOi) : 7C>as district attorney of 
Erie county, 1818-80 ; loas state senator for Erie 
county, 1882-8o : was elected fudge of the Superior 
Court of Buffalo in the fall of 1885 : was chief Judge 




AUGUSTIS Fff.tXK-rJX TRIPI' 

of that court at the time of its absorption into the Su- 
preme Court January 1, 18W, lohcn he became a 
member of the bench of the Supreme Court. 



aiUJUStUS jfranftlln Uripp is the head of 
one of the most important industrial establishments 
of Buffalo. In business circles he is known as a man 
of great worth of character, and of a wonderful grasp 
of details that makes him a perfect master of any- 
thing to which he gives his attention. The firm of 
Sidney Shepard & Co., of which he is the senior 
member, is known far and wide as a large producer 
of tinware and house-furnishings, and to Mr. Irijip 
is due in no small measure the success that the firm 



has made in the business world. This concern has a 
mammoth factory in Buffalo, to which Mr. Tripp has 
devoted himself for nearly forty years ; and he has 
reduced its methods to a system that is almost per- 
fection. The firm has also a large warehouse and 
distributing center in Buffalo ; and a subsidiary firm, 
styled C. Sidney Shepard & Co., has 
headquarters in Chicago. Mr. Tripp is 
one of the men who do things without 
making any noise about it. Careful, 
prudent, and sagacious in a marked de- 
gree, he has succeeded where others 
might have failed. 

Born the son of a fanner, in a little 
Vermont town, young Tripp spent his 
early years helping his people wring the 
necessities of life from the stony and 
ungenerous soil of the Green Mountain 
State. His ambition to attain something 
better than appeared in the East led him 
to leave home for what was then the Far 
West, and in 1844 he bade good-by to 
the friends of his boyhood, and started 
out to make his fortune. He went to 
Buffalo by the canal-packet line, and after 
a hasty look o\er the new city, which was 
in later years to be the scene of his busi- 
ness triumphs, he boarded a lake steamer 
for Fairport, Ohio. 'Thence he went to 
Fainesville, in the same state, and there 
obtained a job cleaning up the machinery 
of an old oil mill. This job completed, 
he went to Cleveland, where he secured 
employment in the office of the Cuyahoga 
Steam Furnace Co. He remained here 
until 1847, when he returned to Buffalo to 
take a position with the firm of John D. 
Shepard & Co., owners of steam-engine 
works and a large foundry. 'Two years 
later, when this firm passed out of e.xist- 
ence, Mr. Tripp returned to Ohio, and established 
himself in business at I'ainesville under the firm name 
of Steele Bros. & Tripp, and at the same time in 
Buffalo with his brothers-in-law under the firm name 
of A. F. Tripp & Co. 'This partnership was dissolved 
in 1852, and Mr. Tripp then entered the service 
of Sidney Shepard & Co. as clerk and bookkeeper. 
Here he displayed .so much energy and intelligence 
in the discharge of his duties, and wa.s so (juick to 
grasp the details of the business and so efficient gen- 
erally, that after five years he became a partner in the 
concern, and has been actively interested ever since. 
Outside of his business, Mr. 'Tri];p is ])reemi- 
nentlv a home man. This does not mean that he is 



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Hi, 



not interested in ail that jiertains to the welfare of 
his city and of his fellow-inen. His sym])athy for 
the unfortunate has often found expression in his 
sup|x>rt of many Buffalo charities that have learned 
to look upon him as a friend in need, Bui Mr. 
rri|»p never lets the right hand know what the left is 
doing. Unostentatiously he pursues his way through 
the worhl. leaving on all sides evidences of the sterl- 
ing worth of his character. 

/" A'iV.S 0.\\4L ClIR OXOLOGV— Augustus 
I-'ranklin Tripp icuts horn <// Nno Haven, I'/., Sip- 
tfmherSD, 18^2 : went West in IH^O — first to Paines- 
ville, O., iin,i thence to C/n'eitin</ : went to Buffalo in 
ISJfl , ami entered the employ of John D. Shepanl <s-' 
Co. ; engageil in husiness ivith his hrothers-in-law in 
Ohio, 18-'t0-')2 ; married Mary M. Steele of Paines- 
ville, O., August 17, 1S47, ami Caroline M. /inm'n 
of Chelsea, Mass. , January 22, ISiJS : 
entered the service of Sidney Shepard <>■ 
Co. of Buffalo in 1S.'>2, and has been a 
niemher of the firm si nee IS.'il . 



GCOrilC 'Clrltan, 3rM is recognized 
as one ul the potent Uk tors in the com- 
mercial and [jolitical life of Buffalo. He 
is a splendid example of the modern busi- 
ness man. l-lnterprise, industry, sound 
judgment, anil integrity have been the 
foimdation stones of his success. Me has 
not confined himself to one thing, luit 
has shown his ability and cafwcity in 
.several fields. Happily, the rise and 
develo|)ment of corporations have enabled 
a vigorous and resourceful man to en- 
gage in many enter|)rises at the same 
time. .\ large jart of every business 
and profession is made up of routine 
and relatively unimportant details, which 
reipiire neither skill nor foresight, and 
which can s;ifely be left to subordinates : 
while the talents of the manager or 
owner, thus relieved from petty annoy- 
ances and cares, may lie employeil far 
more effectively with weightier matters. 
The man who knows how to make this 
division of work economizes his time, 
and is enal>led to take [wrt in the con- 
duct of banks and other organizations in 
addition to his jKirticular business. 

Mr. I'rban is the son of a Buffalo 
pioneer in the flour and milling business, and was 
born in IX.IO in a house just op|X)site the L'rban 
mill. He was educated in the public whools of 
Buffalo, and at the age of eighteen entered his father's 



establishment. Two years later he was made a |>artner 
in the firm. His father retired from business in 1885, 
and the finn of Trlan & Co. now consists of (leorge 
I rl>an, Jr., K. C. S. .Miller, and W. C". Irian, a 
brother of the senior |iartner. Kor fifty years the 
I'rlian family have Ijeen in the flour business, and have 
made their excellent brands of Hour hou.sehold names. 
In financial c irt les and among the promoters of 
enterprises on a large Male, .Mr. I'rban is well known 
from his connection with lianking institutions and 
electrical com|janies. He is president of the Buffalo 
Loan, Trust & Safe l)e|)Osit Co., and a director in 
the .Merchants' Bank and the Bank of Buffalo. He 
has devoted m\ich attention to electric lighting and 
to electricity as a |iower in manufacturing anti 
trans|>ortation, and he is connected with several com- 
jianies < oncerned in electrical development. He is 




r.FO/fr.r I h'li i\ /A' 

vice president of the Buffalo (lencral KIcctric Co. 
anti a director of the Buffalo Railway Co., of the 
|)e|)cw Improvement C"o., and of the Buffalo, Bellc- 
vue & Ijinc.nstcr K.iilwav Co. 



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Mr. L'rban's business occupations have not made 
him neglectful of his political obligations, and in 
taking an active part in local politics he has ren- 
dered his native city an important service. While 
he never would accept public office, Mr. Urban was 
chairman of the Erie county Rejiublican general 



iS^' Co.. millers, in 1810; married Ada E. ll'iiis/'car 
of Buffalo in October, 1875 ; was chairman of the 
Rifuiilican county committee, 1892-95. 




CEORGK nWD.^WORril 

committee during the eventful years 1892-!).") ; and 
to his skillful organization, his executive ability, and 
courageous demand for high standards of I'ltness in 
public officials is due in large measure the triumph 
of the people at the polls, and the complete rout of 
the spoilsmen and demagogues who had so long 
ruled the Queen City. Increasing business cares 
have since cau.sed Mr. I'rban to retire from active 
politics, but he can always l)e counted on by the 
friends of honest municijial government, and his in- 
fluence for good on Republican ]iolitics is felt 
throughout the state. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Georo:c Urban, 
Jr., was born at Buffalo July hi, 1850: was edu- 
calid in the public schools : cnlcrcd the firm of I 'rbaii 



(3e0roe XlXIla&3\V0rtb enjoys an enviable 
genealogical distinction. He is a descendant of 
William Wadsworth, who came from 
England in the ship " Lion," and landed 
in Boston September 18, l(j3'2. William 
Wadsworth was one of Parson Hooker's 
company that traveled through the wilder- 
ness and settled Hartford, Conn., in 163li. 
Joseph \\'adsworth, of "Charter-Oak" 
fame, was a .son of William \\'adsworth, 
though not in direct line with the suli- 
ject of our sketch. Everyone remembers 
from his school davs the striking incident 
of the imperiled charter in the dark days 
of the Connecticut colony — how Sir 
Edmund Andros, acting under orders of 
the King, attempted to take away the 
liberal ( barter of the colony, and how a 
Wadsworth e.xtinguished the lights, seized 
the precious document, and hid it in the 
hollow of an oak. < )ne of Mr. Wads- 
worth's great-grandfathers was a colonel 
of the Connecticut troops during the Rev- 
olution, and an intimate friend of Wash- 
ington and of Lafayette. To such early 
cham])ions of freedom, and to others like 
them, Mr. Wadsworth nia\ trace his 
lineage. 

Born ill the dclightt'ul old town of 
Litchfield, Conn., he received his early 
education in one of the "little red 
schoolhouses " so famous in their day. 
After pursuing more advanced studies in 
neighboring academies, he took up the 
occupation of teaching, which has so 
often been used b\ amliitious young men as a step- 
])ing-stone to one of the jirofessions. .\t the .same 
time he began to stud}' law, and when his means at 
length permitted, he undertook a course of study in a 
law office in Litchfield. In the earlier part of the 
century Litchfield had a wide reputation as a legal 
center, and attracted to its famous law school stu- 
dents from every state. It was here that John C. 
Calhoun, John M. Clayton, and man)' other eminent 
men studied law, and that Judge Reeve and Judge 
(Jould, the author of the noted work on Pleading, 
delivered their celebrated lectures for years. 

On the comiiletion of his law studies Mr. Wads- 
worth was admitted to the bar of Connecticut ; and 
in the same \ear, having removed to New York city, 



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he was admitted to the l)ar of the Kmpire State. The 
following year, 1H.')-J, he went to Hiiffalo, and alter 
a preparatory experience as a law clerk, ojiened an 
office for himself. There for more than forty years 
he has been engaged in the active ])racticc of an ar- 
duous profession. 

.Mr. Wadsworth has acted upon the Inflief that he 
who would i)e a thorough all-round lawyer can find 
little time for diversions or pursuits not connected 
with the main object of his vocation ; and that, 
while one's life may l>e thereby lonfmeil, one is 
nevertheless a real factor in the development of the 
community. Conseipiently he has avoided extensive 
IxirticiiKition in public affairs : but at times he has 
contributed services of permanent value to the pub- 
lic, when the oltii e concerned was in the line of his 
profession. He was at one time city attorney, was 
twice nominated judge of the Su|K.Tior 
Court of Buffalo, and was a member of the 
commission <onsisting otherwise of John 
(1. .\lilburn, Jo.seph Churchyard, and 
Spencer Clinton, to revi.sc the charter of 
the city of HufTalo — a work that redected 
< redit upon both the revi.sers and the lity. 

.\ great jiart of Mr. Wadsworth's legal 
practice has concerned the intricate do- 
main of real jjroperty and the settlement of 
estates — de])artmentsof the law in which 
he stands high as a man of sound business 
judgment. During his long career at 
the bar he has been professionally asso 
ciated in [jartnershi]) relations with some 
of the best known members of the local 
bar — with such men as Benjamin H. 
Williams, l.oran I,. Lewis, Truman C 
White, and Nel.son K. Hopkins. 

.Mr. NN'adsworth is thoroughly .American 
in his habits and tastes, and preserves the 
characteri.slics of his New England train- 
ing. He is a lover of old books, fond 
of gaining instruc lion by travel, solid 
and resolute in his political convictions. 
He is a member of the First Presbyterian 
Church, the Republican league, and 
the Sons of the .American Revolution, 
and a Past Master of the .Ancient Lmd 
mark Ma.sonic Lodge, besides holding 
membership in several social clubs, such 
as the Buffalo and the Kllicott. His 
life has been well-roinided, honorable 
to himself, and useful to the c itv in which he lives. 

/'K/iSOX.U. CllKOyOLOGy—Geotxe ll.i./s- 
worth was Iwrn at LitchfieU, Conn., .\far(li ID, ISSO; 
a/tcniffi/ common si-liooh anil atademifi at l.iti-lifielii 



am/ Danhury ( Conn. ) ; was at/inittf,f to Ihf hat of 
Connecticut ami of Nno York in ISiil : marrieJ Emily 
O. Marshall of Utica, N. )'., in June, IS'tS : was 
cit}' attorney of Buffalo, ISiiO-tIt . //./. /practiced law 
in Buffalo since ISHJ. 



1RiCbar^ a. lUaite is a distinguished memlKfr 
ol a prules>ic)ii liial mules, in a greater degree than 
any other jierhaps, the graces of art and the demands 
ol utility. .Arc hitec tiire is among the very olik-st, il 
it be not indeed the most anc ient, of the professions, 
since the first builders, in a nide way to Ix: sure, jirac- 
ticed a kind of an hitecture. .As for historic times, 
it is known that the earliest renuiins of any [nople 
evidence a more develo|)ed state in arc hitec ture than 
in any other de|>artment of human knowledge. 
Temples and tombs proclaim the fact that man in 




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remote ages devoted his time and thought to material 
creations evolve«l from the workings of imagination 
and from the longing to cmlnxly in physical forms 
the ide.is of the mind. 



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Mr. W'aite's special strength lits in the I'act that 
he combines a theoretic with a practical knowledge 
of building. Previously to entering upon his chosen 
career he devoted considerable time to mechanical 
engineering, thus laying a broad foundation for the 
more artistic work he was to take up. He had 
such masters as P>icsson, of "Monitor" fame, and 
John Kellum, .New York's most jjroniinent arthitect 
in the sixties. 

Mr. VVaite is an Englishman by birth, having been 
born in what is now a part of London ; but he 
came to the Lhiited States when a lad, and was edu- 
cated in the public schools here. He has pursued 
his profession in Buffalo since 1871, and has estab- 
lished a wide reputation among his professional 
brethren, who are best qualified to appreciate the 
\alue and merit of his work. His first building of 
any magnitude was the German Insurance Co. 
edifice, at the corner of Main and Lafayette streets, 
Buffalo. Other structures of importance in the same 
cit}' designed by him are the Women's L'nion, 
Music Hall, the (irosvenor Library, Pierce's Palace- 
Hotel (since destroyed by fire), and the (leneral 
Myers mausoleum at Forest Lawn. 

To get an ade(|uate idea of the scope and extent 
of Mr. \\'aite's achievements as an architect, one 
must study the work that he has done away from his 
home and even from his adoi)ted country. Canada, 
and especially the city of 'roroiito, has his master- 
])ieces, which rank among the most important and 
successful exam])les of the highest cla.ss of modern 
architecture. For six years, commencing in 18X(), 
Mr. Waite was engaged in the ])lanning and the con- 
struction of the Ontario Parliament buildings at 
Toronto. This wa.s a stupendous undertaking, and 
the brilliantly successful execution of the work 
i|ui<kly and justly gave Mr. Wnitc a high ])osition 
in the ranks of his jjrofession. This magnificent 
structure, known in its entirety as the Parliament 
and De[jartmental Buildings, includes within its walls 
over 76, 01)0 scjuare feet, and shows in all its archi- 
tectural details vigorous, masterful, and highly artis- 
tic treatment. Not the least noteworthy feature of 
the work is the fact that the imdertaking was entirely 
completed promptly, and within the original esti- 
mates. The Toronto GMx- truly remarks that "the 
comjjletion of such a building without extras or dis- 
putes is |)robably a uni(|ueand unprecedented occur- 
rence : and no other instance is known of a public 
edifice of such magnitude erected at so small a 
co.st." 

While the Parliament building must be regarded 
as Mr. \\'aite's clirf-d' (vuvir, for the present at least, 
the account of his professional achievements would 



be (juite incomplete, if the record were to stop here. 
He is said to be the first American architect em- 
ployed by Her Majesty's government, and probably 
no other American architect has received so many 
important commissions from Her Majesty's subjects. 
In the construction of buildings for banks and insur- 
ance companies Mr. Waite has especially distin- 
guished himself. He designed buildings for the 
Western Assurance Co. at Toronto, the Canada Life 
Assurance Co. at Hamilton, Toronto, and Montreal, 
the Standard Life A.ssurance Co. at Montreal, and 
the head ofifices of the same company at Glasgow, 
Scotland. The Bank of Hamilton at Hamilton, 
Ont., and the Canadian Bank of Commerce at To- 
ronto, together with the Mail and Empire building 
at Toronto, are notable additions to Mr. Waite's 
list of architectural trium])hs. .\mong his works in 
western cities may be mentioned the Oliver Opera 
House (and office building) at South Bend, Ind. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G Y— Richard Al- 
fred Waite 7vas liorn at Cambericell, eoiintv of Surrey, 
F.iiglaiid, May IJ,, ISJfS : came to the United States 
and settled in Buffalo in 1856 ; tnarried Sarah E. 
Holhnoay of Buffalo September 22, 1809 ; has pur- 
sued the profession of architecture in Buffalo since 
1871. 



Milliam ti. Malker lielongs to the class of 
business men that gi\e stability and character to the 
communitx' in which thev live. Not widely known 
beyond a circle of friends and business associates, 
and not seekers for fame or official honors, these 
men yet influence and sha])e the public .sentiment 
that determines the social, commercial, and political 
standards of the people. The talkers of the world 
have not often been its workers, and as the tendency 
of the age asserts itself, the ])ractical man of affairs 
is bei:oming more and more the typical .American 
citizen. 

Mr. Walker is the son of Stephen Walker of L'tica, 
N. Y., a i)rominent mechanic anil builder of his 
day, who moved to Buffalo in l.S.'>2, when William 
was six years of age. Buffalo had then a population 
of a few thousand only, and was regarded as de- 
cidedly "out West." The stagecoach or the Erie 
canal, recently completed, afforded the only means 
of travel to the East. The public school system was 
not then develoi)ed in liuffalo, and Mr. Walker's 
education was obtained in jirivate schools and in the 
Buffalo .'\cademy. .\t the age of eighteen, having 
decided to follow a Inisine.ss career, he entered the 
employment of Orrin P. Ramsdell, who was one of 
the pioneers in the wholesale shoe business in western 
New York, .\fter serving several years as a clerk, 



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Mr. WalktT found that hi> worth to thi- house was 
rciogni/cd ; and in lH.')(i he wa.s admitted to a |);irt 
nership in the concern. This conneiiion continued 
until IxTfi, when the to|)artnershi|) was dissolved, 
and Mr. Walker engaged in l)iisiness for himself. 

The wholesile lioot, shoe, anil ruliher house then 
estalilishetl has lieconie one of the largest 
and most reliable firms in this section of 
the state. Its trade extends not onl> 
over New \'ork, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, 
l)ut also into the far western states. In 
1(S(<7 Mr. Walker, finiling his business 
growing to large pro|)orlions, admitted 
to i>artnershi|) Kdwani C. Walker and 
William A. Joyce ; and Stephen Walker 
was added to the fimi in IMt.'!. .Ml these 
men were experienced in the business, 
and their accession to the firm gave ad- 
ditional strength to a house already noteil 
for its resources. 

Success in one commercial field in- 
variably leads to enlarged 0|>portunities 
in the business world, since men who have 
conducted their own alTairs safely will 
naturally be sought to care for the inter- 
ests of others. Mr. Walker as a fmancier 
has duplicated his success as a business 
man. In 1H84 he was elected to the 
position of president of the Merchants' 
Bank of Buffalo : and so t'aithfully and 
sagaciously has he discharged the duties 
of this resi)onsible office that the bank 
has been enabled to ]>ay regularly an 
annual dividend of six |xfr cent, and has 
accumulated in addition a surplus of two 
hundred thousand dollars. 

In politics Mr. Walker is an ardent 
Reimblican, and while never an office- 
holder or office-seeker, he has always 
responded to the calls of his party. In l«88 he was 
nominated for presidential elector on the Repub- 
lican ticket. 

Mr. Walker maintains an active connection with 
educational, philanthroi)ic, and religious institutions. 
He is a trustee of Hobart I'oUege, vice president of 
the Buffalo deneral Hospital, and warden of St. 
Paul's C"hur<h. He is also vice president of the 
fidelity Trust & Ciuaranty t'om|)any, and of the 
Men hants' Kxchange. In all these positions of trust 
and res|)onsibility he is noted for disinterested 
action, fidelity, and unim|)ea< hable integrity. 

J'J-: NS o\a I. CUR OXOL OGY—W 'illiam 
Hfiiry ll'ii/Ayr was /'orn at i'tica, X. )'., Auf^isl 20, 
ISM : was fJinalfil nt the Buffalo Aindemy : rn/rrcf 



the whoUsaU shoe house of O. P. Ramsdell in 1S44, 
•nil/ was assoi'iateii in f>tir/ner.Jii/> with him, lS.'>lj-7li ; 
manieJ Edilh Kimherly oj Buffalo Odoher 21, 
IStiO : was nominated for ftresiJential elector in 1888 ; 
has lonJueteil the wholesale hoot ami shoe business of 
Will II ll'aM't" ,T' Co. since 187 H. 




30bn .16. lUcbCr has lived much in few years. 
He has l>i-en e"|ually sukcssAiI in different lines of 
activity — in business, in public ofti( e, and in financial 
affairs. He is a native of Buffalo, and was born in 
a favorable time to test his mettle and (ajiacity ; for 
he was in his nineteenth year when I'ri-sident Lincoln 
called for troo|)h. 

.Vinong the many gran<i regimenLs sent into the 
field by the |-jnpire State, none w.xs more famous 
than the Kllsworth regiment, |)opularly known as 
"The Avenger;," com|)Osed of men representing 
every ward and town in the state. The memliers 
were selected by lioards of examiners, an<l Mr. WeU-r 
was cho.scn from the seventh ward of Buffalo. One 
of the examiners exprcs.scd the fear that Mr U'. Ikt 



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MEN OF NEW YORK ^H'ES/EhW SECT/ON 



could not stand the hardships of camj) and battle. 
How little this examiner appreciated the staying 
])0«ers of the young soldier is realized when the fact 
is stated that Mr. Welier was never sick a day during 
the war, nor obliged to fall out of line on a march. He 
was made a (or|)oral, and being the smallest man 




JO/iX li. WE HER 

])hysically in the company, received the sobriipiet of 
the "Little Corporal." 

Mr. Weber saw active service in the field. He 
was present at the siege of Yorktown, and was made 
'2d lieutenant soon after that event. He took ]iart in 
the "Seven Days' Fight" before Richmond, and at 
Gaines's Mill he received special mention for meri- 
torious conduct. Later in the war, when the llGth 
New York regiment took the field, Mr. Weber joined 
it as adjutant. He was subsequently made acting 
a-ssistant adjutant general of Chajjin's brigade, and 
was with his command in the memorable fight at 
Port Hudson. About this time he was offered the 
colonelcy of a Ma.ssachusetts regiment or, in ca.se 
he preferred to do so, was authorized to organize a 



coloreil regiment. He chose the latter course, and 
in 18(i;>, when le.ss than twenty-one years old, he 
was made colonel of the 8Stth United States colored 
infantry; and as C'olonel Weber he fought to the 
end of the war. 

On the restoration of peace he returned to Buflalo, 
and engaged in lousiness as a grain com- 
mission merchant. Later in life (1881 
-84) he was a member of the firm of 
Smith & VN'eber, wholesale grocers. His 
public career, however, must have our 
chief attention. He was first nominated 
for sheriff of Erie county in 1870, but 
was defeated by Grover Cleveland 1)\' 
fewer than three hundred votes, Mr. 
Weber running nearly twelve hundred 
votes ahead of his own ticket. He ran 
again in 187o, and was elected by two 
thousand plurality. Meantime he had 
been appointed deputy postmaster, and 
had filled that office for three years. In 
both these positions he displayed ex- 
cellent judgment, and faithfully dis- 
charged the duties devolving upon him. 
But higher honors were in store, and 
in the same year when his old antagonist 
for sheriff was elected President, Mr. 
Weber took his seat as a representative 
in congre.ss from the 33d New York dis- 
tri( t. He was re-elected in I88f), and 
during both terms proved himself a cap- 
able rejjresentative and a public-sjjirited 
legislator. He interested himself es- 
pecially in the improvement of our canals 
by federal aid on condition that the\' 
should be free. He was a member of the 
subcommittee charged with the drafting 
of a bill to settle the Pacific-railroad in- 
debtedness, his colleagues on the com- 
mittee being e.\-S])eaker Crisp, and Mr. Outhwaite 
of Ohio. In the year following his retirement from 
congress Mr. Weber was appointed by President 
Harrison to the responsible office of commissioner of 
immigration at the port of New York. While in this 
])osition he was sent to Europe at the head of a com- 
mission to make an investigation into the sources and 
causes of immigration. His special field was Russia, 
and the part of the report dealing with that country 
was widely discussed, and was translated into French. 
The work is prohibited in Russia, though it under- 
states rather than exaggerates the evils considered. 

Mr. Weber is a vigorous, clear, and dispassionate 
writer, and he is the author of numerous articles 
and reports, < hielly on canals and the immigration 



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problem. He is a nifml)cr of tht- (i. A. R., the 
L'nion League fliil) of Brooklyn, the HulTalo and 
hlllicott cluKs, ami is a Free Mason. Si nee his with- 
drawal from official life he has been cashier of the 
.Vmerican Kxchange liank, and has rejieated in this 
new held the success that has attenile<l all the under- 
takings of his active career. 

PKRSOXAL CHROXOLOGV—John li. Weber 
Wiis born at Buffalo Sef>tember Jl, lS4-i : it'as eJu- 
i-alfii in the f<uHic schools an:l the Central //i);h School 
of Buffalo : enlisted as a iu>luntecr soldier in the 
Union army in Au;^ust, 18<tJ, and serred three years ; 
married Elizabeth /. Farthing of Buffalo January 7, 
ISiilf ; was assistant postmaster at Buffalo, 1 S1 1-7-1, 
sheriff of Erie conntv, lSi'4—70, ref>resentative in con- 
gress, ISS'tSO, and commissioner of immigration at 
the port of New York, lS!K)—')i ; has been cashier of 
American Exchange Bank of Buffalo 
since ISH/,. 

Cbarlcs JSaukcr XUbcclcr iias 

for years been a deep and earnest student 
of civil-service reform. .\s a member of 
the civil-service conuni.ssion of HulTalo 
and as chairman of that board, he has 
done work of incalculable value to the 
cause of pure politics, 'i'he time has long 
since gone by when the reform movement 
can be successfully anil openly attacked 
by i^etty politicians ; yet those who stand 
for a better civil .service, who represent 
the principle that munici|xil government 
is not spoils politics, know full well that 
eternal vigilance is the only safeguartl. 
How true Mr. Wheeler has been to the 
trust given to his care, how many annoy 
ances he has been subjected to because of 
his faithfulness, how many covert attacks 
he has warded off with the aid of his 
associates — only tho.se know who come 
into an intimate contact with the civil- 
service commission. He has labored at 
all times tor an extension of the govern- 
ing principle of merit, until he has the 
satisfaction of seeing nearly all de|>art- 
ments of the city government under the 
o|x-ration of civil-.service rules and regu- 
lations. Silas \V. Burt of the state 
civil-ser\'ice commission said lately that 
in the a|)plication of the reform to the 
city service, Buffalo was a model for all other < ities 
in the state. 

Mr. Wheeler is a lawyer by profession and an 
active practitioner. He has been such since \x~i\. 



when he was admitted to the kir. (loing to Buffalo 
three years prior to his admission, after graduat- 
ing from Willianvs t'ollege, Mr. Wheeler entered the 
ofhce of Sprague & (iorham, where he assiduou.sly 
studietl the mysteries of the law. On his admission 
to the Uir he at once liegan the practite of his pro- 
fession. His thoroughness in all things, his accurate 
knowledge of law, his care in pre|>aring cases, his 
logical presentation of the same, and his clearness 
liclore judge or jury early attraited the attention of 
older lawyers. Be< ause of these marked character- 
istics as a legal practitioner Mr. Wheeler was ad- 
mitted to jiartnership in 1HK2 by Sherman S. Rogers 
and l-'ranklin I). Locke, retaining his connection with 
this firm lor three years. During this time many 
im|X)rtant cases were handleil by him ; and it need 
hardly be added that he won his full share of victories. 




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t HAKI.F.S HARKER WIIHEI.ER 

With broadened exiK-rience and ri|>ened judgment 
.\lr. Wheeler in IMMo |>cgan to prai tice alone, and has 
remained without a (jartncr since. He is regularly 
retained bv a numl)er of business men of extensive 



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inierests, some of whom came to know him and to 
appreciate his worth while he was a partner with 
Messrs. Rogers and Locke. He is a faithful student 
of the law, and thinks the time not wasted that is 
devoted to a patient acquirement of all the details of 
legal learning. In this particular he is an example 




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for man\- other lawyers who fail to appreciate the 
fait that only constant and intelligent application 
will fit them for a successful battle in court. Mr. 
Wheeler is an excellent trial lawyer as well as a sound 
counselor. He never finds it necessary to bully and 
hector witnesses in his endeavor to bring out all that 
will be of advantage to his side of a ca,se. His ex- 
amination is marked by an admirable clearne.ss ; he 
knows exactly the object to be attained and tiie most 
direct and positive way of reaching it. In (toss- 
examination he is e(|ually exjjert, and shrewdly fights 
his way to the desired end. When presenting a ca.se to 
a jury he indulges in no mere oratory, but marshals 
his facts in strong array, sweeps away all extraneous 



matter, and bears down upon the judgment of the 
"twelve good men and true" in an irresistible 
manner. In a legal argument before a court his 
facts are again pre.sented fairly and forcibly, and his 
contentions supported by citations alwa\s relevant to 
the matter under consideration. 

If one were asked to give in a word 
the secret of Charles Barker Wheeler's 
success in life, that word would be " thor- 
oughness. ' ' 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY — 
Charles Barker U'lieekr was born at 
J^oplar Ridge, Cayuga eounly. A". Y., 
Deeember 27, IS-il ; graduated from 
Williams College with the elass of 1873 ; 
loas admitted to the bar in 187G ; married 
Frances Miinro Rochester of Buffalo June 
J8, 188-i ; was appointed member of the 
Buffalo civil-service commission March 11, 
1889, and 7C'as elected chairman of the 
board February 3, 18.92. 



Uruman G. Mbite, a justice of 

the Supreme C'ourt, is a .son of the late 
Daniel Delevan White and Alma Wilber, 
and comes from good New England 
stock. Klder John White, who settled in 
Cambridge, Ma.ss. , in 1(532, and who was 
a member of the famous Thomas Hooker's 
I ongregation, was Mr. White's paternal 
■Vmerican ancestor. His American an- 
cestor on the other side was Cieorge 
Wilber, who lived near Danby, Vt., early 
in the ISth century. Truman White 
and .Stephen Wilber, the grandparents of 
justice White, were ])ioneers in I'^rie 
( ouiity. having settled there in 1810. 

Mr. White attended the public and 
".select" schools of his neighborhood, 
and taught two winter terms in the village 
school ol Langford, Krie count\. He also spent 
a part of the years lH59-fi() at the Springville 
Academy, intending to complete a course of study 
there ; but the breaking out of the Civil War 
caused a change in his plans. In September, 1861, 
he enlisted as a private in the lOth regiment New- 
York volunteer cavalry for three years or during 
the war. He held the noncommissioned office of 
(piartermaster .sergeant in his company from August 
.'), 1862, to March 4, 18(i3, and that of orderly or 
1st sergeant from March 4, 1803, to February !), 
18(54, when he was promoted to the rank of 1st 
lieutenant. In January, 18(54, he re-enlisted in the 
field for the remainder of the war, served with his 



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regiment until the- war ended, and was mustered out 
of service at Syracuse in July, IXtJ"). 

Justice White's name has long suggested legal 
rather than military associations, and his heart was 
set upon the law from an early day. While in the 
army he read Ulackstone and Kent, hut of loursc- 
coidd not pursue his legal studies efTectively under 
such conditions. On his return to civil life he 
s|)ent some months in the oil regions of I'ennsyl- 
vania, and in January, IHtKi, entered the law ofHce 
of Judge Stejjhen l.oikwood in HulYalo as a student, 
and .soon afterward became a student anil managing 
clerk in the office of Ktlward Stevens, then one of 
the most hrilliant and successful lawyers in western 
New York. In Novemher, 1H(J7, Mr. White was 
admitted to the liar, and immediately opened an 
office on his own account. He had scarcely l)ecome 
>ettled in his new (|uarters, however, 
when his former prece|)tor tendered him 
a jiartnership on very liberal terms. The 
otTer was accepted, and the firm was 
known as Stevens \ White. Mr. Stevens 
having died in .August, iHliX, .\lr. White 
from that time until he was elected a 
judge of the Superior Court of Buffalo 
in IMill, was a.s.sociated successively with 
Cieorge Wadsworth, Nelson K.. Hopkins, 
and Seward .\, .Simons in the practice 
of the law. .Mr. White attained high 
rank as an active |>ractitioner at the 
bar. He enjoyed the confidence and re- 
gard of all who knew him : and his 
practice was extensive, varied, and siu - 
cessful in a marked degree. 

Though a strong Republican in pol- 
itics, Mr. White is not a lartisan, and 
when he was first nominated for a place 
on the bench of the Su|)erior fourt of 
HufTalo in IMKo, he received the support 
of men of both larties, and tailed of 
election by a minority of only fifty-seven 
votes in a total of thirty-three thousand. 
When placed in nomination for the same 
office in 18ill, he received a majorit) of 
over four hundred votes in a year when 
nearly all the city and county I )emo< ratii 
tickets were elected by large majorities, 
the mayor, or head of the Democratic 
city ti( ket, being elected by a majority 
of 4,')H7. This was remarkably strong 
evidence of the e.steem in which his fellow -citizens 
held him at that time, and his career on the bench 
has been such as to increase that esteem. .\|it learn- 
ing, legal ability, iin(|uestioned integrity of ]mr[X)si-. 



and a well l>alanied temjierament have characterized 
and distinguished Mr. White's judicial career. 

rr.KSONAI. til RONOLOiJY— Truman Chirk 
tl'/ilU was born at J'frrys/>uri^, A'. )'. , A/<n7 .iO, 
IS.',<I : alleiiiifil touiilry sthiHils aiiJ Sf<riiij^'illf (N. )'. ) 
Acailemy : enliilfd in the lot/i Nno York cavalry 
in 1801, and sen<ed llirouf^lwiit the 7t>ar, being Ms- 
(banned in July, ISH.'t, as 1st lieutenant : loas ad- 
mitted til the bar in lUiffalo in Xiirmber, 1807 : 
married F.mma Kate J/askins of Huffalu /•'ibruary 
ID, ISO!) : 7i>as elected judxe oj the Sufierior Court oj 
Buffalo in the fall o/ 18!>1, sen-ini; until January I, 
18!Ht, 7olien, on the abolishment of the Superior Court, 
he took his teat on the bench of the Supreme Court. 



CbOmaS 1. JjlintmO "s a living proof that 
the bov who has it in him can win success in the 




THOMAS I.. IWXTISr, 

countr) as well as in the city. His own life has 
shown that it is not necessary lo leave the village for 
the larger field of the city, if one desins. to build 
up a profitable business. Of course the chances are 



1)4 



MEX OF .\7f/r VORK—lVEST/ihW SECTfOX 



fewer in the country, but that fact contributes so 
much more to the credit of the man who takes arb 
vantage of them. Like so many other country boys, 
Mr. Bunting taught school while he was finishing his 
education. After leaving the Springville Academy 
in 1<S63 he moved to Hamburg, in l-^rie county, and 
has lived there ever since, having closely identified 
himself with the material welfare of that thriving 
town. He embarked early in mercantile Inisiness, 
and in 1868 established a general store. Close and 
intelligent application won him .success, and he is 
now the owner of tlie largest store of its kind in 
western New York. His establishment is ]io]julavlv 
known as "Six Stores in One." 

.\lways on the lookout for opportunities to widen 
his field, Mr. Bunting became identified with the 
canning business in 1881, and to his business insight 
is largely due the great measure of jjrosperity that 
has come to the Hamburg Canning Co. i'his con- 
cern has mammoth plants both at Hamburg and at 
Kden, in Erie county. Its cajiital stock is SI"", 000, 
and its yearly output is three and one-half million 
cans of fruits and vegetables, equivalent to five hun- 
dred car-loads. It finds markets in all states of this 
country and in many foreign cities. Mr. Bunting is 
interested in various other companies. He is vice 
president of the Bank of Hamburg, a stockholder in 
the Hamburg Planing Mill Co., president of the local 
water and electric-light company, and president of the 
Hamburg Investment & Improvement Co., which has 
done much for the development and improvement 
of the town. All of these enterprises have the benefit 
of Mr. Bunting's sagacity and business judgment. 

Mr. Bunting is a nemocrat in political faith, and 
has manifested a deep interest in honest politics. He 
was elected to the 52d congress from the 38d New- 
York district in 1890, and .served his term with 
much distinction. It was during this time that the 
discu.ssion over the proposed changes in the tariff 
laws wa.s at its highest point. The McKinley law- 
had been passed in 1890, and the 52d congress, 
which assembled in 1891, and w-hich was Demo- 
cratic, made a great effort to overthrow the principle 
of ])rotection. Mr. Bunting arrayed himself with 
the tariff-reform forces, took a leading part in the 
debates, and became recognized as one of the best 
authorities on that side concerning tin plate. His 
connection with the canning business, in which he 
was a large i:onsumer of tin cans, gave him a prac- 
tical knowledge of the .subject, and he wrote many 
articles for the pre.ss and for the Tariff Reform Club. 
When his term expired his party endeavored to give 
him a renomination, but he positively refused to 
return to Washington. 



.Mr. Bunting is a member of the Presbyterian 
( liurch, of the Free and Accepted Masons, of the 
Ro\al Arcanum, and of the .Ancient Order of I'nited 
\\'orkmen. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G Y— T/winas La- 
llirop B II II f tug was /wni in tlie tmou of F.tleii, N. \ '. , 
April iiJf, ISJfi; receiTCii liis cilucalioii at a lii strict 
school and the Sf'riii\:^ville Academy .- taught school in 
18(11-62 ; married Bettie Maria Newton of East 
Hamburg, N. Y., September H, IHd!) : established a 
general mercantile business in Hamburg, N. Y., in 
lH(i8 ; became manager of the Hamburg Canning Co. 
in 1880 : rcas a member of the o2d congress ( lSf>l- 
fi-S) : has lived in Hamburg since ISd-l. 

(IbnrlCS S. (IHVS ■■'^ a prominent character in 
the political, social, and Intsiness circles of western 
New York. An academic education, together with 
a close study of law, science, literature, and man- 
kind, has given Mr. Cary that tact and farsight- 
edness needed by the successful politician, business 
man, and lawyer. Of commanding presence and 
great mastery of language, he not only impresses one 
by his physical perfection, but also wins one's con- 
fidence at once by his quaint, bluff, and yet adroit 
manner of speech. Thoroughly schooled in all the 
practice of the law, he has gained a clientage in 
Olean and the oil country second to none ; and Cary 
(S: White, Cary & Bolles, and Cary, Rumsey & 
Hastings, have always appeared as counsel in im- 
(jortant cases on the court calendars of the 8th 
judicial di.strict. During the forty-five years of his 
practice he has attended e\-ery term of the Supreme 
Court held in his county. 

In politiial life Mr. Cary has been a Democrat. 
President Lincoln, however, recognizing his ability, 
appointed him commissioner of enrollment for the 
'■VIA district in 18(j3 ; and during the years 18(jo-6(j 
he was collector of internal revenue for the same dis- 
trict. In 1872 he was nominated by the Democrats 
for representative in congress, and received a major- 
ity of the legal votes in the district comprising Chau- 
tauqua and Cattaraugus counties. The Republican 
ballots in Chautau(|ua county, having been i)rinted 
" For Member of Congress " instead of " For Rep- 
resentative in Congress," as required by law, were 
invalid, and Mr. Cary might have had the whole 
vote thrown out, and n-iight thus have been .seated by 
congress. He was strongly urged to do so, and it 
w'ould have been an easy matter to give Mr. Car\- 
his seat, the Democratic ])arty having a large major- 
ity in the house of re])resentatives at that time. But 
he would not jjcrmit this, and refiised to take advan- 
tage of the technicalitx . This act alone brouglit him 



.n/:\ or .\/:ir )<)h'A—n7:sr/-:/cx SKcr/o\ 



many friends in tlu' KL-piihlitan jarty, and he was 
al)le in 1M«;!, when he received the nomination for 
member of assembly at the hands of the Demoerats, 
to overcome a large Kepuhlican majority ami to win 
the eiei tion. In the same year he was nominated by 
the l)emocrati< judicial convention for the Mlh 
judicial district for justice of the Supreme 
Court, and ran eleven thousand ahead of 
the |);irly ticket. In lSX(i President Cleve- 
land, seeking to inaugurate reforms in the 
governmental su|K"rvision of the I'acifii 
railroads, appointed Mr. Cary one of the 
national commissioners. In this ca|»acity 
he served one year, when the President 
made him .solicitor of the L'nited States 
treasury. Mr. Cary helil this ofHce until 
the close of President Cleveland's first 
term. .\t the Democratic state conven- 
tion at Svracuse in iMil.") he was strongl) 
urged to accept the nomination for .sec- 
retary of .state, but refused to allow the 
u.se of his name. 

In railroad cin les of western New \ork 
antl Pennsylvania .Mr. Cary has long been 
prominent, having been president of the 
( )lean, Bradford \' Warren, the Kendall 
v^ I'ildred, an<l the()lean& Hoii\ar rail 
roads. He is now vii e president of the 
Coudersport & Port Allegheny railroad. 
He is favorably known in l)anking circles, 
having been an incor])orator of the Kx- 
1 hange National Hank of Olean and a 
director in that institution from the time 
of its foundation. He has retained in 
abundant mea.sure the confidence and 
esteem of the community of which he 
has so long been an active member. 

I'F.RSOX.-t I. L II R ONOL O G V— 
Chitrlfs S. Clin 7i'iii horn at Hornellsrillf, 
X. }'. , Ni>7rmher J'l, 1S27 ; grailiiiUfil from Alfrtil 
(.V. J.) Aiiiilfiiix ill IS.'fi, mill from the Xational 
Law Sfliool, /ia//sioii Sfia, A'. Y., in tS.'iO : marricil 
Sarah A. Mitchell in IS-'iD ; was af>fu)inted ami- 
missioni-r of the hoani of enrollment hy President 
Liiiioln in ISH-i : Jcas eolleetor of internal rer'enue, 
ISIl'i-till : leas a meinher of the state assembly in 
ISS-l : leas apptunteil commissioner of Pacific rail- 
roads in IHSli, and solicitor of the I'nited States treas- 
ury in 1SS7 : has />racticed law in Olean since ISMl. 

• •• 

lUllUirC* H. CObt* has been a lifelong student 
of men and alfair.-^. lie is es|>ecially noted as a 
journalist who has faithfidly served the state in 
official positions. lie has been an active force in 



the formation of a sound and healthy public opin- 
ion in western New York on every prominent ipies- 
lion that has arisen during the last twenty-five years. 
He hits labored with [len and voice for the success of 
principles constituting the basis of all good govern- 
ment. 




I i/.im /s s . I/, ) 

As a prejiaration for his career he had the advan- 
tage of an excellent education. He was fitted for 
college at Rome ( N. V. ) .Academy and at Hwight's 
Rural High School, Clinton, N. \., and piiiMied a 
four years' course at Hamilton College, having 
among his classmates Klihu Root, l-'ranklin I). 
I.ocke, and other men who have since achieved dis- 
tinction. Having chosen journalism as his pro- 
fession, Mr. Cobb at once liegan his apprenticeship 
in the practical school of the rejiorter. He accepte<l 
a |)osition on the I'hicago Post, and was then ."-uc- 
cx-ssively assistant editor of the Racine Aitrocate, 
city editor of the I'tica Afornint; HeraU, editor of 
the Dunkirk Journal, and finally editor in chief of 
the l.ock|)ort Daily Joiiriia/. 



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Were it not for the absorbing work connected 
with a modern newspaper, Mr. Cobb might have 
made his mark in pure literature. His letters from 
Kurope during a year's travel abroad exhibited such 
powers of descri])tion and faculty of imparting in- 
formation in an interesting wav as have made the 




II II.I.ARn A. CO/IB 

rejiutation of many writers. His letters from Itah 
upon the economic, political, and religious condi 
tions of that country, and especially his account of 
an interview with Leo XIII., recently elected Po]x\ 
were in great demand by the press. 

His experience abroad, cou]jled with his wide 
knowledge of practical problems in education, 
equipped him in a marked degree for the high office 
conferred upon him by the legislature in 188(!, when 
he was elected a regent of the University of the 
State of New York. The duties of this position 
were fully appreciated and faithfully discharged until 
1895. He was ap])ointed by C;overnor Morton in 
that year one of the three civil-.servi<e commissioners 
of the state, and thereupon resigned from the board 



of regents, the law forbidding him as commissioner 

to hold any other official position. 

Though always a strong Republican, an active 

party worker, and a member of the state committee 

and of numerous state and local conventions, Mr. 

Cobb has ]jroved himself an impartial, efficient, and 
]jrogressive member of the board. .\t the 

first meeting of the new commission he 

wa.s elected president. It has been said 
i)y a high authority — one of the United 
States civil-service commissioners, in fact 
— that under Mr. Cobb's administration 
more has been accomplished than by any 
former state civil-service commission. 

Mr. Cobb has been called upon fre- 
iHiently to speak before teachers' associa- 
tions and editorial conventions, and has 
always delivered addresses worthy of the 
occasion. He has been at all times a 
hard and energetic worker, and has im- 
pressed himself upon his day and genera- 
tion. Few men are more widely or more 
favorably known throughout the state. 

Mr. Cobb is a bachelor, and lives in 
an ajjartment flat in Lockport. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— 
Willani Adams Cohb was born at Rome, 
N. v., July 20, IH.iy^ ; :^radiiated from 
Ilamilloii College in 1804 ; 7vas a regent 
of the University of the State of New York, 
ISSG-f),') : has been president of the State 
Civil Service Commission since 18!);') ; has 
edited the Lockport "Daily /oiinial" since 
7,977. 



30bU Z. S>arri50U is one of the 

most popular citizens of Lockport. Al- 
though still a young man, he long since 
made his mark in the community in which 
he has lived all his life. He is identified with its 
interests in many ways, and has done his full .share in 
|)romoting its welfare. His fellow-citizens delight to 
do him honor, for he has shown him.self faithful in 
small things as well as in great. No interest com- 
mitted to his care is allowed to suffer from want of 
attention and of wise counsel. This is true of him, 
not only as concerns things that have to do with the 
material and municipal welfare of the city, but also 
as regards its charities. Mr. Darrison is a man of 
the people, true to himself and true to others. 

It is because of these qualities that he has so 
often been called upon to occupy |)ositions of great 
trust and res]jonsibility. He has been prominent in 
the municipal affairs of the city for some years. 



AfF.X OF NF.IV YORK—lVFSTEflX SECT/OjX 



His first imblif office was that of alderman, in which 
he rendered services of so vahial)le a charai ter that 
he was next chosen to he a member of the board of 
supervisors. Here, again, his plain common sense 
and strict business methods were so marked that in 
IHJI'J he was elected mayor of the city, holding that 
office for two years. His administration was emi- 
nently satisfactory to the people of I.ockport. At 
present he is one of the railroad commissioners of 
the city ; a member of the board of education ; 
treasurer of the I.ockport iV IJuffaio Railway Co. ; 
and active in an official caiacity in various local 
institutions. 

.\11 that John 1. Harrison is he owes to his own 
efforts. He was born in I.ockport, and obtained his 
education in the public schools of that city. When 
sixteen years old he started out for himself by becom- 
ing an apprentice in the comi)Osing de- 
l>artnient of the Lock])ort Journal. But _ 

the op|)ortunities there seemed limiteii, 
and when, two years later, a chance came 
to engage in the flour and feed business, 
young Darrison was glad to make a 
change. I'nremitting and lareful atten- 
tion to the business in all its details has 
been followed by a success that could have 
been only dreamed of in the beginning. 
'I'he business has grown steadily and 
surely, imtil now Mr. Darrison is at the 
head of an establishment that occu])ies 
three commodious stores e<|uipped with 
the best ap])liances for handling, in the 
most approved manner anil with the 
utmost ilis|)atch, the si)ecial kind of mer- 
chandise concerned. These stores are the 
center of distribution for a very large trade 
in western .\ew York. The seed de|)arl- 
ment is ]jarticularly well organized, and 
has business in all jjarts of the country. 

While developing his private business, 
Mr. Darrison has been fully alive to the 
opportunities in other directions. He has 
done his jwrt in local enterprises of a 
public nature, the successful operation of 
which has resulted in benefit to the city 
of I.ockport. He is a stockholder in the 
I.ockport \- Buffalo Railway Co., the 
Thompson .Milling Co., and the Cnite<l 
Indurated Fibre Co. 

FF.RSONAL ClIRONOL OG Y— 

John Thomas Darrison was horn at Lofkf<orl, X. J'., 

Oitohfr 40. 18''>-> : mas eilinateii in thf f'lihlic schools : 

marrifd Laura A. Lambert of LoikfunI September 2H, 

ISSO : 7(<as e/eilci/ a/t/erman of Loikf'orl in ISH'i. mayor 



in 1S02, and school trustee in ISftit : was apftv'nteil 
supervisor in ISSO, member of the board of health in 
ISSIt, civil-service commissioner in 1S'.H>, railroad 
commissioner in ISft-l, and a member of the board of 
education in ISOo ,• has conducted a flour, feed, and 
f^rain bu-ineti in I^ock/><rt since January, JS7.i. 
• •• — 

SSCll. S. IDCilll is a.s well known throughout a 
large i«rt of western New York as any news|)ii|x'r 
etlitor in that section. This fame is not due to his 
newsiiaper work alone, but in great |)art to his activ- 
ity in |x>litics. He is a man of |)Ositive idea.s, who 
always has the courage of his convictions, and never 
hesitates to make them known. Such a man cannot 
fail to impress himself u|>on any community in which 
he lives. He may make foes — a |>ositive man al- 
wavs does that — but he is never without friends. In 




i 



/tl//\ T. ItARKISnS 



fa<t. he derives more phd<iso|ihu s.itisla< tion Irom the 
opposition of enemies than pleasure from the support 
of friends. In |)olitics it is often a compliment to a 
man that Mr. .Soand-So op|)oses him. 



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MK.\ OF .\F.ir VOKk'—U-ESTFRX SKCTIOX 



We think of Mr. Dean nowadays as an old Chau- 
tauquan, since he has long been a resident of James- 
town ; but he was born in Randolph, Cattaraugus 
county. His early education was obtained in the 
common schools. When someone asked him where 
his education was completed, the answer was thor- 




/i/i\. s. DEAN 

oughly characteristic — "It has never been com- 
pleted ; I am still a student. ' ' Being still a student, 
Mr. Dean is a growing man : it is only the man that 
knows it all who ceases to develop. 

In 187X, when only eighteen years old, Mr. Dean 
became a member of the firm of Sampson, Kittell iV' 
Dean, who published a paper called the Register at 
I'jnlenton, Penn. He next associated hinwelf with 
the Rev. J. J. Keyes in the ])ublication of the Sun- 
day yl//>'/'w at Olean, N. Y. This partnership con- 
tinued through 1881 and 1882. From Olean Mr. 
Dean went to his native town of Randolph in the 
year last named, and there, in partnership with (\. W. 
Roberts, published the Randolph Register. Here he 
remained until May, 188/1. Jamestown was then, as 



it is now, a bustling, growing city, the metropolis of 
Chautauqua county, and the seat of many prosperous 
manufactories. The place seemed to offer a fine field 
for another live newspaper, and in November, 1885, 
Mr. Dean formed the News Pul)lishing Company, 
and established the Jamestown N'ervs. Of this paper 
he has been editor ever since, with the 
exception of five months in 1894, when he 
served as a member from Chautauqua 
county of the state constitutional conven- 
tion. This is the only office to which 
Mr. Dean has ever been elected, and the 
only one for which he was ever a candi- 
date. 

Mr. Dean is an ardent Republican in 
political belief, and his journalistic work 
is largely in the line of political writings. 
He handles all subjects of that nature 
with a directness of purpose that can 
never be mistaken. A spade is a spade 
to him, and he never hesitates to call 
things by what he conceives to be their 
proper names. He has a large fund of 
information on many subjects, and his edi- 
torials command wide attention. Though 
often attacked, he is ever ready with reply, 
and a controversy is very much to his 
liking. Besides his journalistic writings 
he has contributed politico-economic 
articles to various publications. 

Outside of his newspaper work Mr. 
Dean's activities have been mostly devoted 
to politics. He has been an earnest 
worker both with the leaders and in the 
ranks. Sometimes he has been with the 
controlling interests of his parly and some- 
times against them, but with one excep- 
tion he has acquiesced in the decrees of 
the party conventions in nominations. 
The fight he led in this exception resulted in the de- 
feat at the polls of the candidate opposed by him. 

Mr. Dean is a firm believer in the free coinage of 
silver on a basis of sixteen to one, and in govern- 
mental ownershi]) of essential monoijolies. He is 
oppo.sed to ballot reform, high license, and civil- 
service reform, all of which he terms " fads." How- 
ever much others may differ from him on these 
subjects, it must be conceded that he is honest and 
fearless in his o])position. 

PERSONAL CIIR ONOL O G \ — Benjamin S. 
Dean was born at Randolph, N. 5 '. , Afay 10, ISdO ,■ 
began work as a newspaper ivriter in 1878 : married 
Entile C. Blasdell of Attiea, N. V., June 27, 
188-i : laas elected a member of the state constihitional 



.\//:x OF .\/:if voKK—iyF.sTFR.y sKcr/ox 



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convention in lSf>-i : organizeii the Nnos Publishing 
Company in JSS-'t, and iuis filitfii tlif Jinnf.ifim>n 

" Nrtc:<'\in,f. 

TOltlliam Carvl ]£lv o"is his success as a 

lawvL-raiul man olallairs to an indoniitahlc will con- 
trolled by sound judgment, wide knowledge, and 
practical ex|jerience. When once he has grappled 
with a problem, he holds on till a solution is ob- 
taineil. He has been the projotor, organi/er, and 
promoter of a number of important undertakings in 
the electrical field, and has succeeded in the face of 
great discouragements. He has had the faith and 
the energy that, united, overcome all obstacles. The 
law, it has been truly remarked, has to-day become 
a business. The old-lime, slow-going, |)edantic man 
of books would be out of place in a modern law office 
or lourt room. In his stead has come 
the <|uiet, accurate thinker, well grounded 
in the princi|)les and practice of the law, 
but po.s-sessing in addition a mind adapted 
to the complicated forms and involved 
methods of the commercial world as it 
exists to-day. 

i'o speak of Mr. Ely as a business 
lawyer seems natural. Yet he is some- 
thing more than that, for he is a successful 
advocate, and has the valuable gift known 
In the profession as a judi< iai mind. But 
his work in connection with such corpora- 
tions as the Niagara I-'alls Power Co. and 
the Buffalo &: Niagara Kails Klectric rail- 
way exemplifies and emphasizes the prac- 
tical side of .\lr. Kly's character. He was 
one of the five original promoters and 
incorporators of the power company. He 
l)repareti and had < harge of the legislation 
l>ertaining to its original charter, and 
assisted in pre|)aring and had charge of 
all subseijuent legislation ; and he has 
been a trustee and local counsel of the 
( om|»any from its organization. He was 
the princijial promoter of the railway 
com[)any, and carried the enterpri.se to a 
successful end ilespite the jianic of 1X9.S- 
!!.'), which threatened at one time to 
block the project. He is president of the 
comjany. 

Mr. Kly is a native of the Kmpire State, 
and received the greater [art of his ele- 
mentary and college training within its borders. 
.\fter a sound preliminary education he took up the 
study of law, and was admitted to the liar at East 
Worcester, N. Y., where he practiced lor three years 



before settling in Niagara Kails. His career as a law- 
yer has been unusually successful and brilliant, and 
the firm of Ely, Dudley cS; C'ohn, numliering among 
its clients many ini|X)rtant corporations and manu- 
facturing comjanies, has to-day the most extensive 
legal business in Niagara county. 

Legislation anil law are so intimately connected 
that lawyers naturally constitute the most numerous 
class in all legislative bodies. The law, more fre- 
cpiently than any other profession, lea<ls to |)olitics, 
and .Mr. Kly has been an active and prominent nieml>er 
of his party for many years. He has served as suik-T- 
visor and as as.seml)lyman, and in iNitl he received 
the Democratic- nomination for justice of the Supreme 
Court. While in the legislature he was nominated 
by his i>arty for sjieaker, and was the leader of the 
minority on the floor. He is treasurer of the I\-mo- 




\\tLl.lA.U CAKVl. Kl.y 

c ratic state central committee, and is al.so one of 
the executive committee of that organization. Al- 
though thus closely interested in [wlitics, Mr. Ely 
has cleclined nominations for offices that would W 



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likely to interfere with his paramount duties as an at- 
torney and counselor at law. His profession has been 
first with him, as it must be with every lawyer who 
is determined to win the respect and confidence of 
his clients and his brethren at the bar. 

In social life Mr. Ely holds a high position, and 
has hosts of friends. He is a member of the Masonic 
order, and has been a vestryman of St. Peter's Epis- 
copal Church since 1886. In college he was a 
member of the Chi Phi fraternity. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— William Caryl 
Ely was born at Middlejield, yV. K, February 25, 
1856 : joas educated at Cooperstmoii ( N. Y. ) Uiiioii 
School, Girard (Ra.) Academy, Delaioare Literary 
Institute (^Franklin, N. K), and Cornell University ; 
was admitted to the bar in 1882 ; married Grace Kel- 
ler of Cobleskill, N. Y., February 13, 188 J^ ; 7vas a 
member of the state assembly, 1883-85 : has practiced 
law at Nia^^ara Falls, N. Y. , since 1885. 



UbOmaS tl. JflaOler has had a thoroughly 
American career — American both in breadth and 
variet)- of experience, and in the rewards that have 
followed upon energy, intelligence, and thrift. His 
educational advantages were limited to what the 
common schools afforded nearly three-(|uarters of a 
century ago. His first paid employment began 
when he was eleven years old, and was in a bark 
mill connected with a tannery. The compensation 
was board and one shilling a day. From six months' 
labor he saved ten dollars, which he deposited in a 
New York savings bank. When he withdrew the 
deposit, after attaining manhood, the original sum 
had been fiilly doubled by interest. At sixteen Mr. 
Flagler was apprenticed to the printing trade in the 
ofifice of the Chenango Republican, Oxford, N. Y., 
at a compensation of board, \va.shing, mending, and 
forty dollars a year. When his employer died two 
years afterward, Mr. Flagler formed a partnership 
and bought the pajier. His cash capital was seven- 
teen dollars. For two years he rode one day each 
week over the Chenango hills and valleys distribut- 
ing the paper to the subscribers. After five years' 
exjjerience in the newspaper business, he sold his 
interest in March, l8o(), and went westward to 
Lockport with $1,200, the profits of his labor, .se- 
curely belted about his body. 

Lockport was thenceforwartl Mr. I'lagler's home, 
{•'or about two years he worked as a journeyman 
printer, earning the current wages of eight dollars a 
week. In September, 1838, he bought the Niagara 
Courier, again embarking in the newsjiaper business 
on his own account. The Courier was a Whig 
paper, and brought him into active pnrtici])ation in 



politics. Seward and Marcy were opposing candi- 
dates for governor, and Mr. Flagler took an active 
part in the canva.ss, not only in his paper, but also 
by accompanying the Whig candidate for congress 
about the county and speaking with him at public 
meetings. This speaking tour doubled the subscrij)- 
tion list of the Courier. Mr. Flagler also took a prom- 
inent part in the presidential campaign of 1840. He 
made the dedicatory address at the comjjletion of the 
log cabin at the junction of old and new Main streets 
in Lockport, before an immense throng of people. 
Millard Fillmore, elected vice president four years 
later, delivered an address on the same occasion. 

In 1842 and again in 1843 Mr. Flagler was elected 
to the state legislature. The first year he was chair- 
man of the committee on grievances, and the second 
year he was a member of the committee on canals. 
Only two men are now living who antedate Mr. 
Flagler in assembly membership. 

In 1842 Mr. Flagler sold his newspaper, and en- 
gaged in the hardware business, retaining an interest 
therein for twenty-seven years. In 184il he was 
elected treasurer of Niagara county, and held the 
office for three years. In 1852 he was chosen repre- 
sentative in congress for the district embracing 
Niagara and Orleans counties. He took |)art in the 
struggle over the Kansas- Nebraska bill, and was one 
of the hundred who voted against it because it re- 
pealed the prohibition of slavery in those territories. 
He was almost unanimously re-elected to the next 
congress, the 34th (1855-57), and took part in the 
memorable ten weeks' contest over the speakershij) 
that ended in the election of Nathaniel P. Banks. 
Out of the disorganization of parties typified in this 
contest sprang the Republican party. In 18()0 Mr. 
Hagler was returned to the legislature, and became 
chairman of the committee on ways and means, and 
of a special committee which unavailingly proposed 
legislation preventing railroad discrimination. In 
this term of the legislature Mr. Flagler took a stand 
in advance of his time by returning, unused, railroad 
passes presented to him. He was the only member 
who did this. The list of Mr. Flagler's public 
offices closes with his service as a member of the 
constitutional convention of 18G7-()8. 

In his own community Mr. Flagler has held many 
]jositions of trust and honor. He has been, from 
the beginning, a director of the Lockport Hydraulic 
Co., which has expended large sums of money in 
making the surplus canal water, taken from the head 
of the locks, available for water power. He has 
thus been instrumental in building up Lock|)ort and 
making it a manufacturing town, .\mong the in- 
(histries so created b\' this companv is the Holl)' 



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Manufacturing Co., organi/cd by Mr. Flagler in IS")!) 
with a capital ol" S-Jd.dOO, of which he furnishcit half. 
He wa-s made president at the lieginning. and ha.s helil 
the office ever .since, building the concern into an 
institution of national re|)utation. < )ther enterprises 
with the organization of which he was connecteil are 
the LockjKjrt (Gaslight Co., established in 
1851 ; the .Niagara County Bank, organ- 
ized in lH.")ti : and the l.ock]X)rt A: Huffalo 
railroad, now leased by the Krie. With- 
out seeking the |>osition, Mr. Flagler has 
been called almost invariably to the presi- 
dency of the business organizations with 
which he has been connected. For nianv 
years he has stood at the head of eight 
such organizations. He has shown in 
many ways his interest in the well-being 
of l.ockport, and lately gave the city a 
dwelling house for use as a hospital. 
The city has named the institution the 
Flagler Hospital. 

.\Ir. Flagler has been active in religious 
matters since his early manhood, having 
united with the Congregational church in 
Oxford in lx.51. He was elected a ruling 
elder of the Presbyterian church in Lock- 
port in 1H4(I, and still holds the office 
after fifty-five years' service. From iMo.i 
to Xxlii he served as Sunday-school su|jer- 
intendent, being finally released at his 
own reijuest and made honorary su|)erin- 
tendent for life. When the presbvterv 
of .Niagara was incorporated in lS7o, Mr. 
Flagler was elected to the board of trus- 
tees, and has l)een |)resident of the board 
since. 

PERSOXAI. CIIROXOLOGY— 
Thomas Tlwni Flagler was horn at Pleas- 
ant \'alle\\ X. v., October 12, ISll. 
after atteiulin;^ country schools, was af>prenticed to 
the f'rintins^ trade at Oxford, X. )"., in IS27 ; 
hecame piihlisher of the Chenatv^o ' ' Re/>u/ilican ' ' in 
ISJf), and of the A'ia^'ara " Courier" in IS-iS : was 
elected to the Ne7v York legislature in 181,2, ISi-J, 
iind ISh'O : rvas treasurer of Xiagara county, lS.',!t : 
Ji'as re/>re.<enlatire in congress, IS-'tS-'u : was a mem- 
/'<■•/■ (/ the constitutional convention of 1si(i~ r.st ■ h.i. 
lived in Lockport, X. Y. , since 18-Vi. 



county in the previous ten years, almost the entire 
numlicr may l>e credited to Olean, the slight losses 
and gains in the other |iortions of the county alx>ut 
offsetting each other. .As a result of this increase of 
|)opulation, Olean applied for ami obtainetl a city 
charter, and the first rlii tidii nf iiftii .-rs for tin- new 




HI. U. \>. JfianCbOt has the honor of being 
the first man elected to hold the office of mayor of 
the city of Olean. .\ study of the census re|)ort of 
I'SltO reveals the interesting fact that of the increase 
of five thousand in the jopulation of Cattaraugus 



TlimiAS T. I lAi.l.HK 

city was held in Febniary, 1M!)4. When a com- 
munity first takes its jilace among the cities of a 
great slate it is of the utmost im|)ortance that it 
choose for its chief magistrate a man who will ad- 
minister the munici|ial affairs with due dignity an<l 
with sound biisinc-ss judgment. The voters of the 
city of Olean chose Mr. Franc hot, who had ln-en for 
nearly twenty years one of its well known and highl) 
respected citizens, prominently identified with its 
business, |K)liti<'al, .social, and religious inter-sts. 

Mr. Franchot is not a native of western New \'ork. 
but was born in Ot.sego county, and was educated 
in Schenectady. He prejored for college there, at 
Cnion School, and graduated from Cnion College 
in the class of 1H7."> with the degree of H. .\. At 



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that time the oil fields of Pennsylvania offered a 
tempting opening for ambitious young men, and Mr. 
Franchot, like many others, turned aside from the 
professional paths to which his college training in- 
vited him, and embraced a commercial career, 
trusting to industry and natural ability to win suc- 




A'. /'. ;■. FRAM IIOI 

cess. Immediately after his graduation he went to 
Millerstown, I'enn., where he was employed by a 
pipe-line company as gauger, and afterwards as 
division superintendent, .\fter spending two years 
in Millerstown he was able to begin business for 
himself as an oil producer. He went to Olean, and 
formed a partnership with his brother and with A. N. 
Perrin, under the firm name of Franchot Bros. iV 
Co. In 18M8 Mr. Perrin sold out his interest in 
the business, and the firm has since lieen known as 
Franchot Bros. 

Mr. Franchot has always been a staunch Reijubli- 
can, and he served his party well, as chairman of 
the county committee for three successive years, and 
as delegate to the national convention at Minneapolis 



in 1892. He was honored by the nomination for 
mayor in 1894, in recognition of his e.\ecutive 
ability and of his consistent devotion to the prin- 
ciples of the Republican party. 

Mr. Franchot is a prominent figure in the business 
life of Olean, and is in the forefront of all the 
schemes for advancing the prosperity of 
the city. While still maintaining his 
interest in the firm that bears his name, 
he is at the same time president of the 
Olean Improvement Co., and a director 
of the Olean Electric Light & Power Co., 
and of the F.xchange National Bank of 
Olean. 

Mr. Franchot has not allowed himself 
to become so occupied with his numerous 
business cares as to neglect the other 
aspects of our complex nineteenth-century 
life. He has been active in the work of 
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church ever since 
he first came to Olean, and for many 
years has been a member of its vestry. 
He is president of the City Club of 
Olean, and a member of the Sigma Phi 
fraternity of Union College. He was 
elected a life trustee of Union College 
in June, 1895. He is a nonresident 
member of the Genesee Valley Club of 
Rochester, and of the University Club 
and the Sigma Phi Club of New York 
city. 

PERSONA L CHR ONOL O G J '— 
Nicholas Van I 'raitken Franchot was born 
at Morris, Otsego county, N'. V. , August 
21, 18i)o ; was educated at Union School 
ami at Union College, Schenectady, grad- 
uating from the latter institution in 187n : 
married Annie Coyne Wood of Warren, 
Prnn., November f), 1870; was elected 
maxor of Olean, A^. V., in February, 1804: has 
been in business in Olean, as an nil producer, since 
1878. 



305bUa (SaSftill has been prominently con- 
nected with the growth of Lockport for over thirty 
years, and has done much to enhance its material de- 
velopment and jjrosperity. Born in the town of 
Ro\aiton, Niagara ( ounty, N. Y., his education was 
begun in the district schools, and continued in Lock- 
|)0rt L'nion School, Wilson C'ollegiate Institute, and 
Oasport Academy. For three years he taught a dis- 
trict school in the winter, and worked on his father's 
farm in summer, accumulating sufficient fimds in this 
wav to enable liim lo enter the University of Rochester 



.\f/:\ or .\/:u- voh'K—ii'FSTKKX sect/ox 



\m 



in the s|)rin{,' of lM")(i. We pri/c most what costs 
us the most elTorl, anil Judge Caskill, havinj; worked 
hard to obtain a college eduiation, naturally made 
good use of the opportunities that it offered ; and 
when he was graduated in 1H.")!» he received the 
highest honors of his cla.ss. The same year he liegan 
the study of law in the office of deorge I). I ^mont 
of I,ock|jort, and after completing the required course 
of reading, was admitted to jiractice in the courts of 
Niagara county at the December term of IMtKl. In 
1M(I2 he o|>ened an office in l.ockport, where he has 
lived and practiced ever since, with the exception of 
six months, in 1 M{i'2-ti.'{, when he jiracticed law in 
Saginaw, Mich., with William H. Sweet. In the 
spring of 1H(!;{ he returncii to l-ockporl, and formed 
a i>artnershii) with .\ndrew J. I-'.nsign, which la.sted 
until !«(}><. Since then Judge Claskill 
has practiced alone. Notwithstanding the 
infirmity of deafness, whi( h has for many 
years |)reventeil him from trying ca.ses in 
lourt, and has excluded him from several 
of the most lucrative sources of profes- 
sional income, he has built up and main- 
tained a large and varied practice, of 
which important litigations form no in- 
considerable |)art. He has also devoted 
much time, since his retirement from 
active political life in 187H, to the training 
of students for the profession to which he 
is such an honor. In this he has been 
most successful. Thirteen young men 
who gained their knowledge of law in 
his office are now in active practice, and 
without exce|)tion they have been success- 
fid in their profession : while one ha.s 
attained great eminence. 

Judge (laskill retired from political life 
when still a young man, but between the 
years lM(i.">and 1^78 he held many impor- 
tant offices in the city and county. In 
the former year he was appointed first 
city clerk of the newly made < ity of l.ock- 
port, and held the office for two years. 
In the .same year he was made clerk of 
the board of supervisors of Niagara count) 
for one year. In the spring ol 1x7(1 he 
was elected treasurer and tax i oliector ot 
the city of l.ockport, anil in the follow- 
ing year w.rs nominated for the office of 
surrogate of Niagara county, to which 
he was elected, and in which he served the fiill 
term of six years. 

Judge ( taskill's study of the law has lieen constant 
and diligent, anil in addition he has devoteil much 



time to literary, scientific, and |)hiloso|>hical sub- 
jects. He has written and published numerous 
|xiems, lectures, and addres.ses. He was the iioet at 
the annual meeting of alumni of the University of 
Rochester in lS(»r>, and one of the es.sayists of the 
.New York State liar .\s.sociation in 1M«(). He was 
one of the founders of the U|)silon chapter of the 
I'si L|>silon fraternity at the I'niversity of Roi hester. 
He is a memlier of the .New York State liar .■\s.soi ia- 
lion, and wasoneof the earliest members of the .Vmeri- 
can .A-s-sociation for the .Vdvancemenl of Science. 
PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Joshua Gas- 
kill was horn at Royaltun, X. )', Notfinhfr 4, IftS'i .■ 
was filiicatfil at llif Locitport L'nioii School, H'/lio/i 
Ci'llfx'^iii/t- Iiiititiitf, GasfHirt Acaitfiiiy, aiut the Unhri- 
silyof Roilii-^/t-r, from •>'liii!i lit x^rattiialtil ill IS'ill ■ 




/ns/ir.t i.lsKll I 

was aJmittfil to thr har in 1S>!(> : marntil Salome Cox 
of Lofkf>or/, X ) . , .\fa\ j:>, J.W-i : was afpoiiitfJ 
city clerk of I.ockf>ort in Itid-'i, ami clerk of the hoard 
of si/f>er7'isors of Xiai^ara county the same year ; ioas 



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elected treasurer of Lockport in 1870, and surrogate of 
Niagara county in 1871 ; has practiced law in Lock- 
port since 1863. 

•♦• 

]l£lCaj5Cr GreCU, a shrewd lawyer and an honest 
and successful business man, has long been one of 




ELEA/.ER GREEN 

the central figures of Chautauqua-county life, and one 
of the leading men of the city of Jamestown. 

Educated in the common schools of Busti and 
Harmony, both country towns of Chautau(|ua county, 
and afterward at the old academy at Westfield and 
the Albany l^iw School, this "Harmony boy" 
(as he is called by his admirers from that town) has 
won an enviable position in jjrofessional, business, 
and ])olitical circles. In May, IXIjX, Mr. (Jreen was 
admitted to the bar, and came to Jamestown, where 
he acted as clerk in the law office of Cook & Lock- 
wood for two years. At the end of that interval he 
opened an office for himself in the same town, 
where he has ever since resided, and where he has 
built up a large and successful ]jractice. The following 



well known law firms have had the benefit of Mr. 
Green's ability and experience : Barlow & Green 
(Byron A. Barlow); Green and Prendergast {the 
late James Prenderga.st) ; Green, Prendergast & Bene- 
dict (James Prendergast and Willis O. Benedict) ; 
Sheldon. Green, Stevens & Benedict (Porter Sheldon, 
Frank \V. Stevens, and Willis O. Bene- 
dict): (Jreen & Woodward (John Wood- 
ward) ; and the present firm of Cireen & 
Woodbury, Mr. Green being associated 
with Egbert E. Woodbury, surrogate of 
Chautauqua county. 

The legal profession readily lends itself 
to business pursuits, and Mr. CJreen's 
career amply exemplifies the fact. His 
real-estate operations have l)een on an 
extensive scale, and his numerous success- 
ful ventures in this direction have marked 
him as a farsighted investor. One of his 
most succe.ssful efforts was the reclaiming 
of swamp lands on the northern shore of 
Lake Chautauqua, and the creation of 
" Greenhurst on Chautauqua," a pictur- 
esque and popular resort, named in his 
honor. In keeping with his interest in 
lake-shore property have been his public- 
spirited efforts in establishing the artificial 
propagation of muskellunge (a kind of 
pike) at Chautauqua Lake. To this end 
Mr. Green has devoted time, money, and 
energy, and the successful establishment 
of the industry is the result. 

In politics Mr. Green is a Republican, 
and while he has been a prominent and 
influential member of his party, he has 
also won the esteem and confidence of 
all political parties. When, therefore, 
in 1S94, he consented to become a candi- 
date for mayor of Jamestown, he received 
2,!)7iJ \otes out of a total of ;],825, although there 
were two other candidates in the field. In iJSOo 
Mr. Green was a candidate for district attorne\- of 
(■hautau(Hia county, and although there were two 
other irandidates before the Republican county con- 
vention, he was nominated on the first ballot by a 
large majority, and was elected in the following 
November. 

Mr. Green holds many offices of trust. He at- 
tends the Congregational ( iiun h, and is one of its 
active supporters. 

PERSONA L CUR ONOL O G Y—Eleazer Green 
was born at Remscn, N. V. , Afarch 111, IS.'iH : loas 
educated at H'est/ield {iV. V.) Academy and at t/ie 
Albany Lmv School, from which lie receii'cd the degree 



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('/ Bachelor of Laws in 18HS .■ mairieJ .\[ar\ /;'. 
finm>n of Jamestini>n, N. Y., Niri'emlifr .'i, tST-i ; 
leas elfiteJ ckrk of III e villa}^e of Jameslinvn in ISTiJ, 
aiiit mayor of the city of Jamestoion in ISItJ/ ; was 
elected district attorney of Chai/taiii/iia county in ISO't ; 
hilt f>riic/ice</ late in /amestiion since lS7il. 

KvObCCt 3. Gl'053 "^s thrown early in life 
upon his own resources, and has achieved success liy 
his own enerjiy. He was liorn in a village of 
Ontario, Canaila, and his schooling was limited to 
ahoiit five years in the common schools of his native 
place. Before he entered his teens he had taken 
up the study of telegraithy, and while a mere boy he 
began to sup[)ort himself. lie .served as telegrajih 
operator tor the .Montreal Telegraph Co. and the 
Dominion Telegraph Co. at Brighton, ()nt., anil 
later engaged in the railway service in 
a similar cajxicity. 'The hours were long 
and the work was hard ; but it is |ireci.sel\ 
such conditions that prove and develop 
character. Mr. (Cross's abilities and per- 
severance were ei|ual to the test, and his 
progress was stead)'. 

He continued in railway employment 
until 1««2. The service called him to 
varioMs places, and March, 1«73, found 
him at Dinikirk, .\. \., as train dispatcher 
for the I'irie railroad. While there he 
came under the ob.servation of Horatio C. 
Brooks, founder of the Brooks Locomotive 
Works of Dunkirk. Widening ojjportuni- 
ties, due to the recognition of his abilities, 
called .\lr. (Iro.ss to more im]>ortant posi- 
tions in the railway service in the West. 
Thence he returned in March, IHM'J, to 
form a ixirtnershi]) with Mr. Brooks, M. 1.. 
Ilinman, and others connected with the 
Brooks Locomotive Works. His rise 
there, like that of his earlier career, has 
been continuous and rapid ; and he is now 
the vice president of the (om|)any. His 
business has made him an extensive 
traveler, as well in foreign lands as in this 
country ; and he has been instnmiental 
in the introduction of the .American loco- 
motive into Cuba and Brazil. 

Mr. (Jross's business ability and energy 
have been called into use by other institu- 
tions than the Brooks Locomotive Works. 
.Sinie May, 1 «!•!•, he has been i)resident of the Inited 
States Radiator Co. of Dunkirk : and upon the organ- 
ization of the Hartford .\xle Co. of Dunkirk in 
lanuarv , l.Hil."), he was < hosen a director. Since 



January, IMSJ.'J, he has l>een president of the Voting 
.Men's Building .\.s.so< iation. Limited, of Dunkirk. 
'This association, with a view to the improvement of 
the city, built and has conducted the fine Hotel 
Cratiot in Dunkirk. 

Though he has not .sought office. Mr. dross has 
l)een an active and piiblic-spiritctl citizen, and has 
taken a citizen's ]>ro|K'r interest in |x>liti<'al duties. 
He is an earnest Republican, and in l«K;{ser\ed as 
chairman of the Republican < oinmittee of Chautau(|ua 
county — one of the strongest Republiian counties 
in the Krnpire State. Sinicjune, 1M!);{, he has l»cen 
a member of the lioard of water commissioners of 
Dimkirk — a life |iasition that is consiileretl one of 
the most honorable dislim tions within the |K)Wer of 
the muni< i|)aliiy to l>estow. In all matters (oncern- 
ing the pros|)erity of the city Mr. (Iross takes an 




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active interest. Since January, 1H!I."), he has lieen 
vic-e president of the Dunkirk Board of 'Trade, a 
Itody devoted to the advancement of the city in its 
manufacturing and commercial relations. 



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Mr. (iross has a wide circle of friends. He is a 
member of the Union League Chib of Chicago, the 
Old-Time Telegraphers' Association, the American 
Railway Master Mechanics' Association, and the 
Engineers' Club of New York city. He is a Mason 
of the 8'2d degree, and belongs to the order of the 




(IIARI.es E. HEQVE\tliOl-RG 

Mystic Shrine. He has been a trustee of the First 
Presbyterian Church of Dunkirk since 1883. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Robert J. 
Gross was born at Brighton, Canada West, Nove7nber 
21, 18!)0 ; received a common-school education: was 
in the telegraphic and railway service, 186S-82 ; 
married Helen E. Wheeler of Milwaukee, Wis., 
June 2ii, 1887 : has been a partner in the Brooks 
Locomotive Works, Dunkirk, N. V. , since 1882. 



Cbarles E. Ibequembourg pos.sesses in a 

marked degree the ([ualities of self-reliance, courage, 
and inflexibility of purpose. Ajjply these character- 
istics mentally to the branches of activity wherein 
his energy has found an oullet, and it is easy to 



understand why he has been a successful contractor 
upon a large .scale, and an instrument in the develop- 
ment of important material interests. 

Mr. Hequembourg began life in the village of 
Dunkirk, N. Y., and received a common-school edu- 
cation there, in Dansville, N. Y., and in Warren, 
Penn. To this education he added an 
experience gained in the war, having been 
mustered, as a boy of eighteen, into the 
(;8th regiment, company D, N. Y. N. G. 
After receiving an honorable discharge at 
the expiration of his term of enlistment, 
he entered the tpiartermaster's department 
of the Army of the Cumberlanil, where 
he was employed until after the close of 
the war. Since then he has been engaged 
in business in various capacities as 
mechanic, clerk, contractor, and civil 
engineer. 

His first large contract was the erection, 
for the board of education, of the second- 
ward schoolhouse in the village of Dun- 
kirk. The next year he put up the first 
brick schoolhouse built in the city of 
I'itusville, Penn. In 1871 he constructed 
the Dunkirk waterworks. In 1873-74 
he built the Hyde Park waterworks, near 
Chicago. In 1879 he erected, with asso- 
ciates, the St. James hotel at Bradford, 
Penn., which was the second brick build- 
ing in the place, but which was so well 
constructed that it holds its own among 
the later buildings of the city. 

As a natural result of his location, Mr. 
Hei|uembourg became interested in oil 
development. He was one of the early 
operators in the Bradford oil fields, and 
has since been concerned in oil and gas 
production in many other parts of the 
country. In 1878 he built, with others, the plant of 
the Bradford Gaslight & Heating Co. — the first cor- 
|)oration in this country to supply natural gas to a 
municipality for both illumination and heat. In 1 88(1 
this company, of which he was ]jresident and engineer, 
installed a gas-pumping station of (),()()(), 000 cubic 
feet daily capacity at Rixford, Penn., to pump gas to 
the city of Bradford. This was at that time the only 
plant in the world pumping gas through a pipe-line. 
Later he was instrumental in carrying out the same 
idea upon a much larger scale. As president and 
engineer of the Columbus Construction Co. , he un- 
tlertook in 1888 the building of a natural-gas pipe- 
line connecting the gas fields of Indiana with the city 
of Chicago. In 1X92 the (orporation completed and 



.I/A.\ OF XEW VORK—IVKSTKRX SKCr/OA 



III? 



turnt-d over to the owners — the Indiana N'atiiral-gas 
iS: ()il Co. and the (-"hieago Ktonomii- Fuel ( Ia.s Co. 
— the largest and longest natural-gas piiHj-line sys- 
tem in the world, fully ei|iiip|)ed with modern pump- 
ing stations and ai)plianres ; and the plant is now in 
successful and profitable Ojieration. 

Mr. Hetiuenibourg has exhibited, as a citizen and 
in official life, the same (|ualities of progressiveness 
and firmness of purpose that have characteri/eil his 
business career. Though his politii al affiliations 
have always been Republican, he was cho.sen mayor of 
Dunkirk, a Democratic city, by a large majority over 
the Democratic candidate. His election was due in 
great jiart to a movement, outside of [arty lines, to 
make fitness and not jwlitics the controlling element in 
munici[)al affairs. The application of business njeth- 
ods to mimicipal |X>litics proved here, as elsewhere, 
eminently .satisfactory. His administra- 
tion was marked by a large increa.se in 
local |jatriotism, and e.xercised much 
inthience upon the i)rosijerity of the coni- 
munity. At the election in March, IKit'), 
.Mr. Hei|uen)boiirg was re-elected mayor 
without 0|)position. The only other pub- 
lic office he has held is that of civil engi- 
neer of Dunkirk. He has also rendered 
|)ul)lic service to that city as president of 
the Commercial .-Vs.sociation. 

.Mr. He(iuenibourg has been a member 
of the Masonic fraternity for many years. 
He is a Knight Templar and a .'^Sd degree 
-Mason, belonging to the body known as the 
Ancient .-Vccejited -Scottish Rite Masons 
as organized by 111. Joseph Cerneau in 
1S((7. Mr. He<iuembourg is Commander 
in Chief of Dunkirk Consistorv, No. ."54. 

FE/iSOX.AJ. CHROXOLOCY— 
Charles Ezra //ei/nfm/miiri; 7i<as horn al 
Dunkirk, X. )', July 0, lSi-'> ; was eilu- 
caUil in the eommon schools ; serreii in the 
United Slates army from ISUS to the elose 
oj the war : marrieil Harriet E. Thurher 
of St. Louis, Mo., July SI, 1812 ; was an 
early of^erator in the I'ennsxlvania oil fie Lis, 
ami a pioneer in the ilerelopment of nalural- 
\'as transportation : was elected mayor oJ 
Dunkirk in .March, 18!)^, and ai;ain in 
.March, 1S!>.'> ; has been euj^aged in business, 
chiefly as civil en;.;ineer and contractor, in 
Dunkirk since ISH.'i. 

lUlllUUU /ID. Ill"l3b ha-s earned no less than 
three reputations, each of them enviable. The first 
is that of one of the most aitivelv useful citizens of 



Olean, i\. V ; the second is that of an able manager 
of public institutions ; the third and most distinctive 
is that of a high authority in the complicated busi- 
ness of oil refining. To this business Mr. Irish has 
devoted over half of his sixty-odd years : and both 
his ex|H.-rience and knowledge, which is as s< ientific 
.xs it is practical, place him among the cxixTts whose 
opinions are frequently called for in the various 
de|)artments ol oil refining. 

.\lr. Irish was a \ankee boy, who l»egan earning 
bread ami butter at thirteen years of age. l-'or 
eleven years thereafter he worked in a grocery, 
finally leaving that business to accept a clerkship in 
the -Sew Hedfor<l < -Mass. ) cu.stom house. He re- 
tained this |)osition through the I'ieneand Hiii hanan 
administrations — lK.');!-<il. He began his connec- 
tion with the oil industrv, first with the Kairhaven 




Wll.l.liM \i tA't.sit 



Oil Co., and then with the New Bedford Oil Co., 
holding the oftice of su|)erintendent for two years in 
each concern. In lM(i"), with more cx|)cricncc and 
skill than were gencrallv |>os.ses.sed bv those who 



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flocked to the oil country, Mr. Irish decided to in- 
vest his talents where the promise of return was 
greatest. Arriving at the oil district, he immediately 
became treasurer and superintendent of the Wam- 
sutta Oil Co. in Venango county, Penn. Since that 
time he has occupied similar positions in several 
other companies, including the Octave Oil Co. at 
Titusville, Penn., and the Acme Oil Co., to which 
the former company sold out. He is now general 
manager of the Acme Works, which are owned by 
the Standard Oil Co. 

Wherever he has lived Mr. Irish has been promi- 
nently identified with the best interests of the com- 
munity. In his native town, in Titusville, and in 
Olean, he has served long and with distinction as a 
member or as president of school boards. In connec- 
tion with the requirements of this office, as he regards 
the matter, he has carried on courses of study result- 
ing in a broad culture that has been at once a satis- 
faction in itself and a source of power. Mr. Irish 
was the [jresident of the first board of water commis- 
sioners in Olean during the construction of the city 
waterworks. That his acquaintance with the scien- 
tific side of municipal management is by no means 
narrow is proved by the fact that he has for several 
years been a member of the local board of health, 
and is now its president. Other conspicuous posi- 
tions, such as that of vice president of the Olean 
Electric Light & Power Co. and of the Board of 
Trade, indicate the commercial talents possessed by 
Mr. Irish. Altogether it may be said that Olean is 
healthier, better taught, better lighted, and better 
watered, because of Mr. Irish's residence within its 
borders. 

Executive aliility such as that of Mr. Irish has not 
been allowed by state officials to go to waste. (;o\- 
ernor Cleveland appointed him to a directorate on 
the board of the State Hospital for the Insane, located 
at Buffalo, and Governor Hill rea])i)ointed him. 
Mr. Irish is an attendant of the Presbyterian 
church. His spare time is devoted to efforts to pro- 
mote the social and educational interests with which he 
is identified, or to study connected with these interests. 
PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G V— William 
Mitchell Irish was born at Fairhaven, Mass. , July S, 
1829 ; attended district schools in early youth ; was 
clerk in a grocery, 1842-53 ; married Sarah Jane Dun- 
ham of Fairha7'en December 11, 1851 : was a 
custom-house clerk, 1853-61 ; was superintendent of 
oil concerns, 1861-U5 ; was treasurer and superin- 
tendent of Wamsutta Oil Co., McClintockville, Penn., 
1865-72, and of Octave Oil Co., 1872-7(1 ; has 
lived at Olean, N. Y. , since 1880 as manager of the 
Acme Oil Works. 



CbarleS Z. XinCOln has done his part in 
making the fame of the Cattaraugus-county bar. On 
many occasions he has shown his fellow-lawyers the 
value of fundamental training in the principles of the 
law and of persistent research into legal history. 
Mr. Lincoln at present holds the important position 
of chairman of the New York commission of statu- 
tory revision, to which he was appointed bv Cov- 
ernor Levi P. Morton in January, l<sy."). In virtue 
of this office he is also the confidential legal adviser 
of the governor. How important this position is 
may be seen from the fact that every bill passed by 
the legislature is referred to Mr. Lincoln for his 
opinion as to its constitutionality and its other legal 
aspects, and many bills have been amended, at the 
governor's suggestion, to meet the objections rai.sed 
by Mr. Lincoln to the form or phraseolog)- or re- 
ijuirements of the bill. Mr. Lincoln is also chair- 
man of the commission to revise the code of civil 
procedure. As may be inferred from the facts already 
cited, his legal attainments are of a high order. 

He is a son of Vermont, though he has lived in 
Cattaraugus county since his early childhood. His 
mother died when he was four years old, and his 
father when he was eight, and he was left to fight his 
way in the world as best he could. The story of his 
life resembles that of so many successful men, in re- 
counting efforts to obtain an education under the 
most adverse conditions. He ultimately succeeded 
in taking an incomplete course at the Chamberlain 
Institute at Randoljjh, N. Y.; but his school attend- 
ance stopped at this ]joint. 

Determining to study law, Mr. Lincoln entered 
the office of Cary & Jewell, of Olean and Little Val- 
ley in 1871, and three years later was admitted to 
the bar. In August, 1874, he opened an office in 
Little Valley, where he has practiced ever since. 
His time and advice have been freely given to the 
community in which he has lived, and in which he 
is honored. For four years he represented the town 
of Little V^alley on the board of supervisors ; twice 
he has been president of the village of Little Valley, 
and once trustee of the same : and for seven years he 
served as a member of the village board of education. 

When the ?>2d senatorial district needed a sound 
man, an able thinker, and a hard worker to represent 
it in the constitutional convention that .sat in this 
state in 18i)4, Mr. Lincoln was chosen. It is not 
too much to say that he was a force in that body of 
able men, and was early recognized as one of the 
best of the constitutional lawyers who joined in guid- 
ing the action of the body. He served on a mmiber of 
very important committees, including those on ap])or 
tionment, jirivileges and elections, and civil service. 



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Mr. Lincoln has a ready |)cn. A scries of articles 
on " Voung Men in I'olitiis " which he wrote in 
1«M4 proved very popular, and attracted consider- 
alile attention throughout his section of the state. 
He has al.so written much on legal and historical 
topics for news|)ai)ers and legal journals during the 
last twenty years; and in l«}t;{ he wrote 
a history of the Ueni h and l)ar of Catta- 
raugus county. At his home in Little 
\'alley he has a fine library, |iarticiilarly 
rich in subjects of history and law. t)ut- 
side the practice of his profession he has 
found his chief recreation in the study of 
history, es|)ecially the branches that have 
a leaning toward the law. Ik- is likewise 
a master of the philosophy of law. The 
education that was denied him in his 
youth has been won as he went along. 
He is a thorough stuilent, and is remark- 
ably well grounded in the law of the 
ancient Romans. His lectures and ad- 
dres.ses on law and history involve im- 
men.se research, and are in great demand. 

Though "so thoroughly de\otedtothe 
law, Mr. Lin( oln has never neglected his 
social duties. He is a member of the 
.Ancient Order of United Workmen, and 
of the Methodist Kpis<o|tal church. 

PERSOXAL CHROXOI. OGY— 
Charles /,. Liiicoln was horn at Gra/ton, 
Ft., August ■'>, 1S4'S ,■ was fducati-it in the 
eoinmon sehools and at Chaml>erlitin Insti- 
tute, Ramiolph, N. )'..• marrieii Lusette 
Bon steel 0/ East Otto, A'. ¥., Noxiember 
12, ]8~4 ; was a member from the S2d 
senatorial district of the state constitutional 
cotwention in tSUJ, : was appointed chair 
man of the commission of statutory rrfision 
and gmrrnor' s confidential lej^al adviser, hy 
Gmrrnor Morton, January 2, 1S95 ; was appointed 
chairman of the commission to rerisr the Nno ) 'ork code 
of cifil procedure June lit, ISOli : has practiced lan' at 
Little Valley, N. K, situe 187 U- 



TRObCrt 114. /IDarViU is a business man, a pro- 
gressive titi/en, a man whose name stands among 
the first in good causes — in short, one of the men 
who help generously to make the wheels go round in 
whatever community they live. As he has sjient his 
whole life in Jamestown, he has the imustial good 
fortune of .seeing about him the fruition of the elTorts 
he has |)ut forth during a remarkably active career. 

With such ]>re|)aration as could lie obtained from 
jiublic an<l private schools, a course at Hartwick 



Seminary, Otsego county, N. Y., and the training 
of a business college, .Mr. Marvin liegan his career. 
He started in business life as a l>ookkee|x:r, and soon 
after l>ecame manager of the business of his father, 
the late Judge Richard I". Marvin. This jiosition 
liL- held ff)r nearh twcntv-five vears. He also 




lietame connected with the luml)er business, an«l 
organized the firm of Marvin, Riilofson & Co.. 
which still continues iintler his management. To 
give a detailed ace oiint of the business interc-sLs with 
which Mr. Marvin has l>een identified, and to re- 
count the labors prompted by the philanthropic, 
IMtriotic, and fraternal instincts of his < haracter, 
would require more sjoce than our present limits 
allow. .Merely brief mention can W made of the 
efforts that have rendered him a jKitent and valuable 
fai'tor in the community. 

The city of Jamestown has to thank Mr. Marvin's 
active public spirit lor a numlier of the civic advan- 
tages that it enjoys. He was chairman of the com- 
mittee that formed the charter under which the citv 



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was organized ; he first set on foot the movement 
that resulted in free mail delivery there ; he was 
largely instnnnental in su|)|)lying the city with good 
water ; he organized the local telephone company, 
and was for years its president ; he has been a volun- 
teer fireman in the Jamestown fire department, and 




ROHEKT \. .\f.lA'l7X 

chairman, vice president, and president of the State 
Firemen's A.ssociation. In addition to local services 
rendered to the Republican party as supervisor, dele- 
gate to conventions, and nominee for state senator, 
he served as elector on the Republican ticket in 
1884. 

Mr. Marvin's brain has been prolific in conceiving 
and carrying out commercial ventures that have con- 
tributed to the pros])erity of the community. The 
Jamestown street railway, the Chautauqua Lake rail- 
way, and other enterprises are indebted to him as 
promoter, incorporator, or i)resident. He was an 
incorporator of the I-akewood Land iV Imjirovement 
Co., whose holdings border beautiful Lake Chautau- 
<|ua, and is a director of the comjiany. He holds a 



similar position in the VVyckoff Harvester, Mower 
& Reaper Co., in the Preston Farming Co., and in 
the Chautauqua County National Rank. 

In the midst of these manifold l)usiness interests 
.Mr. Marvin has found opportunity to serve his 
fellows in other ways as well. As chairman of the 
committee to raise funds for the (nistavus 
Adolphus Or])hanage, as a member of the 
advisory board of the Women's Christian 
As.sociation, and as advisory member of 
the State Charities Aid Association, he 
has proved himself the friend of the unfor- 
tunate. He is a trustee of the James 
Prendergast Lilirarv Association of James- 
town, and is a lover of books and works 
of art. He is one of the charter mem- 
bers of the Jamestown Club, and was for 
eighteen years its president. He is a 
member of Mt. Moriah lodge, F. & A. 
M., and of the A. O. U. W. ; an honor- 
ary member of the L3th Separate Com- 
pany, N. G., S. N. Y. ; a member of the 
Chautauqua County Historical Society, 
and of the Sons of the Revolution. With 
the death of Mary A. Prendergast ended 
the historic family of the founder of 

f Jamestown — James Prendergast, from 

whom the town was named. The prop- 
erty accumulated by him and his descend- 
ants has gone into jjermanent monu- 
ments, such as the Prendergast Library, 
and the beautiful stone church that adorns 
the city of Jamestow'n. Mr. Marvin was 
one of two executors of the Prendergast 
estate. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— 
Robert Nnoland Marvin was horn at 
Jamestown, A'. Y. , October IS, 1845 : 
attended fiiiblic and prii'ate se/wids. Hart- 
wick Seminary, and Bryant is" Stratton' s Business 
College, Buffalo : began business as bookkeeper, and 
later became manager of his father\< business; 
organized the lutnber business of Man'in, Rulofson &= 
Co. in 1870, and has been manager of the same eTer 
since : 7C'as Republican candidate for state senator in 
1881, and presidential elector in 188 Jf ; mairied Mary 
F.lizabeth Warner of Jamestown February 6, 1800. 



G. ID. /IDlU'raV has an interesting and signifi- 
cant lineage. His father, Dauphin Murray, was 
sheriff of Steuben county, New York, and participated 
in the war of 1812 : while his grandfather fought at 
Bunker Hill and in other revolutionary battles. On 
the maternal side the line is ei|\ially distinguished. 



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III 



including (Jcneral Sedgwick, governor of Jamaic.i, 
and other notalile men. Mr. Murray himself ha.s 
had an interesting and varied (areer. When he wd.s 
only nineteen years old the California gold fever 
broke out, and the subject of our .sketch joinetl the 
westward tiile of eniigration, and in due sea.son reached 
San Francisco. It is hard at the present time to 
picture the scenes of those days. .Men flocked to 
the I'acit'ic coast from all over the country — .some 
overland by wagon and others around the Horn — 
and all acijuired, if not tangible riches, at least a 
wealth of e.xjjericnce. Young Murray, however, did 
not become a miner, but confined his attention to 
business pursuits. Finding no other o]K-ning, he 
obtained employment as a drayman, and as soon as 
he had .saved a little money bought a dray for him- 
self. A year later he engaged in the produce com- 
mission trade as a member of the firm of 
.Murrax & Foster. The firm carried on 
an extensive business, and Mr. Murray 
made two voyages to .\ustralia with 
cargoes of lumber. Such an experience 
was full of interest in those early ilays, 
before the steam vessel and the cable had 
disjielled the romance <onnected with 
that distant land. 

Mr. .Murray was (ailed Fast in 18").") 
by the death of his father, antl engaged in 
the lumlier l)usine.ss at Hin.sdale, Catta- 
raugus county, for several years. The 
commercial depression following the p;ini( 
of 1K.")7 and es|)ecially a strike on the l'>ic 
railroad i)reventing the shijmient of liiin 
ber, brought business reverses to Mr. 
.Murray, and he was forced to al)andon 
the lumber business and begin over again. 
Me obtained a position as railway mail 
clerk on the Frie road, traveling between 
Hornellsville and Dunkirk, and employeil 
all hissi)are time in the study of the law. 

In IHliO he was admitted to the bar, 
anti at once ojK'ned a law office in thi- 
town of Hinsdale, where he practiced for 
four years. .\t the end of that time he 
removed to Dunkirk, where he has won 
for him.self a i>osition at the bar and in 
jjublic life that has made him a conspii u 
ous figure in western New \'ork. 

Munit i|>:d affairs have occupied a large 
share of Mr. Murray's time and thought. 
He has served one term as mayor of Dunkirk, and has 
iK-en repeatedly nominated for high offices b\ the 
Democratic jjarty, of which he is an ardent supporter. 
He has been a delegate to several state conventions. 



and to the national convention of IMM4 that nomi- 
nated ( Jrover Cleveland for president. The district in 
which he lives is strongly Republican in |)olitics, and 
Democrati<- success there is of the nature of a forlorn 
ho|)e. .Mr. Murray has nevertheless accepted the 
nomination of his |»iirty for the state as.sembly, and 
twice for representative in congress, and has greatly 
reduced the majority of his op|ionents whenever he has 
run. In \X~0, for example, he came within three 
hunilred votes of election from the .TJd congressional 
district, which usually gives a Republican majority of 
six thousand. This fact attests Mr. Murray's |X)pn- 
larity at home, and shows the estimate placed U|)On 
him by those who know him best. 

In educational matters .Mr. .Murray has l)cen an 
im|)ortant factor in Dunkirk. As president of the 
board of education for seven years, he has contributed 




more than his fair share of work and care to a task 
that often proves thankless. The internal improve- 
ments of the city have also received his attention ; 
and he demonstrated his value to the c itv not onlv 



AfEX OF XEir )()Kk-—]VESTF.RX SKCTfO.X 



as mayor but as president of the board of water 
commissioners. He is president of the Merchants' 
National Bank and of the Hartford Axle Co., and 
vice president of the United States Radiator Co. 
He is a communicant and senior warden of St. John's 
Ejiiscopal Church. A conservative business man, an 




5. l-KF.DERICK XIXON 

earnest and upright citizen, he enjoys the esteem of 
a large circle of friends, and the confidence of his 
fellow-citizens. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Charles De 
Kalb Afurray zoas horn at Guilford, N. V., May J^, 
18S1 ; received a common-school education ; engaged in 
commerce in San Francisco, 1850-55 ; tnarried Orpha 
A. Bandfield of Hinsdale, N. V., May 20, 1860; 
7uas admitted to the bar at Buffalo in 1800 ; 7Pas 
president of the board of education of Dunkirk, N. V. , 
1875-79 and 1S8S-86 ; was first president of the 
board of 7vater commissioners, in 1871, and mayor of 
the city in 1880 ; was nominated for congress in 1870 
and 187 J, and for the assembly in 1884 >' ^'"-f /'"<"'- 
ticed hno in Dunkirk since 1804- 



S. iFre&eriCi? IttilOll affords a good example 
of what a young man can accomplish in politics, if 
he have suitable talents, energy, and ambition. Before 
Mr. Nixon was thirty years old he had made a name 
in the state legislature as a political leader. He did 
not owe his eminence to subserviency, moreover ; 
for he stands among the most prominent 
of those who insist upon uncontrolled and 
independent action on the part of political 
leaders. 

The main facts in his career outside of 
politics can be quickly narrated. He was 
born in the village of Westfield, and grad- 
uated from the village academy in 1877. 
Then he spent four years at Hamilton 
College, Clinton, N. Y., graduating in 
1881 with the degree of B. A. The next 
year he passed with the Vermont Marble 
Co., at Sutherland Falls, Vt. Then he 
returned to his native place, and has been 
engaged in business there ever since as a 
member of the firm of Nixon Brothers, 
manufacturers of monumental work and 
building stone. In connection with his 
brother he has also extensive farming and 
vineyard interests in the Chautauqua grape 
belt.' 

Like most men who have won distinc- 
tion in public life, Mr. Nixon very early 
showed a taste for political affairs. He 
also displayed an unusual talent for leader- 
ship. Thus it happened that, when little 
past his majority, he had already become 
a prominent figure in local politics. Be- 
fore he was twenty-four years old he was 
elected trustee of the village of Westfield 
— a surprising mark of confidence in the 
case of one so young. Two years later, in 
1880, he was elected supervisor, and has 
since continued to represent the town of Westfield, 
one of the richest in Chautaucjua county, upon the 
county board. During four terms, 1892-95, he was 
chairman of the board of supervisors. 

Mr. Nixon was introduced to the field of state 
politics when, in 1887, he was chosen to rejiresent 
the 1st district of Chautauqua count}- in the state as- 
sembly. He has served altogether in six legislatures. 
After his first term in 1888, his district .sent him back 
to Albany for the terms of 1889 and 1890. He was 
elected to the legislature of 1894 to represent the 
whole of Chautauqua county, the two earlier districts 
having been consolidated under the ajjportionment 
act of lf<il2. He was re-elected to the following legis- 
lature, and when tlieiountv was once more subdivided 



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li:i 



uikIlt the new constitutioi), he wa.s chosen as 
the first re|)resenlalive of the new 2tl district. Mr. 
Nixon has l)een, I'rom the l)eginning, a conspicuous 
figure on the Reijublican side of the assembly. He 
ha.s sensed on many important committees, inchid- 
ing those on ways and means, railroails, insurance, 
and general laws In the legislature of l.siMi he was 
chairman of the railroad committee, held the second 
l)lace on the committee on ways and means, and had 
membership in minor committees. He was chair- 
man of the l<epulili(an cauc us committee at the or- 
ganization of the as.sembly, and his name has been 
Ijropo.sed more than once for the s|)eakership. l'|X)n 
the floor he is one of the ablest of the Republiian 
leaders, .\mong the constructive measures for which 
he is res])onsible is the legislation under which a sys- 
tem of horticultural .schools has l)een established in 
the state. Mr. .\i.\on is best known, 
however, for his indeiJendence. He is a 
leading representative of the spirit ol 
ojiposition to one-man domination within 
his party, and as .such is one of the most 
prominent figures in the politics of western 
New York. 

Mr. Nixon was a member of the C'haii- 
tau(|ua-coiinty Rejjublican committee for 
five years, and served as chairman during 
the presidential campaigns of IHXH and 
lH!t2. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— 
Samuel Frederick A'i.u>/i was horn al 
W'fslfieU, N. K, Dee ember S, IStJi) . 
reeeiin/ his early eiluealioii at the West- 
fielil Aeailemy, ami grailuated from Ham- 
illon College in IS81 : married Myrtle 
Hunting Redfield of U'estfield May Jl, 
ISiSo : was member of the state assembly. 
ISSS-'M) and IS'.Hf-iHi .- has been su/>er- 
i'isor of the tmcn of U'estjield since 1SS6, 
and was chairman of the Chautauqua- 
county hoard of supert'isors, ISIU-O^. 



resolution calling on the state comptroller for an 
explanation of his action in issuing bonds for the 
canal loan with the stipulation that l.>oth princi|)al 
and interest should Ite (taid in gold. Unlike most 
eastern |M)liti( ians, Mr. ltal>cock is a firm Iteliever in 
silver, and he wa.^ determined to show the coiinigeof 
his convictions even though he stooiJ alone. As the 
event proved, he did stand alone. He made an elab- 
orate speech in sup|Kirt of his resolution, holding 
the attention of his <ol leagues and even eli<-iting 
considerable applau.se. No s|>eech during the ses- 
sion received more notice from the press of the state. 
But when the vote came, .Mr. Hal>cock was the only 
meml>er recorded in the affirmative. His character 
is well shown by this incident. He knew that he 
had the un|)Opular side, and that he could ex|)et t no 
siip|K)rt : but he was detennine<l to record his views. 



3crOmC .IBabCOCh, member of as- 
sembly from ihe l.'-l rhautau(|ua district, 
has taken a ])rominent |>art in the |>olitics 
of his county for more than twenty years, 
lie represented the town of Hiisti in the 
board of su|)er\^isors liack in the '"d's 
and again in the later "Hd's. He is now 
serving his second term in the a.s.sembly, 
having served ten years ago for the first time. 
Probably no other act of his offi< ial life has attracted 
so wiile attention as his introduction, at the l)egin- 
ning of the l.Sili; .session of the legislature, of a 




JliKOME HAHCOCK 

Mr. |{al«oi k has known what it is to work with his 
hands as well as with his head. He was l>orn in 
C'hautau(|ua county somewhat more than sixty years 
ago. and rountrv bovs of that dav were put to work 



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MEN OF NEW YORK— WESTERN SECTION 



about as soon as they got out of the cradle. He 
attended the common schools in his neighborhood, 
and went to work for himself as soon as he was old 
enough, as a farm hand. Rut his ambition demanded 
a more profitable return for his labor, and he soon 
betook himself to Pennsylvania, and engaged in the 




CHARLliS A. BALI. 

lumber and oil business on the Allegheny river. 
This was his occupation for ten years. Having be- 
come a man of family, he felt the need of a business 
that would be more settled, and would take him away 
from home less, and he accordingly bought a farm in 
Sugar (".rove, Warren county, I'enn. 'I'his was his 
home, and a farmer's life his calling, for the next 
eight years. While at Sugar Grove he was president 
of the school board for four years, and also served 
for two years as jjresident of the Union Agri< iiltural 
Society. He wa-s at heart a New Yorker all this 
time, notwithstanding his alwence from the state of 
almost a (|uarter century, and he availed himself of 
a good opportunity to sell his farm and return to 
his native town of Husti. Here he devoted himself 



successively to the hotel business, to mercantile 
affairs, and to farming ; and here his political career 
really began. As his acquaintanceship in Chautauqua 
county extended, he naturally became more and 
more interested in Jamestown and its people ; and 
he finally established himself there in 18cS!). He is 
now recognized as one of the most prom- 
inent citizens of the place, as is shown 
by the fact that he was elected an alder- 
man of Jamestown in the spring of 1S95. 
PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— 
Jerome Babcock was born at Busti, N. Y. , 
July 21, 1835 ; spent his early manhood 
in Pennsylvania, in the lumber and oil 
business and in farming : married Celia O. 
Smith of Sugar Grove, Penn., January 1, 
1863 ; was supervisor from Busti, 1873-75 
and 1887-88 ; rvas elected a member of 
the assembly in 1885 and in 1895 : was 
elected alderman of Jamestowti, N. Y.,in 
March, 1895 ; has been in htisiness in 
Jamestown since 1889. 



Cbai'lCS a. Ball has been a very 
influential man in state politics for a 
number of years. Those who have an 
intimate knowledge of the inside work- 
ings of political affairs well appreciate 
this, though Mr. Ball is not among the 
men whose names are most fretpientl)' 
heard in connection with such matters. 
This is partly because he is a modest 
man, preferring to kee]) his personality in 
the background and let only his work 
show. He has a wide acquaintance with 
men and an accurate knowledge of affairs 
in both the state and the nation, and he 
has come to be regarded as an indis- 
pensable assistant about headijuarters in 
both state and presidential campaigns. 

It was Senator Fassett who discovered the abilities 
of Mr. Ball, and made him known to the ]jolitical 
managers of the state. When Mr. Fa.ssett first went 
to the senate, Mr. Ball held a committee clerkship 
in the legislature. Mr. Fassett made him his private 
.secretary. As tlie jjarty leader in the senate, Mr. 
Fassett naturally had clo.se relations with politicians 
in all parts of the state. He found in .Mr. Ball not 
merely a competent clerical employee, but a trust- 
worthy antl reliable friend as well. His services 
were so valuable that when Mr. F"as.sett became secre- 
tary of the Republican national committee, in 1888, 
he chose Mr. Ball as his assistant. Thus the latter 
obtained op|)ortunilies for extending his acquaintance 



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II.' 



and his sphere of usefulness, which he improved so 
well that in the next national canipaij^n he was 
again (alleii uiion to serve as ;issistant secretary, 
though the secretary this time was not his friend 
Mr. l-'assett, l)ut l-ouis E. McC'omas of Maryland. 
Mr. Hall has retained, meanwhile, his connection 
with the slate .senate. He was inde.\ < lerk for two 
years, anil during the greater part of the last six years 
he has been a.ssistant clerk under John S. Kenyon. 
He has never accepted a nomination for an elective 
oftiie, though he has twice l)een the unanimous choice 
of the Allegany-county delegates for state .senator. 

Mr. Hall wa.s horn on a farm in Allegany county 
ahout forty-six years ago. He attendeil the country 
and village schools, the .MmontI .\cadeniy, anil the 
Dickinson .Seminary at Williamsport, Henn. He is 
a self-made man, having educated him.self 
and sup|)orted him.self since his thirteenth 
year. He intended to go to Heidelberg, 
(iermany, to complete his education : hut 
his father's death, whii h occurred when 
Mr. I-Jall was within six weeks of gradu- 
ation at Dickinson Seminary with the 
degree of .V. H. , caused a change in this 
arrangement. Mr. Hall ahandoned his 
plans for completing his education, and 
took charge of his father's business, which 
was that of a carriage manufacturer at 
W'ellsville, N. V. .\fter some years he 
gave up this occupation, and became in- 
terested in oil production. He now has 
im|)ortant holdings in the Allegany field. 

.Mr. liall is a broad-minded, jjublic- 
s|)irited < iti/en. He has interested him- 
self es|jecially in the matter of preserving 
the fi.sh, game, and forests of the state, 
and has rendered im|>ortant .service in 
this work. 

/•EliSOXAL CJ/RO\OLOi; ) • — 
Charles Alley Ball loas horn al Almoiul, 
Allet^aiiy amnty, N. Y., Deceniher If), 
tS'iO : ?iuis eitiicaled iti Almond Atadfiny 
and in Dickinson Si-niinarv, Williams- 
f^>rl, Penn. : married Clara M. Pooler of 
W'ellr.'ille, N. K, Octohn- /, ISIS; 7fas 
index clerk of the senate, ISSSSO, and 
assistant clerk, 1S!K)-!)1 and I.S.'K',-.'m; : 
7C'as assistant secretary of the Kef<iit>lican 
national committee in 18KS and Ift'-'K' : 
has lired at il'ells-i'ille. A'. )'., since I til I. 

Jfrai\k %. 36aitlCtt, president of the Kx- 
change National Hank of ( )lean, comes of sturdy 
Knglish sto< k, his grandfather having removed to 



this country and settled at Helfast, Allegany county, 
when the locality was almost an unbroken wilderness. 
Mr. Hartlett's early education was limited to the 
public .schools of his native village, supplemented by a 
course at Friendship Academy. His business <arecr 
began at the age of twenty -one, when he liecame 
a (lerk in the I'irst National Hank of (ulta, N. N'. 
Here his efticiency early won the confidence and 
esteem of his employers, and soon o|)ened to him a 
broader business field. Within a year he eniereil 
the I'Achange National Hiink of ( )lean, where his 
ability and untiring energy have gained him rapid 
promotion. .-Vttaining successively the jjositions of 
bookkeeper, teller, cashier, and president, he 
thoroughly mastered the duties and details of each 
in turn. Mr. Hartlett iK)s.ses.ses a combination of 




/A- (\A- / II llfTI HTT 

ijualities whi( h would insure sue cess in any business 
calling he might seek, but whi< h .seem |>e< iiliarly 
fitted for the profession of his choice. To his good 
business judgment, his keen jien eption of men and 



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events, his untiring industry and devotion to the 
interests in his charge, is due, more than to anything 
else, the uninterrupted success and increasing pros- 
perity of the F^xchange National Bank of Olean. 
Mr. Bartlett is the largest stockholder in the insti- 
tution. 




WILLIAM BROADHEAD 

These qualities have also brought their due reward 
in other enterprises in which he has become inter- 
ested. Among these may be mentioned the Eastern 
Oil Co. of Buffalo, of which he is a director and 
the troa-surer. 

Mr. Bartlett has always been interested in public 
affairs and especially such projects and enterprises 
as tended to enhance the prosperity and well-being 
of his locality. He was largely instrumental in 
the organization of the local Board of Trade, 
whose efforts have secured the location in Olean of 
many important manufacturing industries. He has 
ever been zealous in the support of every ])roject for 
the imjjrovement of his city in a material, moral, or 
aesthetic wav. 



Socially Mr. Bartlett is noted for his good-fellow- 
ship and uniform courtesy ; and he and his charming 
wife dispense hospitalit\ and charity with a generous 
hand. 

Mr. Bartlett is affiliated with the Odd Fellows and 
the Masons, being a member of St. John's Com- 
mandery, K. T., of Olean, and Ismailia 
Temple of Buffalo. He attends the Pres- 
byterian church. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL OGY— 
Frank Le Verne Bartlett was born at 
Belfast, Allegany county, N. Y. , December 
25, 1858 ; entered the banking business 
in 1879; moved to Olean, N. V., in 
1880; became cashier of the Exchange 
National Bank, Olean, in 1885 ; married 
Fannie E. England of Tidioute, Penn., 
July 15, 1886 ; has been president of the 
Exchange National Bank, Olean, since 
January 1, 1895. 



llUilliam JSroa&beaS, the founder 

of the worsted manufacturing industry in 
Jamestown, X. Y., is a Yorkshireman by 
birth. .\t the age of ten he was ap- 
prenticed to learn the weaver's trade in 
his native town of Thornton. Before 
and during his apprenticeship he attended 
the common and evening schools at 
Thornton, but his education has been 
mainly that of the factory and of practical 
business life. On completing his appren- 
ticeship at the loom he went to work in 
his father's blacksmith shop, where he 
remained until he became of age. 

He wa.s twenty-four years old when he 
emigrated to the United States, going to 
Busti, Chautauqua county, N. Y., where 
his uncle, the Rev. John Broadhead, was 
then living. He secured work in the shop of Safford 
Eddy at Jamestown, and within two years had 
married. About two years after his marriage he 
formed a partnership with his father-in-law, Adam 
B. Cobb, for the manufacture of .scythe snaths and 
grain cradles. The business gradually extended to in- 
clude other farm implements, and when it was divided, 
after ten years, Mr. Broadhead continued alone the 
manufacture of axes, pitchforks, and edge tools. 

As his capital accumulated, and the need of pro- 
viding business for his sons developed, Mr. Broad- 
head opened a merchant-tailoring establishment, 
taking his eldest son, and later a younger son, into 
partnership. This busine.ss was continued for 
fourteen years. 



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Mr. Broadhead haii reached his fifty-third year 
before he revisited his old home in I'inniand. 'I'he 
trip marked an epoch, not only in his own Imsiness 
career, hut also in the development of Jamestown. 
The dimensions to which worsted manufacturing in 
Yorkshire had grown since he learned the weaver's 
trade on a hand loom, impresse<l him with the idea 
that the business might profitably be undertaken in 
Jamestown. For the purpose of carrying out this 
idea he formed a pariiK-rshii> with Joseph Turner of 
Kngland and William Hall of Jamestown. The 
necessary machinery was im|)orted, a factory was 
built, and by January 1, 1H74, the firm was making 
worsted dress gooiis. The enterprise was successful 
Irom the start, but owing to some dis;igreements Mr. 
Broadheail aiul .Mr. Hall were com|icllcil to dissohc 
|iartnership. Mr. Broadhead withdrew, 
and in 1H7.T began the erection of a new 
mill, in which his sons became jjarincr^. 
Three years after it was finished, the 
merchant-tailoring business was sold, and 
the firm gave its whole attention to worsted 
manufacture. .\ .se< ond mill, and after- 
ward a third and fourth, bei ame necessary 
to accommodate the growing business. 
The present large factory at Jamestown 
employs some seven hundred hands. 
Though he has jas-sed his seventy-seventh 
year, .Mr. Broadhead continues the active 
su|jerintendence of his ])roi)erty. 

Mr. Broadhead h;us many investments 
liesides his manufacturing jilant. He has 
built and now owns no fewer than twenty - 
five business places on Main street in 
Jamestown. His firm built, and arc now 
oix;rating, the Jamestown electric street 
railroad. He has been a director of the 
First National Bank of Jamestown for 
eighteen years, -w,,] vln- presiiient for 
ten years. 

His extensi\c manui.u luring interests 
have naturally made him an ardent pro- 
tectionist and a Republican, but he has 
never held public office. In his native 
town he belonged to the Wesleyan Meth- 
odist church, and on his removal to 
Jamestown he joinetl the .Methodist Kpis- 
cojxil church, a-s most like the Wesleyan. 
He was a strong alnjlitionist, however, 
and when his church endorseil slavery, 
l)efore the war, he left it and formed a \\'esle\an 
society. This organization was given up some year.N 
later, and Mr Broadhead then became a mcmlier of 
the First Congregational Church, He is a man of 



exemplary habits, and is es|)ecially proud of the 
fact that never in his life has he u.sed toliacco or 
lii|uor. 

PERSONAL CIIROXOLOGY— miliam 
BroiiiilifatI was born at Thornton, Yorkshire, /;>(,'- 
lanii, Fehruary 11, ISl!) ; nnii^ratrii to Ihf Unitfii 
Slates in January, ISJ^.i ; marrieJ Luey Cohh of James- 
tim<n, X. v., October V.K IS^-'j ; was a manufacturer 
of edge tools in Jamesttnon, 181, 1-61 ; cam/ucteit a 
merchant-taihrin)^ establishment in Jamestim-n, ISHi- 
16': built, with others, the Jamestim-n Worsted Mills 
in 181-i ; built worsted mills himself in Jamestoum in 
ISIU, and has conducted the same since. 



SaSOU S>. Case, one of Franklinville's most 
prominent ami publii s|(irited cili/cns, has l)een all 




jtsnx n. C.1SH 

his life a resident of Cattaraugus county. Born in 
the town of Lyndon, and educated in the ilistrict 
schools of that town and in Kushford .Academy, he 
settled in Franklinville at the age of twenty-six. 



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immediately after his marriage, and has made that 
town his home ever since. 

His first knowledge of business was gained in aiding 
his father, an extensive dealer in farm produce, when 
but sixteen ) ears of age. For two years he traveled 
about the country, buying butter, cheese, eggs, wool, 
etc., and at eighteen a.ssumed charge of his father's 
large dairy farm. Four years later he was engaged 
as superintendent of an oil company near Pleasant- 
ville, Penn., which he managed for three years to the 
entire satisfaction of the company ; and at the ex- 
piration of that time he succeeded in disposing of 
the pro pert}- most advantageously. 

In December, 1.S72, Mr. Case was asked to take 
the management of a private bank then organizing in 
Franklinville. He undertook the work, and soon 
made it evident that he had found his true vocation. 
When, in 1877, this private enterprise was succeeded 
by the First National Bank of Franklinville, the second 
institution of its kind in Cattaraugus county, Mr. 
Case became its cashier and active manager ; and he 
has held that responsible position until the present 
time. He has devoted to the work keen business 
foresight and a special aptitude for financial affairs ; 
and the remarkable success of the institution ever 
since its organization is due to his indefatigable 
efforts more than to any other one cause. This bank 
easily holds the first jjlace among similar institutions 
in its vicinity, and is to-day one of the solid financial 
establishments of western New York. When the 
Bank of FUicottville was started, a \ear after the 
First National Bank of Franklinville, Mr. Case be- 
came one of its directors, and he has held the posi- 
tion ever since. In addition to this, he has been 
president of the C'itizens' Bank of .\rcade from its 
organization in 1888; and he makes frecjuent visits 
there, in order to maintain an active supervision of 
all the details of its management. It will thus be 
seen that Mr. Case is a prominent figure in lianking 
circles in the neighborhood in which he resides, and 
it is not suqjrising to learn that he is a large owner 
of bank stock in that vicinity. He is also a director 
of the Peojjle's State Bank of Mazo Manie, Wis. 

.•\lthough Mr. ("ase has devoted his best energies 
to banking, he has i)een interested in the production 
of oil ever since his early experience as superintendent 
of the comjiany in Pennsylvania ; and more recently 
he has Iwen instrumental in forming the Manufactur- 
ers' Cas Co. of Bradford, Penn., of which he is a 
director. In connection with W. H. Odell and A. K. 
Darrow he has operated some Pennsylvania oil ]jrop- 
erty very successfiiUy. He was influential in forming 
the canning comjjany of I'Vanklinville, and is a 
director of the new Conklin Wagon Co. at Olcan. 



Franklinville possesses one of the most beautiful 
cemeteries in western New York, and this is due 
largely to Mr. Case's efforts — first, in promoting 
the organization of the Cemetery .Association in 
1878, and ever since in the active interest he has 
taken in its management, as trustee and treasurer. 

Mr. Case has been for many years a prominent 
member of the Free and .\ccei)ted Masons. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Jason D. 
Case was born at Lxndon, N. V., October S, 18^7 ; 
7C'as educated in the district schools and in Rushford 
{N. y. ) Academy ; began business in 1863 as assist- 
ant to his father, an extensive produce dealer : accepted 
a position as superintendent of an oil company in Penn- 
sylvania, in 1860; became manager of a private bank 
in Franklinville, N. V. , in 1873 ; married Helen C. 
Morgan of Cuba, N. Y., January 27, 1873 ; has been 
cashier and manager of the First National Bank of 
Franklinville since 1877, and president of the Citisens' 
Bank of Arcade, N Y., since 1883. 



JOSCpbUS lb. Clarl? presents a career interest- 
ing in various ways. An active business man in 
Jamestown, N. Y., for fifty-five years, the war-time 
president of the board of trustees of the village, a 
memlier of the board of education for twenty-one 
consecutive years, and a trustee of the First Baptist 
Church for forty-four years — such a man must have 
led a life of great usefulness, and must have com- 
manded the respect and confidence of his towns- 
peo]jle in an unusual degree. 

Mr. Clark is a representative of that sturdy New 
P^ngland stock from which .so much of the best blood 
of western New York has come. He was born in 
Worcester county, Ma.ss., in President Monroe's first 
term. He attended the public schools of his native 
village, and was afterwards sent to school at Salem, 
Mass., and at Winchester, N. H., thus obtaining a 
good education in the common branches of learning. 
His studies were interrupted, however, at an early age, 
when he went West, as New Englanders of that time 
regarded western New York. He arrived in Chautau- 
i|ua county in 1880, and obtained a little more 
schooling before taking u]) the serious business of life. 

Mr. Clark settled in Jamestown in 1885, and has 
lived there since with the exception of about two 
years in his early manhood, which were spent in New 
Orleans, Cincinnati, and Pittsburg. \\'hcn only 
twenty-two years old, he engaged in the foundry and 
machine-shop business in Jamestown. He had two 
])artners at first, and there were frei|uent changes in 
the firm during its early years; but he retained his 
interest throughout, and since 1X57 he has conducted 
the business alone. 



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ll<.i 



Mr. Clark was early recognized as a public-spirited 
citizen who had the interests of his town at heart. 
Two years before the war his townsjieople elected 
him a member of the board of trustees — Jamestown 
was a village then — and he held this office continu- 
ously for ten years. Throughout the war he ser\'ed 
as president of the board. The duties of 
the [josition at such a crisis were far more 
important than in the ordinary times of 
peace. Jamestown, as one of the princi- 
\ya.\ places in Chautauijua county, was 
naturally a center for enlistment and for 
the collection of the heavy ta.xes made 
necessary by the war. Moreover, when 
the nation w;is calling for so great siuri- 
fices, unusual |)rudencc and conservatism 
were necessary in the management of local 
affairs. Jamestown justly looks u]X)n Mr. 
t'lark as one of the men who laid the 
foundations for the present pros]>erity of 
the city. 

Mr. Clark takes a characteristic New 
Kngland interest in the welfare of the 
|)ublic schools. In iJSTlt he was elected 
a member of the boanl of etluiation, and 
served in this office for twenty-one con- 
secutive years : for fifteen years he was 
president of the board. 

I'rom early life he has been an attend- 
ant of the Baptist church. He was 
chosen a trustee of the First Baptist 
t"hurch of Jamestown in 1K52, and still 
holds that position. He is also a mem- 
l>er of the Chatitauijua Comity Historital 
Society, and is one of its executive com 
mittee. 

PERSONAL CIIROXOLOGY— 
J(>sf/>fiiis Jf. Clitrk 7i'its horn at Petfrshaw, 
Mass., Dfiemher 1, ISUl ; H'as n/i/ra/n/ 
in tht f'uHif sclutols : m<n<ed to loestern 
XfW ) 'or/! in IS-M ; marrieJ Jane E. A/ar.Ji oj 
Panama, X. Y., July hi, IS'tl ; 7i>a.\- trustee of 
/aniestirjcn, iX. )'., lfi.',H-t;!t, ant/ mem/'er of t/ie 

/wan/ of education, WiO-HI : li^n inn./n.f,-./ a fninilrv 

in Jamestrnvn since ISJ^l. 

• • » 

Hiia 5tOUC COUCb 'i-ts devoted his life to the 
study, teaching, and practice of medicine. He 
ranks among the foremost expounders and defenders 
of homeo|x-ithy in the Cnit?d States. In medical 
conventions, in the press, and l)eff>re legislative 
committees, he has vigorously u]>held the tenets of 
the " new .school," and has demanded for its practi- 
tioners, .igainst fiene opposition, the public rights 



and opportunities accorded to the "old school." 
The warfare between aIIo|)nthy and homeojiathv has 
lost much of the intensity that < harac terized it when 
the renowned Hahnemann first enunciated his famous 
principles of medicine. The new school has dem- 
onstrated its right and its |xjwer to exist, and has 




/nsFPurs n 1 1 \kk 

oblnincd a rci<igni/c<i >t,in(liii^ ntlurc tlic law. it 
may lie said without exaggeration that this condition 
of things has l)een brought about by Dr. ('on<h .is 
much as by any one man. His voluminous writings 
on this burning ijuestion in medical s«.ience have 
given him fame and reputation wherever the conlro- 
versv between the old m hool and the new h.is lieen 
<arried on. In addiliun to his (ontrtiversial works 
he has written numerous Injoks and jiamphlets on the 
dot trines and methods of homeo|>athy, Itesidw 
occasional |)a|)ers and artii Ics on subjet Is connected 
with the education and <|uallfi( ations of physicians. 
I)r. Couch has an ancestry noted in the fields of 
medicine and education, and he inherite<l in an 



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unusual degree those qualities of mind that mark the 
patient investigator and man of science. After an 
academic and a classical training in the Westfield 
Academy and the Chamberlain Institute, he took up 
the study of medicine under the supervision of two 
eminent physicians of Vermont. He attended 




ASA STOXF. COUCH 

courses of study at both allo])athic and homeopathic 
institutions, and graduated from the Homeo|)athic 
Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1X5"). He 
immediately entered upon the practice of his profes- 
sion in association with Professor (iardner of Phila- 
delphia. In the same year his a/»ia wizAvajjpointed 
him demonstrator of anatomy and assistant surgeon. 
VV'ith this rich experience added to his theoretical 
studies, the young doctor concluded to devote his 
entire time to practice. He returned to his native 
county in New York, and opened an office in I-'re- 
donia, where he ha.s practiced for forty years. The 
esteem in which he is held in his profession and in 
the community in whi( li he lives, is l)est attested by 



the positions of trust and honor to which he has 
frequently been summoned. He was for .several 
years vice president of the Homeopathic Medical 
Society of the State of New York, and for one year 
its president. He was one of the founders of the 
Chautauqua County Homeopathic Medical Society 
and of the Homeopathic Society of West- 
ern New York. 

In 1877 he was appointed professor of 
special pathology and diagnosis in the 
Hahnemann College and Hospital in 
Chicago, where his lectures were noted 
for depth of thought, broad knowledge, 
and painstaking research. His profes- 
sional brethren showed their estimation of 
his ability by recommending him to the 
regents of the University of the State of 
New York for the honorary degree of 
Doctor of Medicine, which was promjjtly 
conferred upon him, in 1879 ; and in 
1891 the Homeopathic Society of the 
state nominated him for the state board of 
homeopathic medical examiners, to which 
he was duly elected by the state regents. 
Dr. Couch was chosen president at the 
first meeting of the board, and was 
appointed examiner in pathology and 

\ diagnosis. 

In 1894 by Governor Flower, and 
again in 1(S95 by Governor Morton, Dr. 
Couch was commissioned one of the man- 
agers of the Collins Farm Homeojjathic 
Hospital for the In.sane. He is very much 
interested in the work of this institution, 
and means to make it, so far as he can, 
second to no similar establishment in the 
world in perfection of detail for hospital 
purposes. 

As a popular lecturer Dr. Couch enjoys 
a wide reputation, pre.senting complicated 
stibjecrts in a simple, intelligible way. He has 
lectured before the Buffalo Society of Natural 
Scienc^es, and he delivered the opening address before 
the World's International Homeopathic Congress 
held at Atlantic City in 1891. Dr. Couch's whole 
life has been one of unceasing activity in the prac- 
tical and theoretical branches of his profession ; and 
he is to-day, in consequence, justly regarded as a 
complete, all-roimd ph)sician and scientific man. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Axa Stone 
Couch was bom at IVestfteld, N. Y., October 22, 
18-iS ; was educated at Westfield Acadetiiy and 
Chamberlain Institute ; ^^raduated in medicine from 
the Homeopathic Medical College, Philadelphia, in 



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i-ji 



lS'>o : marrieil .\ far/ha L. Shenmui of Weslfield 
April J, tS')7, an J Mrs. ElUn S. Karrftl of Dun- 
kirk, N. Y., February 0, 187S ; was apfvinteJ a 
memher of the slate boarti of homeopathic meiiiial 
examiners in 18!>1 ; has prae fieri/ metlicine in Pre- 
i/onia, N. Y., since ISod. 

HlLKTt G. !?0\V of Randolph, N. V., was l)orh 
of i'liritan luircnts at I'lainficKI, Cheshire county, 
N. H., August U;, l«0.s. He was the eighth of the 
ten children of Captain Solomon and Phoel)e Dow, 
who removed from llartland. X'erniont, to Cienesee 
coimty in 1H1(». 

All)ert Dciw's father died in I'emliroke, N. V., in 
lfS"Jli, and soon after Mr. Dow, in his fifteenth year, 
liegan the Iwttle of life on his own account, and 
commenceii a business lareer that has continued 
uninterriii)tedly for over seventy years. 
He lived a year in Hatavia, where he 
learned the shoemaker's trade ; next went 
to Panama for a short time ; and then 
settled in Silver Creek, Chautauipia 
county, in 1.H27, which continued to l>e 
his home for nearly twenty years. Here 
he conducted a shoe business until Jan 
uary, 1K4(1, when he entered the han^ 
ware business, ha\ing Ceorge I >. I'arnhani 
for a cojxirtner. This partnershij) con 
tinned about a year, and on its dis.solution 
Mr. Dow opened a hardware store at Sin- 
clairville. In the fall of IM4"J he resumed 
the business at Silver Creek in jiartner- 
ship with Horatio N. Karnham, and this 
continued until his removal to Randolph 
in 1H4."). In 1S4:! he had ojn'iied a 
dry -goods store at Randolph, his nephew, 
James Nutting, being associated with 
him. This store they conducted as co- 
partners until IK.ll. Upon his removal 
to Randolph he 0|)ened there a hardware 
.store that he continued imtil iHli.'i: his 
son Warren wius his jiartner during the 
last three years. 

In ixiid he established a private bank 
in Randolph, which was the first institu- 
tion of the kind in that section ; and 
from that time he has been prominently 
identified with the banking interests of 
Cattaraugus county. Krom |.H7.")to |H,s((, 
the last five years of Mr. Dow's kinking 
in Randolph, his son, Charles M. Dow, now of 
Jamestown, N. Y., was an active jwrtner. In l^^Xl 
Mr. Dow organized the Salamanca National R.ink at 
Salamanca. He was the |)rinc ipiil stoc kholder and 



president of the in.stitution until IMJIO, when he re- 
signed the presidency, but continued to Ik* a director. 

Since then he his not l>een actively engaged in 
business, but h;is devoted himself to the c are of his 
investments and the eiijc>\meiit of a well-earned rest. 

All through his extended busines-s career he has 
found it a pleitsure and deemeil it a duty to interest 
himself in public affairs, and he has discharged faith- 
fully and well the duties nf various public offices. 
He was a Democ rat up to the time of the Civil War. 
Like so many others he changed his [arty affiliations 
at the outbreak of the war, and since l«(il he has 
l)een a Republican and an active and unswerving 
nieinl)er of that |>arly. He was early elec ted to local 
offices in Silver I'reek, and ac ted as justice cjf the 
|)eace for eight years in Randolph. He served as 
su|>ervisor of that town for ten vear>. In 1X(i."! and 




ALBERT a. DOlf 



l«(i4 he .served as a memlier of the legislature from 
the 2d district of Cattaraugtis county, and in 1M72 
he was elec ted state senator, repri-senting what w,is 
then the .""Jd senatorial district. In all these |)ositions 



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he displayed the good sense and faithful devotion to 
duty that characterized him in private affairs. 

Mr. Dow has always been actively interested in 
religious work and in educational movements. When 
a young man he united with the Presbyterian church 
in Silver Creek, and upon his removal to Randolph 




GR.IXT J) IKE 

he joined the Congregational church of that village, 
of which he has ever since been a member, and in 
which he has often served in official capacities. 

In liH.lO he was active in the organization of the 
Randolph Academy (now Chamberlain Institute), 
which has been a power in the intellectual and moral 
development of western New York ever since its 
foundation. He was one of the original trustees of 
this school, and has held that office unintcrru])tedly 
up to the pre.sent time. 

Mr. Dow's strong ]jersonality, sound judgment, 
purity of character, honesty of jjurpose, and con- 
scientiousness in the discharge of duty, has won 
the respect and admiration of a large circle of 



accjuaintances and the frieniishi]i of all cla.s.ses in the 
community in which he lives. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Alhcrl Gal- 
latin Dow was born at Plainfield, iV. //. , Aiig^ust Hi, 
1808 ; carried on a shoe business in Silver Creek, 
N. Y. , 1827-40, and a /lardware business, I84O-40 : 
man-led Freelove Mason of Batavia, 
N. Y, October 4, 1829, and Lydia A. 
Mason April 23, 1850 ; engaged in the 
hardivare business in Randolph, N. Y., 
184i>-(i-i ; established a private bank in 
Randolph in 1800 : Teas member of as- 
sembly, 18G-3—6'4, and state senator in 
1873 : Idas president of the Salamanca 
{N. Y.) National Bank, 1881-90. 



Grant H>Uhe is one of the most 
prominent figures among the younger 
generation in his native town of Wells- 
\ille, N. Y. So large a majority of our 
promising }'oung men follow Horace 
Greeley's advice and " go West," or turn 
their backs on the country to seek the 
more extended field of activity offered 
by some large city, that it is a pleasure 
to read the story of a life like Mr. Duke's. 
It is a fortunate thing for the prosperity 
of the nation that there are cases, like 
this one, where young men of ability and 
enterprise are content to devote their 
talents to the development of the smaller 
towns. 

After attending the common schools of 

Wellsville, Mr. Duke s])ent two years at 

the Pennsylvania Military Academy at 

Chester, Penn., and one year at Alfred 

University, and finally took a course at 

a business college in Rochester. He was 

thus well equipped as regards both general 

culture and practical commercial training 

when he began the business of lumbering and oil 

I)roducing with his father. The name of Duke is well 

known in southwestern New York and northwestern 

Pennsylvania, for in that region William Duke, the 

father of our subject, and four of his brothers, had 

been engaged all their lives in these indu.stries. The 

town of Duke Center, Penn., was named for them, and 

practically owned and controlled 1>\ them for many 

years. At |jresenl Mr. Duke and his two brothers 

are a,ssociated with their father, and their interests 

throughout Allegany county are varied and e.xtensiv*. 

Mr. Duke is an ardent Republican, and is devoted 

heart and soul to the interests of his party. He is 

full of enthusiasm for all plans looking toward the 



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Mr. |)ii.senl)iiry's father, in |jartncr><hi|i with 
William I". WhccliT, carried on for many years a 
country store in lonnection with a large linnltcr 
business, and younj^ Dusenliury, on attaining his nia 
jority, l)eiamc proprietor of this store. Two years 
later, on the death of his father, Mr. Dusenliury, to- 
gether with his lirothers, succeeded to a |>artnership 
in the firm, whit h then l»e<'ame known as \Vm. !■'. 
Wheeler \' I'o. I.;iter on, the firm addcil the manu- 
facture of leather to its previous undertakings, and 
finally the |>rodiiction of oil. In these successixe 
developments Mr. L>u.senlHiry has i ontrilmted a large 
share of enterjirise and executive aliility. 

The (|ualitie> that make a man successful in manu- 
facturing pursuits or in general Imsiness are likewise 
of great value to a liank official, and it is not strange 
that Mr. Dusenlniry was a prime mover in the estab- 



im|)rovement of the village uf Wellsville and the 
county of .Mlegany. When the .Mlegany Coiintv 
Firemen's .■\s.sociation was organizeil he was made 
the first president : and he is |)resi<lent of the Wells- 
ville ho.se com|any, whi( h is named in his honor. 
His popularity in his nati\e place was abundantly 
|jroved by his election, in 1SS)4, as president of the 
village, although his opponent was deemetl one of 
the strongest men in the town. He was re-elected 
in 1 ><}("), anti his fellow-townsmen have every rea.son 
to be satisfied with his successful administration of 
the affairs of the village ; for he has displayed great 
e.\ecutive ability, and has made one of the best 
presidents the village ever had. 

Mr. Duke has traveled e.vtensively in the L'nited 
States, and has thus e.xpanded his sym|jathies and 
interests, and gained that knowledge of men and 
affairs which is so tlesirable, and which 
the man who has lived all his ilays in a 
small community sometimes fails to ai 
<|uire. His genial good-fellowship is 
amply evidenced by the number of clubs 
and fraternal organizations to which he 
belongs. He is a member of the Horn- 
ellsville L'lub, the Acacia Club of Buffalo, 
the (lene.see Club of Wellsville, DeMolay 
Commandery, No. '2'2, of Hornellsville, 
the Damascus Temple of Ro< hcster, the 
Knights of St. John and Malta, and other 
organizations. He is an Kpiscopalian. 

/'ERSOXAL CHRONOLOG \ — 
Grant Diikf was horn itt W'flhvillf, 
N. Y. , June 1, ISH-i ; 7oas i-Jluutteii at 
thf Pennsylvania Military Academy anJ 
at Alfred I'niversity : married Anna Ji. 
Taylor of Wellsrille March 21,, IHSJ, : 
ii'as />resident of the villat^e of J I 'ells"'ille, 
lS9Ji-.'i,'> ; has been enj^ai^ed in hiisiness 
in ll'ellsi-ille and Allegany county, as 
lumber merchant and oil producer, since 
ISS.I. 



30bn £. IDlU^CUlnirV?hasexiK-nded 
the elforls ol a vigorous and varied busi- 
ness life ujjon interests centere<l in Port- 
ville, N. Y., where he was born and has 
always resided. He had only the edu- 
cation afforded by district schools and a 
course at Hinghamton Academy, but he 
was endowed w ith a generous eijiiipment 

of common sense and sagacity. He has recognized lishment of the Kir>it National llank of Olean, twenty- 
each op|)ortunity that came to him, and has made odd years ago, and that he has lK.x*n actively conneitetl 
the most of it, until he now controls extensive and with the institution ever since. l'|>on the death of 
varied concerns. his father's old jiartner, William V. Wheeler, in 




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1<S9.'>, iMr. Dusenlmry succeeded him as president of 
the institution. 

Mr. Dusenbury has no liking for the scramble in 
which tho.se desirous of the emoluments of office too 
often engage ; but he has been willing to .serve the 
public when called upon, as is proved by his ten 




.\f/r.TOX M. FEWER 

years' incumbency of the office of town supervisor. 
He has also remained aloof, as a rule, from all so- 
cieties or fellowships, which many men fintl necessary 
to satisfy the social instincts of their nature. He is, 
however, an attendant of the Presbyterian church. 

One diversion in which Mr. Dusenbury fmds re- 
laxation from the perplexities of a complicated 
business is that of horse raising and training. 
With a particular liking for the fine ])oints of well-bred 
horse flesh, he has given some attention to horse 
breeding a.s an avocation, and now owns an estab- 
lishment of this kind. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— John E. 
Dusenbury 7Sjas born at Porlvillc, N. V., June 
10, 1830 ; was educated in conunon schools anil al 



Binghamton {^N. Y. ) Academy ; commenced business 
as a country merchant in Portville in 1858 ; engaged in 
lumbering in the same place in 1860, and later in the 
manufacture of leather and in the oil business ; married 
H attic A. Foster of Chili, N. Y., in February, 1801, 
and Dellc V. Mather of Sout/naick, Mass. , in July, 

1869 ; established, with others, the First 
, National Bank of Olcan, N. Y., in 1872, 

and has been president of the satne since 

1893. 



/lOiltOU /ID. jfeimer i^ a farmer's 
boy who has risen to success in medicine, 
Inisiness, and politics. He was born at 
South Stockton, Chautauqua county, and 
until he was eighteen years old divided his 
time between farming and such schooling 
as he could get in the district schools. 
Then he set himself in earnest to obtain an 
education. He went to Ellington Acad- 
emy at Ellington, N. Y., and then to 
.\llegheny College at Meadville, I'enn. 
Finally he entered the Eclectic Medical 
Institute at Cincinnati, and graduated 
therefrom in 1860, at the age of twenty - 
three, with the degreeof M. D. Through- 
out his school career he paid his way by 
teaching. 

For about a year after graduation Dr. 
Fenner practiced medicine in Michigan, 
first in Goodrich and then in Flint. 
Then he decided to enter the army. He 
enlisted, in 1861, iu the .Sth Michigan 
volunteer infantry, served as hospital 
stewartl, and v\as afterward promoted suc- 
cessively to the rank of 'Id and 1st lieu- 
tenant. In 1803 he was appointed assist- 
ant surgeon in the United States navy. 
Finally he retired from the service, in 
1864, to devote himself to private practice, and re- 
turned for this purpose to his native county, settling 
at Jamestown. There he remained until 1869, when 
he moved to Fredonia, N. Y., which has since been 
his home. He conducted a general practice until 
1872, and still carries on an office ])ractice. In 1872 
he began the manufacture of proprietary medicines, 
in which he has met with great success. 

Dr. Fenner has held various official positions in 
the line of his profession. He was consulting sur- 
geon to the Chautauqua County Insane Asylum from 
1866 to 1869. During the same years he was 
])hysii:ian to the poor for Jamestown, and from 1869 
to 1872 he held a similar office in Fredonia. He 
was United States examining surgeon from liS70 to 



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1«72, and in isTl and ls7"J was president ol' the 
Kclectic Medical Sex iety of the State of New York. 

This summary of Dr. Kenner's professional career 
would alone show him to be a busy man ; but he 
has fotmd lime to do many other thint;s. Me is sec- 
retary and treasurer of the Dunkirk & Freilonia 
Railroad Co., and has been its manager since 1H«U. 
The company maintains an electric street-railroad 
between l-'redonia antl the neighboring city of Dun- 
kirk, and carries on incidentally the business of 
commercial electric lighting and steam heating. Dr. 
Fenner is also engaged in grajie and miscellaneous 
farming. Kach branch of his business — manufac- 
turing, street-car management with its accessories, 
printing ( the (llobe Printing House ), and farming — 
is organized by it.self ; but the general sujjervision of 
the whole falls upon him. He is a director of the 
Hubbard t"oni|);iny, the Fredonia National 
IJank, antl the Merchants' National Mank 
of Dunkirk ; is a member of the local 
board of the State Normal School at 
Fredonia: and w.is formerly the presi 
dent of the Life and Reserve .Associa- 
tion of Huffiilo. 

Dr. Fenner is most widely known 
through his political connections. He is 
an earnest Re])ublican, has been prom- 
inent as a leader in local politics, and has 
held various offices. He served his town 
as suix;rvisor — its highest office — two 
terms, in 1«7« and 1S7!I. In 1HH() his 
district sent him to the legislature as its 
assemblyman, ami the following year he 
was re-elected. In liSlK) and l«!ll he 
was deputy collector of customs of the 
port of New York. 

PEfiSOX.I L C IIR ONOL OGY— 
Milton Marion Fenner was horn at South 
Stockton, N. v., July '-i8, 18,i7 : «-<;> 
eJucateii in the public schools, Ellington 
(X. y. ) Academy, an,l Allegheny College, 
Meaih'ille, J'enn. : graduateil from the 
Eclectic Medical Institute at Cincinnati in 
ISGU : married Georgianna L. Grandin 
of Jamesttrtcn, A'. Y., June '>, IStiU, and 
Florence E. /iondeson o/Janiesttnon March 
28, 188.i : serred in the Union army 
and na-ry, 1801-(H; practiced medicine in 
Michigan, 18')!>-01, and in Jamestinvn, 
ISa^-O!) ; 7oas memher of assembly, ISSl- 
82, and deputy collector of customs at the port of Nnv 
York, 1SH0-!U : has practiced medicine in Fredonia, 
N. Y. , since 1860, and carried on the manufacture of 
proprietary medicines there since 1872. 



.ItCUiaimn if laolCV ^ an excellent ty|K: of the 
class of citizens to whose progressive spirit and un- 
tiring energy is due in large meswure the material 
development of the Kmpire Slate. This is the class 
that I M )s.sc-s.ses the ability to organi/c, and the skill 
and means to < arry out suci-es.sfully, large o|ierations 
in the commer< ial ami mechanical fields of industry. 
In this day of gigantic undertakings, reipiiring for 
their execution large numlnrrs of men and sast ex|>en- 
diturcs of money, there is in every communily an 
urgent dcniaml for men of e.\eculive ability and high 
integrity . 

Such a iii.iu i> .\lr. Flagler in the community in 
which he livc-s. He was educated in the <li.stricl 
school and in the I.ock|M)rt I'nion St ho<il. With 
this training added to his natunil mental endowments, 
he began his business career. This, however, was 




HE\JAMIS ll.li.l.lr/f 

di-stined to be arrested soon by a <all to higher eluty. 
Ihe great Civil War inter|Kise»l Utween him and his 
[(ersonal interests and commercial |)ros|xrcLs. It 
found him a young man in pros|)erons condition. 



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married, settled in business, looking forward to the 
steadv-going course of commercial and domestic life. 
The war found many other young men similarly cir- 
cumstanced. Some heeded the call of their coun- 
try, and ([uickly volunteered their services ; others 
turned a deaf ear to the summons of the nation. 
Mr. Flagler proved himself a true patriot. He 
enlisted in the first regiment raised in Niagara 
county, and served in the model Army of the 
Potomac until honorably discharged for disability. 

Mr. Flagler was for many years connected with 
the customs service, holding the offices of inspector, 
dejiuty collector, and collector at Suspension Bridge, 
X. Y., during a period of twenty-three years. 
While in these positions he established a reputation 
for courtesy, accuracy, and fidelity that commended 
him to all classes having business at the custom- 
house. 

Upon his retirement from public service Mr. 
Flagler directed his efforts to financial enterprises. 
He became president of the Suspension Bridge Bank 
on its organization in ISffO, and has continued at the 
head of that institution since then. Another field 
of activity which he entered about the same time 
was that of street railways; and he was elected 
president of the first surface road operated in Sus- 
pension Bridge. The development of electric power 
from Niagara Falls, so long a matter of speculation, 
has now become a demonstrated fact. Among the 
men deserving of credit and gratitude for this grand 
illustration of man's dominion over nature, is Mr. 
F'lagler, who was one of the incorporators of the 
Niiigara Falls Power Co., and who has been its vice 
president since \X\)\. 

Outside business relations Mr. I'lagler maintains a 
worthy and useful connection with various organiza- 
tions of a social, religious, and philanthropic char- 
acter. He is a Ma,son of the highest rank, and Past 
Cirand Master of the order in New York state. For 
many years he was a trustee and the treasurer of De 
Veaux College. His political affiliations are with the 
Republicans, and he has been honored by his party 
through ( lovernor Morton, of who.se staff he is a 
member, being chief of ordnance with the rank of 
brigadier general. In politics as in business, Mr. 
Flagler carries into practice the sound [irinciples of 
individual opinion and strict integrity. 

J'EJi S O XA L CHRONOL OGY— Benjamin 
Flagler was born at Lockport, N. Y. , December 10, 
18-iS ; 7oas educated in public schools ; married 
Martha J. McKnii^ht of Newfane, N. Y. , A'ovember 
9, 1859 ; served in the Union army, 1861-62 : settled 
in Niagara Falls, N. Y., in 1863 ; was in the cus- 
toms service at Suspension Bridge, N. Y. , as inspector, 



deputy collector, and collector, 1863-86; has been pres- 
ident of Suspension Bridge Bank since 1886, and vice 
/'resident of Niagara Falls Bower Co. since 1891. 

— — •♦• 

Milliam 1\ 1I^cn^cr5on of Randolph, n. y., 

lias won advancement and honor by holding fast to 
one good profession for a lifetime. At sixteen years 
of age he entered Fredonia Academy, then the leading 
institution of its kind in western New York. At 
eighteen he was teaching. By dint of attending 
schools when he had the opportunity and teaching 
between times to earn the means therefor, he was 
able, at the age of twenty, to graduate from the 
State Normal College at Albany. 

After receiving his diploma Mr. Henderson went 
to Randoljjh, N. Y., where for two years more he 
taught school to defray expenses while studying law. 
This preparation resulted in his admission to the bar 
at Buffalo in 1852. Since then Mr. Henderson has 
practiced his profession continuously at Randolph 
with but one change in the name of his firm. His 
first ]mrtnership was with J. E. Weeden, upon whose 
retirement in 1859 Mr. Henderson associated himself 
with Alexander Wentworth ; and to the pre.sent day 
the firm name is Henderson & Wentworth. As he 
says him.self, "Neither politics nor jjleasure nor 
other business has ever interfered with the practice 
of my profession." 

Professional devotion, however, has not ai)sorljed 
the whole individuality of Mr. Henderson. He has 
been ready to contribute his talents to public service, 
if the office came without any seeking on his part. 
That he has not been more in ])ublic life is due to 
the fact that he has always belonged to the Demo 
cratic party, which has not been uppermost in 
western New York. Wiicn only twenty-three years 
of age Mr. Henderson was nominated for the office 
of treasurer of Cattaraugus county. He was ap- 
pointed county judge by Governor Tilden to fill a 
vacancy, in 1875. At the next election he was his 
party's choice for the same office, and succeeded in 
reducing the Republican majority in the county from 
three thousand to about three hundred. Shortly 
afterward Covernor Tilden again placed him in office, 
this time as justice of the Supreme Court for the 8lh 
judicial district. That he wa.s popular in his own 
communit)' was shown by his selection a.s president 
of the centennial celebration of his county, which 
occurred at Olean ]\\\\ 4, 187(). Three years later 
he was nominated as state senator; and close upon 
this honor came that of representing his state as 
alternate delegate at large in the Democratic national 
convention that nominated Hancock and English at 
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elected delegate at large, and Mr. Ilcndersun was 
elected his alternate, and at the governor's re<|uest 
Mr. Henderson attended in his stead. 

Mr. Henderson holds a directorate in the l-'irst 
National Hank of Salamanca, in ihe People's Rmk 
of KiLst kaiulolph, and in the State Hank of Ran 
dolph, of which he was for ten years 
president of the lioard of directors. Suc- 
cessive preferment.^, political or profeN 
sional, have attested the high esteem in 
which l)oth his ability anil his integrity 
are regarded at home and in official 
circles. 

Two very important trusts have been 
assigned to .Mr. Henderson and faithfull\ 
discharged h\ him. For many \ears he 
was the legal adviser of Henjamin Cham 
berlain, the founder of Chamberlain 
Institute, and was thus intimately ac- 
(juainted with that gentleman's philan- 
thropic and educational ideas. Since 
1H7(> Mr. Henderson has been president 
of the board of trustees of Chamberlain 
Institute, and h;is carried out the benef- 
icent projects of the founder with dis- 
tinguished success. For a period almost 
equally long he has been presiilent of the 
board of trustees of the Western New 
York Society for the Protection of Home- 
less and Dependent Children. To this 
worthy charity he has given his most 
earnest thought antl labors. L'nder his 
guidance a "Home" has been built 
which now cares for about one hundred 
and forty children, and in which they 
are educated and trained imtil homes are 
found for them. 

J'ERSOX.IL CHROXOL OG Y— 
W'illitim //. Henderson was horn at TuHy, 
X. v., December If, 1828; was ediii-aleJ al FreJonia 
Academx am/ at the State Normal Colle;^e at A/haiiv, 
X. y. : 7C'as itominateii for treasurer of Cattaraiij^iis 
county in 18i)l : was a/>/>ointe J county Jni/ge of Catta- 
raugus county in ISl-'i, an J justice of the Supreme 
Court for the 8th Jui/icia/ district in 187(1 : loas delegate 
to the Democratic national corrention in 1880 : married 
Anna M. Morris of Ellicoth-i/le, X. )'., June -i, 
1858, and Emily A. Thompson of Randolph, A". )'., 
July O, 188.'> : has practiced law in Randolph since 18.') J. 



lumlK;r interests in the West, and as representative of 
the.'iOthsenatedistrict in the legislature, Mr. Higgins 
gives in his daily life evidence of great energy and 
unusual |x>wer of concentration and organi/ation. 

His education liegan in the district whool of his 
native town, anil Hn.^ continued in the M'niinarv at 




businc-vs ;uul poliliial life of southwestern New York, 
as his father had before him. As the owner of three 
stores in Ok-an, in addition to various mining and 



WII.I.IAM H. HF.SDEkSOS 

Pike, Wyoming county, and in the Riverview Mili- 
tary .\cademy at l'oughkce|>sie. \\ the age of 
eighteen he l)egan business life in Chicago as the 
western sales-agent of .in eastern refinery of lubritat- 
ing oils. He continued this businc-ss for only a short 
time, going from Chicago to Denver, Col., where he 
s|ient jiarts of the years IST't and 1M7<>. Returning 
again to the middle west, in Noveml>er, |N7(>, he 
l>ought an interest in the mercantile firm of Wood, 
Thayer & Co. at Stanton, Mich. The following year 
he |)ur< hasetl the interests of his |iartners, and con- 
tinued the business in his own name. 

Mr. Higgins's father, (). I'. Higgins, w.xs at this 
time extensively engage<l in mercantile business in 
(llcan anil other towns of western New York and 



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northern Pennsylvania. The firm of Higgins, 
Blodgett & Co., in which the elder Higgins was 
senior partner, had nine .stores sctittered through this 
territory, chiefly at Olean. In February, l(S7il, Mr. 
Higgins sold his interests in Michigan, and bought 
a ])artnershii) in this firm : and after five years he 




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close of his term was recognized as among the leaders 
in the upper house at Albany. His constituents 
showed their ajjpreciation of his services by giving 
him a renomination without opposition, his district, 
the 50th, consisting under the new constitution of 
Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties. The Demo- 
crats, Prohibitionists, and Pojndists of 

, his district made no nominations against 

him, and his re-election lacked little of 
l)eing unanimous. He is chairman of the 
; important committee on ta.\ation and 
j retrenchment, to which the famous 

Raines excise bill was referred in Feb- 
ruary, l,sy(). 

Mr. Higgins attends the Episcopal 
church. He has been Eminent Com- 
mander of St. John's Conimandery, No. 
' '.^4, of Olean, and is trustee of the 
Randolph Home for Friendless Children 
and of the Chautauqua Assembly. He 
has always taken deep interest in the 
growth and improvement of the cit)- 
where he has his home, and of the sur- 
rounding locality. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— 
L'ratik Wayland LJiggins was born at 
Rtishjord, N. V. , Angus/ 18, 1856 ; was 
educated in the public schools and at River- 
view Military Academy, Poughkecpsie, 
N. Y. ; tvas in business in Chicago and in 
Denver, 187^—76 ; was in business at 
Stanton, Mich., 1876-79 ; married Kate 
C. Noble of Sparta, Wis., June 5, 1878 : 
I Jcas a delegate to the Republican national 

; convention in 1888 : was elected state sen- 

'• ator in 1893 and re-elected in 1895 ; has 

conducted a general i?!ercantile business in 
Olean since 1879. 



bought the Olean stores from his partners, and he 
now owns three stores in Olean. His talent for 
organization is such that he has been able for the last 
eight years to devote most of his time to ]jine and 
iron lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, 
where he has large holdings. 

Mr. Higgins took an early interest in ]joliti(s. 
He was elected a delegate to the Re])ublican national 
convention at Chicago in 1888. In 18!t;} he was 
nominated and elected state senator from what was 
then the 82d district, consisting of Allegany, Cat- 
taraugus, and Chautau<iua counties. His service was 
distinguished by strict integrity, close attention to 
legislative business, and honest independence. Thus 
he early acquired strong influence, and before the 



3obn liauiiam lioumpbrcy?, 3r., ba.s led an 

active, energetic life, fiill of enterprise and useful- 
ness. He was born in New England, in the thriving 
town of New Britain, Conn., le.ss than half a cen- 
tury ago. At an early age he was sent to boarding 
school at Saybrook, Conn., a delightful old village 
situated on Long Island sound at the mouth of the 
Connecticut river. His parents having moved to 
Chicago, his elementary education was completed in 
the public schools of the western metropolis. Then 
he entered the Northwestern Seminary at Evanston, 
111., to prepare for Heloit College, where he finished 
his scholastic studies. 

At the age of twenty-one Mr. Humphrey launched 
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well at Pithole, I'cnn. He soon extended his oix.'ra- 
tions in the oil district, and l>ecame interested in 
valiial>le |jro|)erties near '['itusville. The allied busi- 
ness of coal mining also engaged his attention, and 
this he carried on with a [jarlner under the fmn name 
of HumphreJi' & Co. He next devoted a period of 
two years to manufacturing at Krie, Penn., and re- 
tired from the coal and oil liusiness. About this 
time railroading became attractive to him, and for 
some months he was in the service of the New York, 
Pennsylvania & < >hio railroad at Meadville, Penn. 

In 1H77 .Mr. Humphrey chcse a new anti entirely 
different field for his activities and talents, becoming 
the proprietor of the Tuna Valley House at Brad- 
ford, Penn. This was the beginning of his career as 
an owner and a manager of hotels. He soon pur- 
chased the St. James hotel, which he carried on 
successfully for several years, when he 

dispo.sed of it, removed to Jamestown, , 

.\. Y., and acquired possession of the , 
hotel that now bears his name — the 
Humphrey House. The success of this 
hotel is |)roof of .Mr. Himiphrey's ability. ' 
l-'ew kinds of business retjuire so many 
and varied talents as hotel-keeping. It ■ 
demands brains, executive ability, and 
velvety tact. The hotel has assumed in 
modern life an imi>ortance undreamed of 
in the days when travel was limited to 
short distances. Hotels are ihe homes 
of a large i'la.ss of people. I'o meet the 
wishes of the traveling public and lu 
provide for their wants, is a task that taxes 
a man's resources at all |>oints. Mr. 
Humphrey has set a high standard for 
the ( onduct of his hotel, anil has main- 
tained that stanilard under all i inum- 
stances, however trying. 

In addition to his hotel business Mr. 
Hum|)hrey, since his father's death in 
October, 1H!I."!, has carried on the manu- 
facture of carriages and im|)lenients, a 
business that his father had built up to 
large proportions. 

Political alTairs have always interested 
Mr. Humphrey, anil while he has not 
sought office, he has l>een an active Re- 
publican in both state and national [loli- 
tics. He is a .Mason of ihe :V2d degree 
and a Knight Temi»lar. 

/'/■:JiSOXAL CHROXOLOGY—John William 
Hiimf'hrfy, Jr., was born at Xflo Britain, Conn., 
Dfirmher '>, IS^O ; 7oas fihuateil in various f>rf- 
/•aratory seliools anil at Bdoit Collff^f, lifloit. Wis. : 



u>as an optrator in oil anil coiil in Prnnsylfania, 
180S-72 ; marrifil Mary E. Jnpin of Erie, Penn. , 
Oitohfr HI, ISli: U'as engaged in Iht hotel business 
at /irail/iml, Penn., 1S17-SJ : puri based the Hum 
phrey House at Jamestinon, X. J'., .March /, ISS.i, 

,}n.l 'tl,1\ . .'tl.itt.f,-.! til'' \.ttlli' \tft,r' 

i- IJ- 3C\VCll » iTouiinciiI 111 legal i ircles in 
t'attaraiigu.s 1 uuiuy, where he hiis practiced his pro- 
fession with distinguished success for neiirly thirty 
\ears. 

After an education received at Rushford and Ar 
cade academies, both well-known institutions til 
southwestern New York, in IHi;.") he entered the law 
office of C'ary & Holies in Olean as a student. Iwo 
years later he was admitted lo the Iwr. Ihe firm 
with whii h he had studied w.-is one of the most 




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successful in the county, and the fact that Mr. Jewell 
was immediately admitted to (jartnetship shows 
thai he had already displayed marked ability. The 
new firm of ( 'arv. Holies iS: lewell eslablisheil it.si-lf in 



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Little Valley, which had just been made the count}- 
seat, and remained there for the next six years. 

It was during his first year in Little Valley, and 
when he was little more than twenty-five years old, 
that Mr. Jewell achieved his first brilliant success, and 
established his reputation as a lawyer of splendid 




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promise. Throughout Cattaraugus county men of 
middle age and over still remember the " celebrated 
Burdick ca.se," as it was called. The man was 
indicted for the murder of a negro, and was convicted. 
The public sentiment against him was so strong that 
the judge before whom the case was tried connnitted 
an error in his charge to the jury, and on this ground 
Mr. Jewell obtained for his client a second trial. 
Here, too, the prisoner was convicted, but his indefat- 
igable young lawyer succeeded in having the .sentence 
commuted by Clovernor Hoffman to imprisonment. 
Mr. Jewell conducted the entire case without the aid 
of other counsel ; and the legal learning, tact, and 
untiring perseverance that he displayed at once 



brought him into prominence, and secured for him 
the beginnings of the lucrative practice that he has 
since enjoyed. Although he has not confined him- 
self to criminal cases, it is worthy of note that during 
his professional life he has defended twelve men who 
were on trial for their lives, and not one of them has 
been executed. 

In 1883, when Judge Bolles retired 
from the firm, Mr. Jewell returned to 
Olean, and was associated with Mr. Gary, 
and later with his brother, M. B. Jewell. 
Since 189o he has practiced alone. 

Mr. Jewell is a stanch adherent of the 
Democratic party, and received a nomina- 
tion for district attorney in 1873. His 
county was strongly Republican, and he 
was of cour.se defeated ; but he ran about 
four hundred votes ahead of the party 
ticket. This is the only political office 
for which he has ever been a candidate ; 
hut in August, 1894, he was appointed 
by President Cleveland United States 
agent for the Indians of New York state, 
and this position he still fills. 

A very notable achievement in the 
practical application of the law of real 
property has recently been accomplished 
by Mr. Jewell. Congress having author- 
ized the .secretary of the interior to nego- 
tiate with a land comi)any for the pur- 
cha.se of whatever title, if any, the 
company had in the lands of the Seneca 
nation of Indians in New York state, 
Mr. Jewell was called upon to investigate 
the title of the lands in question. The 
merits of the case were exceedingly diffi- 
cult to ascertain, as the controversy went 
back to the year 16'24, when the state 
of Ma.ssachusetts claimed the territory. 
Grants were made of certain rights by 
.Ma.s.sachusetts and by New York before the constitu- 
tion of the Lhiited States was adopted, and after 
that conveyances were made under the grants from 
the two states. The determination of the title at 
this time, therefore, was a most difficult legal prob- 
lem ; and the ]jroper solution of the problem by 
Mr. Jewell, to the satisfaction of the United States 
government and of eminent lawyers interested in the 
case, must be regarded as striking evidence of his 
legal ability. He presented an exhaustive report on 
the subject, which was a])proved by the United States 
de])artment of justice and adopted by it ; and this 
re]jort will be a permanent record in the archives 
of the government, and will doubtless have a most 



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im(Kirtant influence, in case the (|iieslion slvill imt 
arise again. 

Outside of his profession Mr. |ewell find.-. iiUcri.>t 
and recreation in farming. He owns a small farm 
not far from ( )lean, to the management of which he 
devotes < onsideral>le attention, and from which he 
derives much pleasure. Mr. Jewell is not a meml)er 
of any chun h, Imt his syni|>;ithies are with the 
Methodists. 

PERSONAL Cll RONOLOGV — Joseph K. 
Jt-iuell was luirii lit Maihiiis, N. }'., Apri/ !■'>, ISJ,^ : 
7(ias i-Jiicaled in llu- ifis/n'ct schools ami in Riishfonl 
iind Arcade acailemies : 7iuis ailmitleil to the bar at 
Jhifi'a/o in lSii7 : marrieit Julia F.. tamper of Cone- 
loant^o. A'. }'. , Septemher .J, 1S70 ; practical law in 
Little ralley, yV. J'., lSiJ7-7-i : was nominated for 
district attorney of Cattaraugus county in 
lS7-i ; was appointed i 'niteil States agent 
for the A'eic York Indians August M, 
lf>04 : has practiced lato in Olean since 
1S7-I. 

1X\. 1l.\ /JDanDcvUlC, the son of 

John Ur.ikc .NLuk1c\ ille and Susan Man- 
deville, is an e.vcellent lyiK; of the men 
who have made our country what it is 
to-day — one of the world's greatest 
nations : for, as is well known, it is not 
the few phenomenal geniuses who raise a 
|K.-o|>le to the foremost rank among the 
families of the earth, hut the solid rank 
anti fde of intelligent, educated, energetii . 
and public-spirited citizens, who are 
always reaiiy to help forward any project 
for good in the community in which 
they live. 

Mr. .Mandevilie ha.^ been all his life 
most prominently connected with the in- 
surance business, that great feature of our 
modern life whi( h, as ha.s been well s;iid, 
is more than almost any other ty|)ical of 
our .-\merican civilization, l-'.ngaging first 
in this business when a young man, with 
his father, in Belmont, N. W, he moved 
soon afterward to ( )lean, which has ever 
since been his home. In a few years he 
became prominent in instirance circles, 
and was elected president of the fattarau- 
gus-county board of underwriterN: this po- 
sition he has held for the jKist thirty years. 

Mr. Mandevilie has not confined himself, however, 
to insurance interests. His active spirit has caused 
him to identify himself with the business of the 
I ountry in those special enterprises that characterize 



our age. lie was one of the incor|)orators of the 
Lima Natural (ios Co. of Lima, ()., and of the Ohio 
Oil Co.: and for twenty yesirs he has Itecn actively 
engaged in the proiluciion of |>elrolcum. 

We are sometimes tempted to think that one of the 
faults of our bustling, go-ahead, nineteenth-century 
life is that ea( h man thinks only of himself, and not 
always even of what is l)est for himself in the broad- 
est anil truest sease. In this resjiei t .Mr. Mandevilie 
certainly h.ns not failed, for his interest in all public 
enterpri.ses for the good of the commimity is well 
known. Kveryone nowadays realizes the im|)ortance 
of education and the general ditTusion of knowledge, 
and the two most |>otent factors to this end are the 
public .sthool and the public library. The man who 
helps forwaril either of thi-si- two institutions is doing 




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a great work for posterity, and Mr. Mandevilie. in 
his connection with the library at Olean, h.xs shown 
a most intelligent appreciation of this fact. He w.ns 
one of the original meml>ers of the Olean Library, 



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and for many years its president. Since its reorgani- 
zation as the Fornian Library he has been one of its 
managers, and his well-directed efforts have had 
much to do with the success of the institution. 

PERS ONAL CHR ONOL O G V— William 
Howard Mandeville was horn at iWillpor/, Chemung 




iiJ-:uk'i,/i II. J'ATT/ik.SO.X 

county, N. Y., August 15, ISi^l ; was educated in 
the public schools of New York city and of Belmont, 
N. Y. , and at Riishford Academy ; entered the insur- 
ance business in 1863, in partnership with his father, 
at Belmont, JV. Y; married Helen L. Eastman of 
Nashua, N. li. , August 22, 1872 ; has been engaged 
in the insurance business i/i Olean, N. Y., since ISO'). 

GCOnjC I'd. Patterson will l.c held in hon- 
oral)lc rcmcml)rancc by the jjeople of Westfield long 
after he has passed away. His greatest service to 
the village is the founding of the Patterson Library, 
a work in which he is still engaged. His sister, 
Hannah W. Patterson, left for this ])urpose a legacy 
of .SKin.lKHl, the application of which was entrusted 



to his care. Had the library never been undertaken, 
however, Mr. Patterson would still be long remem- 
bered for his services in the perfecting of land titles. 
The Chautauqua land office of the Holland Land 
Company was located at Westfield, and Mr. Patter- 
son's father was its agent. Since 1<S79 Mr. Patter- 
son has himself been the owner, legatee, 
and grantee of the remaining property of 
the Holland and Chautau<iua land com- 
panies for Chautauqua county. 'I"he 
jjooks, records, maps, and jjapers of the 
office have been in his possession, and 
have been kept with scrupulous care. In 
consequence, he has often been called on 
for evidence of the discharge of mort- 
gages, and for quitclaim deeds to perfect 
titles, when land-office deeds have not 
been recorded in the county clerks' 
offices. Many Chautauqua-county land 
owners have been saved great trouble 
and expense by the care and system with 
which Mr. Patterson has preserved the 
important papers that have come under 
his charge. 

Mr. Patterson was born on a farm in 
Livingston county, N- Y. His father 
determined to give him a liberal educa- 
tion, and he was fitted for college at the 
'I'emple Hill Academy, Geneseo, the 
Westfield Academy, and the Genesee 
Wesleyan Seminary at Lima. At the age 
of eighteen he entered Dartmouth Col- 
lege, where he graduated in 1848 with 
the degree of .\. P., and from which he 
received his .\. M. three years later, 
{•"or the ]nirpose of coinjjleting his educa- 
tion, and not with any view to practic- 
ing, he entered a law office in Buffalo, 
and studied about two years. His father 
had moved to Westfield with his family in 1841, 
and here, ten years later, our subject entered busi- 
ness life by becoming a member of the firm of Waters 
& Patterson, manufacturers of edge tools, shovels, 
forks, and hoes. He retired from this business in 
1854, and moved to Corning, where he became 
cashier of the Geo. Washington Bank. After four 
years he became president of this institution. The 
bank failed in the great financial panic of 1873-74 ; 
but Mr. Patterson was fiilly discharged of all claims 
by creditors of the bank. He then, in 1)S70, returned 
to Westfield, where his later years have been devoted 
to the benevolent works described above, to his per- 
sonal interests, and to the executorship of four estates 
averaging over .*?.'!( Ml, I Hio each. 



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Mr. Patterson's connection with public afTairs has 
Iwen limited to the towns in which he has lived. He 
was a menilier and |)resident of the lioard of educa- 
tion of Corning from lH(i7 to lH7(i, and a village 
trustee one term. His election to the latter office 
was significant of the respect in which he was held. 
Though a Republican, he receivetl a large Demo- 
cratic vote, and wxs chosen acting president of the 
village by his colleagues, all of whom were Demo- 
crats. He was al.so treasurer of the Hope Cemetery 
Association of Corning from IXoil to 1X76. He 
drew the |)reliminary plans for the first waterworks of 
Cuming and for the building of the Corning Free 
Academy. He also made the plans for the Westfield 
waterworks, and is a member of the board of water 
commissioners, having ser\'ed as president thereof 
since 1MM?S. 

Mr. Patterson was a member of the 
.\mphictyon Association of the CJenesee 
Wesleyan Seminary, and of the Zeta 
chapter of the Psi L'psilon and the Phi 
Chi Delta fraternities of Dartmouth 
College. He was a vestryman in the 
Hpisco|)al church at Corning, and fills 
the same office at Westfield. He has 
freiiuently contributed articles to news- 
l)a])ers on topics of interest, and ha.s 
collected with a view to publication 
genealogical (/<;/</ of more than fifteen 
thousand persons, descendants of his 
own and his wife's ancestors. Mr. 
Patterson's father was lieutenant gov- 
ernor of the .state in lN4K-.j(l, and his 
son is a professor in the Cniversity of 
Michigan at .\nn .Vriior. Kour gen- 
erations have borne the name tJeorge 
W;Lshington Patterson. 

PERSOXAl. CHROXOI. OGY— 
lifori^f Wiiihin^ton Piiltfrson 7oas horn a I 
Lfiifstfr, X. v., /•'<■/' run n 2't, IS^d : 
7''i/.f educated at Tarioiis preparatory' se/uw/s 
I Temple Hill Academy, Westfield Acad- 
emy, and Genesee II esleyan Seminary ) 
and at Dartmouth College, j^raduatinii 
therefrom in ISJfS ; studitul /</«' in Buf- 
falo, ISi!)-.'))) ; engaf^ed in the manufacture 
of edi^e tools at Westfield, N. V., 1S-',1- 
■'>4 : was cashier of the Geo. II 'ashiw^ton 
Bank at Cornin;^, .V. Y., /,9.).{— <.V, and 
president, IS'tS-l'i : married Frances De 
Etta Todd of Toddrille, N. )'., September 17, ISHl : 
has lived in Westfield since hfTO ; has been tricner, 
Ici^atee, and j^rantee of the Holland and Chautauqua 
land companies since IS' 'J. 



3C£>!?C iPctCrSOU has long been a conspicuous 
figure 111 the Inisiness and |)olitical life of western 
.New York. He removed from his native town of 
Belfast, N. Y., to Lockport in 1M.")N, and that city 
has ever since been his home and the scene of his 
business enterprises. After a somewhat limited 
early education, which extensive travel in his own 
country antl in luiroiK.- and .Africa has amply .su]>- 
plemented, Mr. Peterson at the age of eighteen 
embarked u|)On the sterner activities of life. He 
engaged first in the business of a contractor, and 
for five years devoted himself to this work. During 
this time, notwithstanding his youth, he carried 
out several im|x>rtant works, such as the tunnel 
for the Hydraulic Com|)any of I.ocki>ort, and the 
main portion of the waterworks of the city of 
Toledo, Ohio. 




JESSE PETEKSOX 

Mr. Peterson next turned his attention to manu- 
fai luring, and in this fielil. which has ever since 
< laimed his attention, his greatest success has been 
attained. His first \ci)iiirc in this new sphere of 



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activit\' was made as half owner of the Penfield Block 
Co. of Lockport, X. Y. While connected with this 
concern he built up and extended the business until 
it became the largest of its kind in the world. This 
early achievement is characteristic of Mr. Peterson's 
whole career, since he has always been able to out- 
strip com|)etitors in any industry to which he has 
turned his attention. 

While occupied with the affairs of the Penfield 
Block Co., Mr. Peterson's attention was drawn to a 
field just beginning to attract the notice of capital- 
ists — the manufacture of wood pulp. In this he 
perceived a fine opening for his business enterprise, 
and he established a plant accordingly in Lockport. 
Since 188.'! he has been proprietor of the Cascade 
Wood Pulp Mills. A further development of this 
industry is found in the manufacture of wares from 
the hardened, or indurated fiber of the wood. In 
1885 Mr. Peterson became president of the Lockport 
Indurated Fiber Co., which has since been consoli- 
dated into the Indurated Fiber Co. of New Jersey, 
with a capital stock of $750,000. It is the largest 
establishment of its kind in the world. 

Mr. Peterson has never been amljitious for public 
office, but he stands high in the esteem of his party, 
and was honored by a place on the Democratic 
electoral ticket in 1888, when President Cleveland 
was a candidate for re-election. 

Mr. Peterson has not failed, in the midst of a 
busy career, to broaden his knowledge and liberalize 
his mind by extensive travel in many parts of the 
world : indeed, this has been his chief recreation 
and one great interest outside of business. He has 
visited nearly every city of any importance in 
Europe, and has extended his travels into the less 
frequented regions of northern Africa, exploring the 
coast as far east as Tunis and spending considerable 
time in the Creat Desert. But he has not committed 
the fault of which many an American is guilty — that 
of neglecting the places of interest in his own land 
and devoting his attention .solely to exploring the 
old world. His extensive travels in the United 
Slates have familiarized him with the wonderful 
natural beauties of the country, as well as with the 
great cities, whose phenomenal growth and enterpris- 
ing s]jirit are full of interest to a man of Mr. Peter- 
son's progressive character. (lifted by nature with 
a fine voice and a love of music, Mr. Peterson has 
given considerable recreative attention to musical 
societies. 

Mr. i'eterson is a fine specimen of physical man- 
hood, being six feet and two inches tall and of pro- 
portionate build and weight. He has reached his 
present position of prosperity and infiuenie through 



a hapjjy combination of sound judgment and sagacity 
with that venturesome spirit which, in this age of 
sharp competition, has become essential to great 
success. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Jesse Peter- 
son was born at Belfast, Allegany count}', N. V., 
October 1, 1850 ; was educated in Lockport (iV. Y. ) 
Union School ; married Arabella A. Brojvn of Lock- 
port January 29, 1874 : w'SJ halfo7vner of the Penfield 
Block Co. of Lockport, 187!)-8'> ; has been engaged 
in the manufacture of loood pulp and indurated fiber in 
Lockport since 1S8S. 



5Cr01Ue iPrCStOU is one of the men to whose 
energy, determination, and business acumen James- 
town, N. Y., owes its growth and prosperity. He 
is the kind of man that is of great value to any 
community, alive to all its interests, and prepared 
at all times to shoulder his full responsibility as 
a citizen. The moral welfore of the city as well as 
its material advancement has found an ever ener- 
getic supporter in Mr. Preston. In whatever direc- 
tion his duties lay, he brought the full force of his 
strong nature to bear in their discharge. Con.scious 
of his own rectitude, he has proceeded on a straight 
line, turning neither to the right nor to the left, 
intent only on fidfilling his obligations as a man and 
a citizen. 

Mr. Preston is a Pennsylvauian b)' birth, but 
moved to Chautautjua county. New York, early in 
life. When twenty years old he formed a jjartner- 
ship with V. C. Clark under the firm name of Clark 
& Preston, and opened a general country store in 
the Chautauqua-county village of Kusti. This con- 
nection continued for four years, until 18.")!l. when, 
desiring a larger field for his operations, he moved 
to Jamestown. There he has since resided, an 
active force in the business, political, social, and 
religious circles of that city. His first venture there 
was of a rather ambitious nature, for, with Deforest 
Weld as a partner, he opened one of the largest 
dry -goods stores in the town. Constantly alive to 
all opportunities for widening his sphere of activity, 
and having unlimited faith in the fiiture of the vil- 
lage, Mr. Preston was .soon engaged in \arious 
branches of trade. .Among his cojjartnerships were 
those of Preston, Harrington & Co. and Kent, 
Preston iV- Co., firms that will readily be recalled by 
all the older residents of Chautau(|ua county. 

lamestown was near enough to the oil fields to feel 
the influence of the early excitement there, and 
in 18(i2 Mr. Preston, in connection with Lewis 
.\ndrews, built the first oil refinery of which the 
city boasted. For several years thereafter this firm 



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continued to refine oil, Mr. I'rcston at the same 
time retaining a large interest in the dry-goods and 
clothing business, l-'or many years Jamestown has 
been noted for its woolen mills, and for the past 
twenty-eight years Mr. I'reston has been identified 
with that important inilustry. Throughout this long 
jjerioil he has been one of the man- 
agers of the Jamestown Woolen Mills, 
which have been conductetl during most 
of this time under the firm name of .Mien, 
I'reston iV Co. 

Mr. I'reston early began to take a 
lively interest in things political, and 
when only twenty -one years old he was 
elected town clerk of the town of Husti. 
I^ter he served as a trustee of the village 
of Jamestown, and was also a member of 
the board of education. For two years 
he represented the town of Kllicott, 
in which Jamestown is located, on the 
board of su|jer\isors of C"haulau(|ua 
county. In all the.se positions he was 
faithful to the trust re|)osed in him, ami 
guardeil carefully the affairs of the people 
he re|)resented. In lf<71 he was called 
to higher honors and responsibilities, 
being elected a member of the asscmldy 
from the '2d <-'hautau(|ua district. '\'\-\\> 
was a reform legislature, and among it.s 
members who afterward became famous 
the country over were Samuel J. 'I'ilden 
and David H. Hill. In many respects this 
legislature failed to command the rts|x't t 
of the people, but Mr. I'reston's course 
was such as to win the praise of his con- 
stituents. One of the local pa|x'rs said 
of him after the legislature adjourned : 

" Mr. I'reston has taken a slraijjluforwanl, con 
scienlious course at .Ml)any, honorable Ixith to 
himself ami tn the district. lie has gained the respect of his 
fellow niemlKTs, and accomplished much to retrieve the dilapi- 
dated reputation of the district and county on account of former 
venality ami corrujition. Mr. I'reston would go to .\lbany 
again with a wide acipiaintance and with something of a state 
reputation, not only for honesty hut for ability and strict atlen 
tion to his legislative duties." 

A tribute ei|ually warm and deserved appearetl in 
the New York Tinus, contributed by a (Jueens- 
county member of the same assembly. .Mr. I'reston 
thus retired from offi< e with a ret ortl that has often 
been held tip since as an example for other aml)itious 
men. 

For almost the whole |>eri()d of his active life Mr. 
I'reston has been a commtniicant of the First Ba|itist 
Church of Jamestown. In behalf of this sot ietv 



in |)arti< idar and the cause of Christianity in general, 
he has been an active worker. He believes that 
church membership means something more than 
church attendance and a yearly contribution, and he 
has always acted up to that belief. For over thirty 
years he was clerk and treasurer of the society men- 




JEROME PRESTOS 

tioned, retiring from those offices in December, 
1895. -As a mark of ap])reciation, he was titiani- 
mously re-elected to the offices from which he re- 
signed, pending the election of his sticces,sor. He 
has also been a force in Sunday-school work, and 
for a third ()f a century has been su])erintcnden! of 
the school connected with the First Haptist I'hurch. 
He was the first president of the first Young Men's 
Christian .Association formed in Jamestown, and has 
been a director of the present as.sociation since its 
organization. 

PERSONA I. C IIR OXOL OG } '—Jerome Pirskm 
was horn at Farminj^lon, Pfiiii. , January 28, IS-ii ; 
attendeii common ami sekct schools ant/ the Janifstinon 
( A'. Y. ) Acadcmx : marricil Hannah Hroa,lhcad of 



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MEN OF XEIV YORK— WESTERN SECTION 



Busii, N. v., June 4, 18r>6 ; conducted a general 
store in Busti, 185 J^— 59 ; 7iias elected member of 
assembly from the 2d Chautauqua district in 1871 ; 
has been engaged in mercantile and manufacturing 
pursuits i^dry goods, oil refining, Jamestmcn Woolen 
An lis, etc. ) in Jamestmvn, N'. Y. , since 1859. 




EDG.AH I'll-.RI'O.ST PUT.Wi.M 

]£C»Oar Ipicrpont IPUtliam is one of the men 

lo wliom the n;Uion owes a histing debt of gratitude. 
With a patriot's impulse he sprang to his country's 
defense in the hour of its peril, and followed the flag 
from the outbreak of rebellion until the last gun of 
the enemy was spiked : he faced rebel bullets in 
repeated battles, and was twice wounded : and when 
armed resistance was quelled, he returned to peaceful 
industry as un])relentiously as many another unsung 
hero of the Civil War. 

Though only seventeen years old, young Putnam 
was among the foremost to respond to Lincoln's first 
call for troops, enlisting as a ]jrivate in the Dth New 
York cavalry. While other boys of his age were at 



school or taking their first lessons in liusiness, he was 
in the army in Sheridan's cavalry, learning the hard 
lessons of war, in camp, on the march, and in the field. 
For four long years he served his country under the 
stern discipline of arms, mustered out among the last, 
as he had enlisted among the first. Mr. Putnam's 
career as a soldier was distinguished and 
meritorious. Enrolled as a private, he 
won, by his excellent bearing and ser- 
vices, successive promotions to the rank 
of corporal, sergeant, 1st lieutenant, cap- 
tain, and brevet major ; and all this 
before he was twenty-one years of age. 
He was noticed by federal authorities for 
his gallantry, and congress voted him a 
medal of honor for "distinguished con- 
duct in action." This flattering mark 
of approval was bestowed upon comjmra- 
lively few-, and only in recognition of ex- 
ceptional merit. Major Putnam saw hard 
fighting, and carries the scars of two 
wounds received upon the battlefield. 

In the year following the close of the 
war Major Putnam was appointed United 
States deputy surveyor, and went to Min- 
nesota, where he remained in this branch 
of federal service nine years. He then 
returned to his native county to enter 
jjrivate business as a book and drug 
dealer. He soon received the appoint- 
ment of postmaster of Jamestown, N. Y. 
In 18.SX he was elected clerk of Chau- 
tauqua county, and served in that capacity 
three \ears. Major Putnam has not 
sought the prefennent vi'hich a grateful 
government has been glad to bestow 
upon lho.se who made heroic sacrifices to 
save it, and which would have been his 
for the asking. He has been content to 
accept otific:es that came to him as a free 
tender on the ])art of his fellow-citizens. He has 
been active in promoting the interests of the party 
under whose leadershij) the principles for which he 
fought were established. He has been repeatedly, 
and is now, chairman of the Republican committee 
of his i:ounty, and is valued as a wise and patriotic 
counselor. 

For the past few years Major Putnam has given his 
attention to private enterprises, such as a directorate 
in the Chautaucpia County National Hank. He is an 
esteemed member of various military organizations, 
from the most general to these numbering only the 
pick and flower of brave veterans, including the 
( Irani! .\riny of the Rcpulilic , the L'nion Veteran 



MKX or .\/:i\- voh'K—ii-i:s-n:R.\ sKcr/ox 



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I.cgion, the Loyal Legion, and the Medal of Honor 
Legion. He is also a Mason and a Knight Templar. 
]'I:RS0.\AL CIIROXOI. Oa ) — E./gur Pin- 
/>(»!/ Piilihim was horn at Stiukton, C '//(////<///<///</ county, 
X. )'. , .l/i/r.J, ISii ; loas eJiKateJ ill common sdwoh : 
fiilisUJ tii ii firivale in llie Utii New York cavalry in 
SepUinlxr, USUI, iiiiii scrrcil unlit llic close of Ibe 7i'ar ; 
Jcas Unite.! Stiites ilcputy .uinryor in Minnesota, 
ISmi-l'i ; married Kppit Mace of Jamestown, N. Y. . 
l-'ehruary .T, 18~S : icas clerk of Uiautaut/iia county, 
lSS.'1-.'iI : lias liveil in Jameslinon since 1S7'>. 

lUUliam IRlCbniOUD has made are<ordasa 
successfnl business man and trustworthy piildir 
official. .\ great |>art of his Itest thought and elTort 
has lieen ex|(ended in the i)erlbrmanie of duties of a 
muni< iiud i hara< ter. The city of Lockport, where 
lie resided for over twenty years, repeat 
edly honored him with executive and 
administrative offices. He served that 
lommunitx as alderman four years, water 
commis-sioner three years, trustee of the 
hoard of education six years, and mayor 
of the city one year. In all these posi- 
tions of trust and res|)onsil)ility Mr. 
Kiihmond dis|)layed thorough knowl- 
edge, business methods, and fidelity — 
attributes much too rare in the annals of 
city government. .\ sound practical judg- 
ment has guided him through difficulties 
that would have proved a stumbling-block 
to most men, while his tried integrity has 
stam|)ed him as a man upon whom the 
|icople can rely in all emergencies. 

Though jjos-sessing the true traits of an 
.\merican citizen, Mr. Richmond is not a 
native of the I'nited States, having been 
born in Kngland, where his childhood 
was |)a.s.seil, anil where ail his schooling 
was obtained. He attended a private 
school in Worcestershire till he was fif- 
teen years of age, when he was brought 
to this countrv by his father. His un( le 
was alread) establi^heil in business in 
l.ockport, N. Y., and at his request Mr. 
Richmond took up his residence with | 
him in XiMu . Mr. Richmond .soon dis- 
played business ca|>a( ity of a high order, 
together with an atTable disjiosition, both 
combining to gain for him warm friends 
and numerous admirers. Such a man finds it hard 
to keep out of politics for any length of time. 
Popularity eventually brings to it> |)os.ses.sor nomina- 
tions for |>oliti(al oIVk e. Mr. Rii hmond proved no 



exception, and for fourteen years he served the city 
in the ilifTerent offii es mentioned. 

Having filled so acceplablv manv local trusts, 
he soon became one of the [uiriy leaders in west- 
ern New York, and his time and coun.sel have 
been freely l)estowed in every im|)ortant cam|)aign 
of re<ent \ears. In reiognition of his prominent 
standing as a business man, a public otVu iai, and a 
Democrat, he was appointed by I'resiilent (.'leveland 
collet tor of < iistoms for the ilistrict of Niagara, anil 
assumed the duties of his first federal office March 4, 
1M!I."). In this position he has given the same tare 
anil thtmght to the public business that i harat teri/etl 
the |)erformance of his duties in local offices. 

Meantime Mr. Riihmond has been engageti in 
the business to which he succeedetl on the tieath 
of his mil le in li^To. .\s a business man he has 




n 1 1. I.I.I M Kli ll.\lO.\l) 



shown him.self pnulent and i mistn.iiiM, .iiitl In 

wise management h;Ls earned for him.self distinct 

financial success anti an excellent reputation in com- 
mercial circles. 



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MEX OF XEir YORK—ll'ESTER.y SECTION 



In social and fraternal walks of life Mr. Rich- 
mond is likewise prominent. He is a member of 
Niagara Lodge, No. 375, F. & A. M., Lockport, 
and of Lockport Council, Royal Arcanum. He is a 
communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church. 
In all his relations to society, to the state, and to 




WALTER L. SESSrOXS 

the church, he has i)roved him.self a man of genial 
nature, public spirit, and |)hilanthropic im|nilses. 

PERSONA L CHR ONOL O G Y— William Rich- 
mond was born at Mitton, Worcestershire, E?igland, 
October 6, ISJii ; was educated at a private school in 
England ; came to the United States in 186S ; mar- 
ried Mary Mc Gill of Lockport, N. K, October U, 
1870; was alderman in Lockport, 1SS1-8S and 
1889-91, mayor of Lockport, 1883-8 Jf, water com- 
missioner, 1884-87, and trustee of the board of educa- 
tion, 1888-8!) and 1890-95; has been collector of 
customs at Niagara Ealls since March 4, 1895. 



TlUalter %. Sessions is a leading repre- 
sentative of one of the most famous families in 



southwestern New Y'ork. For more than forty years 
he has been among the foremost in the politics of Chau- 
tauqua county, .\lways a strong Republican, he has 
served his party, his state, and his country repeatedly, 
holding positions which are a guarantee of his great 
force of character and of the high esteem in which 
he is held by his fellow-men. Away 
back in the 'oO's he was elected a mem- 
ber of the assembly, and held the office 
for two \'ears. During his second vear 
he was chairman of the committee on ways 
and means, which is the most important 
committee of the house. This position 
made him the leader of the majority, and 
put him in direct line for the speakership, 
had he gone back for another term. 

Just at the close of the decade, the 
year Lincoln was elected President, the 
name of Mr. Sessions is found in the list 
of members of the state senate, .\nother 
gap of five years, and he is again found 
in the senate and again leader of the ma- 
jority as chairman of the finance com- 
mittee, the most important in the upper 
house, as the committee on ways and 
means is of the lower house. Most men 
are content to obtain this leadership in 
i the legislature after many years of un- 

/ broken service, and such experience is 

usually deemed necessary to familiarize 
a man with the fine points of parliament- 
ary practice requisite to successful guid- 
ance of the controlling party. Mr. 
Sessions, it will be observed, obtained 
leadership in both the assembly and the 
senate after having served in each only 
one term. Moreover, his two terms in 
the senate were not consecutive. 

Reference to the Congressional Direc- 
tory will show the name of Walter L. Sessions among 
the members of the 42d congress, which met in the 
third year of Cirant's first administration. Again his 
name apjjcars as a member of the 43d congress, elected 
in the exciting Crant-Cireeley cami)aign — the most 
interesting, perha])s, in the history of the Re|niblican 
party. There were famous men in those two con- 
gresses. James C. Blaine was speaker of both, and 
James A. (larfield was a leader on the floor. The 
New York delegation included such men as Henry 
\V. Slocum, .Samuel S. Cox, l-'ernaiido Wood, Clark- 
son N. Potter, John H. Ketcham, William .\. 
Wheeler, Ellis H. Roberts, and Thomas C. Piatt. 
Important measures were before congress, and the 
sessions were often exciting. The " salary grab " 



ME.\ or .\/;//- i(>A'A:--n-Asr/-:A'\ s/-:c77o.v 



1 :i'.i 



hill, raising the coin|jens:ition of memhers of congress 
fifty |jer cent and giving them ?.">,()(((( for lack [lay, 
is a case in |)oint. Mr. Sessions voted against this 
measure, and returned the money to the treasury. 
Another noteworthy bill was that aliolishing mileage 
for meml)ers of congress, which the house (Kissed and 
the senate allowetl to drop. Mr. Sessions voted for 
this hill. Reconstruction i|uestions had not yet 
|>a.s.sed out of congressional notice ; and the green- 
back question, which has been handeil down to 
|)re.sent times, was jii.st beginning to demand atten- 
tion. It is interesting to note that a hill |)roviding 
for the cancellation of greenbacks and substitution 
therefor of notes payable in gold two years after 
issue, was lost in the hou.se of the 4M congress by a 
vote of 7!l to KiO, with Mr. Sessions recorded in the 
negative. The most far-reaching legislation of this 
period, however, was the famous currency 
law of 1X73, containing the clause that is 
regarded in some (|iiarters as having sur- 
reptitiously demonetized silver. 

Ten years after his retirement from the 
43d congress, Mr. Sessions took his .seat 
in the 4!(th congress. 'I'his was the year 
in which ( I rovc-r Cleveland first became 
President. 

Mr. Sessions is a New Knglander by 
birth, his father having moved from Bran- 
don, \'t., to an unimproved farm in 
C'lymer, Chautauqua county, in 1 «:{."). 
Mr. Sessions went to the common schools 
and to the Westfield Academy. He took 
up his present residence in Panama in 
lX4ti, .so that his entire manhood has 
been sjtent there. He was admitted to 
the bar in 1M4!I, and began practice in 
Panama immediately. His only |)art- 
nership, which was fomieil in lMS(i and 
continued six years, was with John W'ood- 
ward, now justice of the Supreme Court. 
Mr. Sessions has .served his county as 
school commissioner and su|)er%'isor. He 
was a member of the boartl of (leneral 
Managers of the New York state exhibit 
at the World's Columbian Kxposition at 
Chicago. Aside from his law practice, 
Mr. Sessions has been extensively en- 
gaged in the tanning and currier business 
and in lumbering. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— 
Waller Looinis Sfssions 7i'as horn at Ihaiulon, Rut- 
land county, I 't. : was eJiuateJ in tlu common schools 
and in H'fstficid ( N. >' ) Academy ; married Mary R. 
Terry of Chmer. X. }'.. /// Z.?;.?.- -,•./. .i.lwlll.J l„ 



the bar in 18^!> ; loas $nemher of assembly, 185S-ii!,, 
slate senator, ISijO-iil and 18iJfi-iJ7, member of con- 
.trress, lS~l-l'j and lUSii-Ki : has lived in I'anama, 
Chaulaiiifiia county, since lS.',ii 

— •«• 

l-tiram Simtb "s a .splendid tyiK.' of the Ameri- 
can I ili/en. Ills grandfather was one of the pioneers 
of western New York, ha\ing settled in Chautau<|ua 
county in l«l(>. His lather hel|<ed clear the forests 
and break land for faniis where now are |K>pulous 
communities. Hiram was the eldest of fourteen 
children, seven ho\s and seven girls. He received 
his education in the tlistrict .sthool and Freilonia 
Academy. H is first business exi^erience was obtained 
as clerk in his father's establishment at Smith's Mills. 
In lM;J!t his father started a bram h store at (Jreat 
Valley, in Cattaraugus county, and sent Hiram there 




ItlHAM SMITH 



to take charge of it. The <ountr\ had not then fully 
emerged from the great [Kinic of 1M.S7, and it was 
very difficult to realize money from produce, business 
having sinik in a great degree to its primitive liasis 



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MEN OF NEW VOKK—IVESTEHA SECT/ON 



of exchange of commodities. Hiram soon had a 
large amount of timber to the credit of the house, 
and in l.S4() these logs were run to the mills and 
rafted to Cincinnati. In all these transactions the 
young man dis]jlayed so much business ability that 
in 184."] his father made him his partner, under the 
firm name of Rodney B. Smith & Co. For eighteen 
years they conducted an extensive and a successful 
general merchandise business. 

The outbreak of the Civil War found Mr. Smith 
in the prime of his vigorous manhood. The nation's 
call met a patriotic response on his part. He enlisted 
in ISfil, and served till the close of the war, retiring 
with the rank of major. Mr. Smith was connected 
with the quartermaster general's department, and 
had the responsibility of accounts aggregating many 
millions of dollars ; but so accurate and honest 
was his dealing with the government that he was one 
of the comparatively few officers who were able, 
when mustered out of service, to accept the generous 
offer of the government of three months' extra pay 
on presentation of certificates of nonindebtedness. 

After the close of the war Mr. Smith moved to St. 
Louis, where he engaged in mercantile business. 
The climate there proved detrimental to the health 
of his family, and he returned to New York state in 
1867, settling in Jamestown, where he has since 
resided. For the past quarter of a century he has 
been engaged there in the insurance business, and 
though now well advanced in years, he is a.s active 
and energetic as many men in middle life. 

Mr. Smith has taken an active interest in politics, 
and served two terms in the New York legislature 
before the war. He was for several years town clerk 
of Hanover, N. V., and filled one term of six vears 
as supervisor of the same place. In 1884 and again 
in 1890 he was the Democratic nominee for congress 
from the .'i4th district, and received the united sup- 
port of his party. As a citizen and neighbor Mr. 
Smith is regarded with high honor in Jamestown, 
for his upright life, strict attention to business, and 
just dealings with all men. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Hiram Smith 
was born at Llanorcr, N. Y. , October 25, 1819 ; was 
educated in the district school and Fredonia Academy ; 
engaged in general mercantile business, 1836—61 ; 7i>as 
elected to the state legislature in 185!), and re-elected in 
1860 ; served in the Union army, 1861-65 ; was 
nominated for member o/ congress from the SJfth district 
in 188 J^ and 1800 ; married Melissa P. Lo7<e of Fores t- 
ville, N. Y., September 10, 1844, and Anna L. Gray 
of famestown, N. Y. , September 10, 18!)Jf ; has lived 
in Jamestown since 1867, and has been engaged in the 
insurance business there since 1870. 



HllllOn H. Dan S)U5en inherited an honor- 
al)le name, which he has borne without blemish as a 
lawyer and citizen. Our best critics are those who 
have the fidlest opportunity to study us in all our 
relations to society ; and if the good opinion of 
one's neighbors is a source of happiness in life, Mr. 
Van Dusen must derive great satisfaction from the 
high esteem in which he is held in his community. 

Mr. Van Dusen made no mistake when he chose 
the law for his profession, and it would be hard 
to picture him in any other calling. His success 
has been all the more praiseworthy because he has 
overcome no small obstacle in the lack of a collegiate 
training. His elementary education was obtained in 
the public schools of Jamestown, N. Y., and was 
followed by a course in the Randolph Academy, 
which enjoyed a favorable reputation as a preparatory 
school. Having decided to become a lawyer, he 
entered the office of Alexander and Porter Sheldon, 
at Jamestown. After mastering Blackstone and Kent 
and the dull routine of the law clerk, he was ad- 
mitted to the bar in November, 1866, and three 
years later was admitted to practice in the I'nited 
States District Court. He then formed a partner- 
.shiij in Sherman, N. Y., and as junior partner of the 
firm of Benson & Van Dusen began the slow and 
arduous work of building up a clientage and winning 
a name in his profession. He moved to Mayville, 
N. Y., in 1871, and has since practiced his jjrofession 
there. He has been senior partner in the firm of 
Van Dusen & Martin since 1886. 

Wherever he has resided, Mr. Van Dusen has 
shown special interest in the cause of education, and 
has done much to promote the welfare of the com- 
munity. During the four years that he lived in 
Sherman he held the position of president of the 
board of education, and devoted much time and labor 
to the task of elevating and improving the condition 
of the public schools of the village. It was largely 
through his instrumentality that a new schoolhouse 
was built, in spite of much opposition. After his 
removal to Mayville Mr. Van D\isen continued his 
public-spirited efforts, and the handsome school 
building of that village, as well as the system of water- 
works, affords ample evidence of his devotion to 
the public good. 

In 18!)(» Mr. Van Dusen was elected to the bench 
as judge of the County Court, and his record in 
connection with this election is one of which he 
may well be proud. He declined to resort to the 
use of money or any other unworthy means of .secur- 
ing votes, preferring to rely entirely upon his personal 
popularity and fitness for the office. He gave to the 
county one of the most dignified and resjjectaljle 



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canvasses it had known for years. The result proved 

the truth of the old saying that " Honesty is the liest 

policy," for he was elected on the IX-niocratic- ticket 

by a majority of XK!( in a county where the normal 

Republican majority is 5, ((0(1. Mr. \'an iJnsen as a 

judge may be praised in unstinted measure. When 

he was ])romoted to the l>ench he took 

with him the ri|>ened e.\|)erience of a 

large and varied pra» tiie, an innate 

judicial balance, and the confidence of 

lawyer and layman alike. His record as 

county judge very i>ro|»erly commended 

him to his political associates, and in \X\\7t 

he was nominated by the Democratic 

party for judge of the Supreme Court. 

Mr. Van Dusen is a vestryman of St. 
Paul's K|)i.scopal Church of Mayville, 
and a mcml>er of the Holland Society of 
New York. 

J'j:/iSO.\AL CHROXOLOGV— 
Almon Au)^uslus Win Dusen ivas horn at 
JamfsUni'n, X. Y., January -i, lH^-i : U'as 
fJucatfJ in puhli( sr/iooh and in RanJolph 
AcaJfnn : 7vas aJmittfii to Iht bar in 
ISHij : marrifd Jdtie E. MtTihant of 
ffrocton, -\'. }'. , January -iO, },S71 : was 
appointfJ juili^f of the County Court of 
Chautauqua county January J, 16'fW, 
and was subsequently elected to succeed 
himself ; was nominated for judge of the 
Supreme Court in 1S!>5 ; has practiced law 
in Mayoille since 1871. 



C. IP. UO^^Cr has had an enviable 
career, l-^vcry man, it is said, has at least 
one opjxjrtunity in life to demonstrate just 
what he really is. His use of that oppor- 
tunity becomes the test by which he is 
ever after judged. The Civil War was 
.sui h an op|)ortunity to men now in middle life or 
beyond. To go to the front, leaving family, friends, 
and fortune behind, to suffer, and |)erchance to 
|)erish — this was the test that confronted the genera- 
tion born before the war. In their nimibcr was Mr. 
Vedder. He had .s|)ent his boyhood on a farm at 
Kllicottville, N. Y. In early manhood he worked 
on the Krie canal, was a raft.sman on the Allegheny 
river, fmally ship]>ed as a .sailor l)efore the mast, and 
rose to the |>osition of taptain at the early age of 
nineteen. .\11 this time he was saving money to (jay 
for an education, and the outbreak of the war found 
him a student in Springville Academy. But his 
ambition for a college course was not to Ik.- gratified. 
He decided that his dutv lav in responding to the call 



of his country. He closed his l)ooks, and left the 
academy to enter the practical school of war, enlist- 
ing as a private soldier in the l")4ih regiment. New 
\'ork vciluntcers. 

Mr. N'edder's sen-ice in the field was long and 
meritorious. He served from lX(i2 to the close of 




ALMO.y A. VAX Dl'SF.X 

the war, and fought at Chancellorsville, Wauhatchie, 
Lookout .Mounuin, .Missicjnary Ri<lge, siege of 
Savannah, and Bentonville. He was wounded at 
the battle of Rocky- Faced Ridge, was confined in 
I.ibby prison, and [larticiiated in Sherman's im- 
mortal march to the sea and through the Carolinas. 
He was promoted to be 1st lieutenant and captain, 
and for " gallant and meritorious conduct at the 
battle of I-<x)kout .Mountain" he was brevetted 
major in the regular army : and " for bravery in the 
cam|iaign to .\tlanta" he was promoted to Ik: lieu- 
tenant colonel of volunteers. 

Returning to his native state, Colonel Vedder 
studied law and was admitted to the lar. His suc- 
cess in civil life as a lawver, a business man. and a 



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MEN OF .VFir VOKK—irKSTERX SEC/70N 



legislator has been as complete and conspicuous as 
his record in the army was honorable and brilliant. 
He occupied the responsible position of register in 
bankruptcy for eight years. He filled the office of 
United States as.sessor of internal revenue for two 
years, and was state assessor for three years. How 




faithfully he performed the duties of the.se various 
offices is best proved by rejieated elections to the 
assembly and senate at Albany. 

In the legislature Mr. Vedder made a splendid 
record. He was first chosen to the lower house in 
l^T'i, and took a leading jjart in the debates and de- 
liberations of that body. He was chairman of the 
committee to draft articles of im|)eachment against 
Judge Barnard, of Tweed-Ring notoriety, and was 
one of the managers at the trial of that ofifiiial, 
evincing in both capacities legal ability of a high 
order and wide knowledge of ]jarliamentary |jro- 
cedure. In 1M75 he was elected to the senate ; and 
it is no exaggeration to assert that no man there did 
more than he to lighten the burdens of taxation \ipon 



those least able to bear them. He was the author of 
the laws taxing gifts, legacies, and collateral and 
direct inheritances, and reciuiring corporations to pay 
for the privilege of organization in the Empire State. 
.As a result of these measures millions of dollars have 
been paid into the trea.sury, and a permanent source 
of revenue has been provided for the state. 
.Mr. \^edder was chosen a delegate at 
large to the constitutional convention of 
1894, and served on several im]jortant 
committees. Of the thirty-three amend- 
ments proposed by the convention and 
adopted by the people, he drafted and 
introduced four. Too much cannot be 
said of the sagacity, zeal, and untiring 
devotion to the public interests displayed 
by Mr. Vedder in every position of trust 
and responsibilty to which the people 
have called him. The conslitiuion and 
the laws of the state alike attest his wis- 
dom and his worth. 

In the business world Mr. Vedder has 
also been a conspicuous factor. He is 
president of many corporations, including 
the State Bank of Norwood, the New 
York & New Jersey Ice Lines, the Elko 
Mining, Milling & Manufacturing Co., 
and the Falls Electric Power & Land Co. 
In politics he is a Republican. He is a 
member of the Presbyterian church, of 
the (i. A. R., and of the Masonic order. 
His social clubs are the Holland Society, 
the Republican Club, and the Lawyers' 
Club, all of New York city. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL OGY— 
Commoi/ore Perry Vedder luas horn at 
Ellicoth'ilk, N. V. , February 2S, IS-iS ; 
was educated at Spri/igville (iV. K ) Acad- 
emy ; served in the Union anny, 1862-65, 
rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel ; was admitted to 
the bar in lS(i(i : was register in bankruptcy, 1S67-75 : 
was United States assessor of internal revenue, 1S69- 
71 : 7cias member of the assembly, 1S72-75, and state 
senator, 1876-77 and 1884-91 ; was state assessor, 
1880-83 ; married Bettie E. Squires of Springville, 
N. v., September 2, 1862, and Mrs. Genevieve A. 
Wheeler of Chicago July 12, 1892. 



alel•an^er MentWOrtb received the hardy 

training of a farm bo\ , for his parents moved from 
Aurora, Erie county, when he was only four years 
old, to Ellicottville, N. Y., and soon after to a farm 
in the town of Randolph, X. Y. Practically his 
whole life has been spent in Randolph, and he is a 



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143 



representative of the class of men who are content 
to cast in their lot in places that olTer hut modest 
attractions, ami who, liy force of ability ami |)er!<i.si- 
ent effort, at length achieve a substantial comiK-'tence 
and hijjh standinj; in the coniminiity. 

Mr. Wentworth's educational opjxirtunities were 
of the limited kind usually available for the country 
boy of half a century ago ; but he tiseil ihem to the 
very best advanUige, and it is doubtful if the young 
man of to-day who goes through a prei^iratory 
school and a college without special effort on his 
own jKirt, derives as much benefit from the ex|x;ri- 
ence as did young Wentworth from his hardly won 
|)rivileges. For a time Mr. Wentworth |>aved the 
way to each winter's study by a summer of hard but 
healthful work on the farm. At seventeen he sub- 
stituted teaching for the farm work, but continued his 
study during spring terms at the Ran- 
tlolph Academy. At nineteen he began 
reading law, and carried on all three 
occupations as best he could for the next 
three years. It si)eaks well for his natural 
ability and for the excellent use he made 
of his opportunities, that he was able to 
com|jlete his legal studies at the age of 
twenty-two. He was admitted as an at- 
torney and counselor at law at the Cleneral 
'i'erm held in Buffalo in May, 1><5!). An 
interesting fact which Mr. Wentworth 
recalls in this connection is that President 
Cleveland was one of the cla.ss aiimittcd 
to the bar at this term. 

Mr. Wentworth had pursued his legal 
studies in the office of Weeden & Hender- 
son of Randolph, and on admission to 
the bar he at once formed a [partnership 
with William H. Henderson, under the 
name of Henderson iV Wentworth, Mr. 
Weeden retiring from the I'irm. This 
connection has lasted ever since. The 
firm, consisting of two men so able and 
so public-spirited as Mr. Wentworth and 
Mr. Henderson, has nattirallv be< ome a 
|)Ower in t'attaraugus < ounty, and has had 
a wide influence upon public aflairs. 
Their business is largely what is termed 
in the profession "litigation," and is 
varied and extensive, and they gi\e lo it 
their undivided attention. .Mr. Went- 
worth's son, Crowley, a graduate of 
I'rinceton, was admitted to the firm January 1, iMJKi. 
Mr. Wentworth has no taste for politics, and has 
never sought nor anepted a |)olitical nomination. 
Hut he is not unmindful of hi^ ilniii-, :in n i iti/en, and 



when im|>ortant interests are involved and there is "no 
iKilitics in it," he is at times active and aggressive. 
He h;Ls l>een willing to serve the community as |)resi- 
dent of his village and in similar positions. 

Mr. Wentworth is a prominent member of the 
.\la.sonic fraternity. He has lieen Master of Randolph 
Lodge, No. .{.")!», V. iV .\. M., most of the time for the 
IKist twenty years ; anil he wiis District Deputy (Irand 
.Master of the 2(ilh Ma.sonic district from 1N74 to 
iHHd. .\x the latter date jirofessional engagements 
com()elled him to decline the reappointment that was 
tendered to him. These oftices came to him without 
effort on his |>;irt, anil as a spontaneous testimonial of 
the esteem in which he is held bv his brother .Masons. 

PERSOX.t L CJIR OXOI. OGY— AUxander 
W'enhcorlli 7inis horn al Aurora, F.rif county, N. J'., 
////r J>!, lS-i7 : ivas fduciitfJ in common schools anJ 




M.EXASDEK WESTWOKTII 



111 Rani/o/f>h Acaiirmy : ivas luimit/fii to the har at 
Ihiffalo in lS-'>!t : marrifii Ellen C. CrtKt'lev of Ran- 
.lolf-h, X. Y., Octoher in, ISMi . Iiax practiced laio in 
Ramlolp/i since IS'iO. 



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SltrCl) "i. JBarUCS i^^ one of Buffalo's energetic 
bankers and agrceal)lc men of l)usiness. He has had 
a thorough training in financial matters, and is a 
consen'ative, industrious, and courteous official. 
Commercial life often seems uneventful and made u]) 
entirely of routine ; but closer observation shows 




Al.FRF.n J. n.lRXES 

that a successful mercantile career demands the 
same (|ualities recjuisite in more stirring pursuits, 
(iood judgment, courage, and a high sense of honor 
are as es.sential in the sphere of finance as in any 
other field of human activity. 

Mr. Barnes is a native of Troy, N. Y., and was 
educated in the public .schools of that city. His 
earliest business experience was in association with 
his father, who conducted a large steam-fitting and 
plumbing business in the city of Troy. He desired 
a different occupation, however, and when a position 
was offered him in the Manufacturers' National Bank 
of his native city, he eagerly accepted it. He en- 
tered the service of that institution at the foot of the 
ladder, and by faithfiil attention to his duties worked 



his way up through the different clerical grades until 

he became general bookkeeper. He continued in 

this position for nine years. 

Early in the '80's Mr. Barnes retired from the 

bank, and engaged with a local business concern. 

But his training and predilection was for finance, and 
in 1<S88 he went to Chicago, and accepted 

, a ])lace in the Continental National Bank 

of that city. With this institution he 
remained ten years, attaining the respon- 
sible position of chief clerk. His success 
in Chicago won him a valuable reputa- 
tion, and led to his engagement in Buffalo 
in 1.S93 as cashier of the City Bank. 

While Mr. Barnes's residence in Buffalo 
has been comparatively brief, he has 
nevertheless taken rank already as a 
shrewd and active financier, a capable 
official, and al'fable gentleman in all the 
relations of life. He is a member of the 
Ellicott and Independent clubs, and a 
Rei)ublican in his party affiliations. His 
circle of acquaintance in business and 
social life is rapidly extending, and he 
has the satisfaction of knowing that no 
community is more open to receive a 
man of his character than the Queen 
City. 

PERSONAL CHR OXOL O G Y— 
Alfred Joseph Barnes 7oas Inmi at Troy, 
N. Y. , July 12, 1856 ; luas educated in 
the public schools of that city, and received 
a technical training in the Gurley Mathe- 
matical Instrument Works of Troy ; was 
employed in the Manufacturers^ National 
Bank, Troy, 187-J—8<^, and in the Con- 
tinental National Bank, Chicago, 188S- 
9d ; married jWargaret L. B. Boyles of 
Riverside, Cook county, III. , October 22, 

IS'-iIi : has been cashier of the City Bank, Buffalo, 

since 18!t.i. 



StCpben Q. JGarnum has been a factor in the 

mercantile life of Buffalo lor fifty years. He went 
there in 1845, w-hen the main avenue of travel was 
by canal, and estal)lished himself in a business that 
has been known for half a century all through his 
section of the state as "Barnum's." That all- 
embracing, siii-generis term, " Yankee notions," best 
describes the mammoth stock of merchandise that 
Mr. Barnum's establishment provides. He has 
catered to the rich and the poor, to the large and the 
small, to men, women, and children. At all seasons 
of the vear Barnimrs has been a center of trade. 



ME\ o/- .\7:ir y(^A'K—\fEsr/:KX sectiox 



\^u 



Kspccially dear to the i hildren ha.s been the place, 
for -Santa t'laiis has made his headijuarters there ever 
since Stephen ( ). liarniim arrived in liuffalo. In 
this half-century of business activity Mr. IJarntuii has 
ever l)een in the forefront of the lattle, alive to the 
interests of his customers, careful to ask only for his 
tlue, honorable in his dealings with all men. 

When .\lr. Marnum's sc hool days were endetl at 
ihe academy in his native city of L'tica, he be<ame 
a clerk in the I'tica |)Ost office. There he remained 
for two years, when he entered the Oneida Hank of 
I'tica as discount clerk. Here his business training 
was continued until his father made him a |>artner in 
what was known as " Barnum's Ba/aar," where he 
obtained an insight into a business that he has suc- 
cessfully followed all his life. He remaineil with 
his father for several years, until, thinking it time tn 
start out for himself, he made way lor 
his younger brothers. Buffalo was then 
coming into notice as a growing com- 
mercial city, and the opportunities that 
it affordetl seemed to the young man just 
what he needed. Thither he went, 
therefore, with a stout heart, determined 
to succeed if untiring effort and steadfast- 
ness of |)iir|)Ose would avail. 

When he had been in business a short 
time a brother, Richard Smith Barnum, 
joined him in |)artnership ; but after a 
few years Richard went to Chicago, and 
there entered into business with another 
brother, Kzra S. Their business was of 
the .same general nature as that in which 
Stephen was engaged in Buffalo, and 
which the father conducted in I'tica. 
The great (."hicago fire brought hea\ y 
loss to Ste])hen, who had become largely 
interested in the Chicago venture by the 
death of his brothers. Since then .Mr. 
Itainum has given his main attention to 
his Buffalo business, but he has found 
opportunity to serve other interests, 
having been at different times a director 
of the Western TransiHJrtation Co., the 
.\merican Kxchange Bank, and the Km- 
pire Salt \\\)rks of Warsaw, N. V. 

While taking such interest in public 
matters as is the duty of all good 
citizens, Mr. i^arnum has never sought 
nor held political office. In his younger 
days, however, he took a more active iwrt in affairs 
than he has taken of late. At one tinu- in the early 
history of the city the rivalry between the different 
fire c()m|«nies became so great that more attention 



was given by their members to fighting each other 
than to fighting firc-s. 'The situation I >ecame so scan- 
dalous at last that the city council was obliged to 
disband the comiKinies and to call for voluntetrs to 
fill their |)laces. Mr. Barnum was one of the volun- 
teers, and ran to more than one fire. Before his 
removal to Buffalo he was a member of the I'tica 
fire de|>;irtment. He was also a lieutenant in the 
Utica Citizens' Corps, and is now an honorary mem- 
ber of that organization. 

J'/:JiSOX.-1L CHROXOLOCY—Stffheii Os 
honii- liarnum was horn at L'tica, N. }'., January IJf, 
JSJiJ : li'as fJiicati-J ill the [>iihlic sduwls ,■ l>ej^aii hit si 
luss in Ulica in partnership 7uith his father in IS-tS : 
married Eliztil>eth ChatfieU of Utiea JA/r IS, IS.', 1 : 
has farrifil on a i;enera/ notion Inisiiiess in liuffalo 
■iintt- ISJf'). 




STF.I'HR.S n. tl.1/f\l.\l 

XCWiS 3. 36CUUCtt has built for himself an 

enduring iiiouMUKiit m liuffalo in the beautifiil resi- 
dence district known as Central I'ark, of whii h he is 
the foiiniler. This is a |iart of the city thai ha- md 



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been left to grow u]) at haphazard. It was conceived 
and laid out on a broad plan, with an eye mainly to 
the future. Instead of waiting, a.s has usually been 
the case elsewhere, for the houses to be built and the 
residents to come and determine the character of the 
section, Mr. Bennett planned Central Park from the 




LE\VI:< J IlEXXETT 

first as a high-class residence district. Broad macadam 
streets were laid out, sewer, water, and gas mains 
constructed, and wide, deep lots platted, before any 
building was ])ermitted. Then, whenever a lot was 
sold, a minimum cost was fixed of the house to be 
placed on it. Asa con.sequence, Central Park con- 
tains some of the finest, most modern houses in 
Buffalo, and its general toi^ographical features make 
it one of the acknowledged beauty spots of the city. 
Only a man with strong faith in the future of Buf- 
falo, sound business judgment, and a public spirit 
that refused to yield one iota of a general plan for 
the sake of temjjorary advantage, could have car- 
ried to a successful completion such an enterprise. 



The laying out of the ])ark took four years, and re- 
(|uired lor improvements alone an e.xpenditure of 
nearly 8300,000. 

Like many other prominent citizens of Buffalo, 
Mr. Bennett is not a native of the city. He was a 
country boy, having been born in Schenectady 
county. New York. His education was 
limited to attendance at the district 
school, and when its meager facilities had 
been outgrown, at the larger village school 
of Fort Plain, N. Y. At the age of 
eighteen Mr. Bennett entered business, 
buying a partnership in the grocery firm 
of Chapman, Peek & Co., at P'ulton- 
ville, N. Y. At first he was only the 
"Co.": but three years later Mr. Peek 
withdrew, and the firm name became 
Chapman & Bennett. In two years more 
-Mr. Bennett had become the senior 
partner, the firm embracing Wm. R. 
Chapman, Wm. W. Kline, and Lewis J. 
Bennett ; and the style was changed to 
L. J. Bennett & Co. So it remained 
until 1<S()(;, when Mr. Bennett moved 
to Buffalo. While a resident of Fulton- 
ville, in 1861, Mr. Bennett was appointed 
collector of canal tolls, and held the 
position for two years. In ISti") he was 
elected supervisor for the town of Glen, 
in which the village of Fultonville is 
located. His good standing with his 
townspeople is evidenced by the fact 
that, though he was a Rejniblican, he 
received a majority of 184 votes in a 
town in which the ordinary Democratic 
I majority was (iO. 

I Soon after moving to Buffalo Mr. 

Bennett established a general contracting 
business, in partnership with Andrew 
Spalding and John Hand. This was 
continued for five years. In 1877 he organized the 
Buffiilo Cement Co., Limited. He was elected the 
first president of the compan\-, and still holds the 
position. 

Mr. Bennett is a Universalist in religion and a 
prominent Mason. He holds membership in the 
following orders: Fultonville Lodge, No. o^l, F. 
& A. M. : Johnstown Chapter, No. 71, R. .-V. M.: 
and Apollo Commandery, No. 15, K. T. , at Troy. 
He was a charier member of the Fultonville Lodge, 
and was its first treasurer. Mr. Bennett's long and 
active business career has been varied by only one 
notable vacation, which was taken in 1894-95, when 
he made a tour of the world. While on this trii) he 



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147 



sent home fre<|iient letters, which wcri: jniblished for 
the lifiiffit of his friends. 

PERSOXAL CHRONOL OGY— Lnois Jack- 
son Bennett was horn at Diianeslmrg, X. Y., July 7, 
183S ; K'as educate J in the puhlic schools : conducted a 
f^enera/ store in Fultonville, X. )', 18,'tl-GO ; married 
Mary France/ia S/>aMini; of Johnstincn, N. J'., Oc- 
tober 0, IS-iT ; mm'i-d to liujfalo in ISdd^and engas^ed 
in the business of a contractor ; ort^anized the Buffah 
Cement Co. in 1S7T, and has been president thereof 

ri'er since. 

•♦• 

30bll 3BlOCbCr is a worthy representative of the 
men, more numerous in this country than elsewhere, 
who are the architects of their own fortunes ; who 
rise l>y their own exertions from obscurity to dis- 
tinction, ami attain success in spite of 
adverse circumstances. 

Mr. Blocher's ancestors belong to the 
class known as the " Pennsylvania 
Dutch," who were accustomed to the 
toil of the fields, and disciplined in the 
school of economy and frugality. Mr. 
Blocher's father settled on a farm in 
Cayuga county. New \'ork, in 1S23. In 
addition to farming he furnished supplies 
to the contractors engaged in building 
the Krie canal. This business brought 
him into western New \'ork ; and he was 
so fiivorably impressed with the country 
that he bought a fami at Clarence in Krie 
county. This was the year after John 
Blocher's birth. As most of the farm was 
heavily timbered, young Blocher was 
early enlisted in the work of clearing 
the forest. His life was like that of the 
average farmer's boy, consisting of in- 
cessant labor in summer followed by three 
months" schooling in winter. The school 
was a log hou.se with a big oi)en firei)la('e 
at one end, in which huge logs from the 
surrounding forest were burned. Mr. 
Blocher was but ten years old when his 
father died, leaving him the youngest of 
a family of three children. Life now 
became more difficult for the afflicted 
family, but continual toil and a s]>irit 
of selt'-reliance carried them through. 
When there was no work at home John 
was hired out to neighboring farmers, 
and the sianty wages were carefully saved and liid 
by as a nest egg for the future. 

At twelve years of age John's school education 
ende<l. im' Ik- was apprenticed to tli'' 'lilnring trade. 



In six years he hail a shop of his own. This he 
ultimately turned into a ready made clothing house, 
to which in time he adiled a stock of dry goods, 
groceries, and the other acces.sories of a country 
store. Mr. Blocher had thus c"stablished him.self as 
a prosperous merchant when the war broke out. It 
was haril to leave his business, but ]>atriotism de- 
manded the .sacrifice, anil he enlisted as a volunteer 
soldier in the 74th New N'ork regiment, .\fter a 
year's active service in the field he was honorably 
discharged, and sent home on account of impaired 
health. He was now obliged to pursue an outdoor 
occupation, and for a year he engaged in farming and 
the lumlier business. In this way he regained suffi- 
cient health to warrant his resuming a sedentary 
occujation. He accordingly moved to Buffalo, and 




joH.s ni.ocHr.ff 

began in a small way the manufacture of bool.s and 
shots, in partnership with his brother-in-law, Mr. 
Neff. Their capital was small, and |iairons were yet 
t(i be found ; but untinnL' iiidustrv. dainitless pluck. 



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and strict integrity soon brought the firm a fair 
measure of prosperity. Two years later Mr. Blocher 
o])ened a factory of his own in the Rumsey block on 
Exchange street. Here his business steadily grew, 
until it required several large shops and two hundred 
o[)eratives. .\ noteworthy fact in Mr. Blocher's 
career as an employer, creditable alike to head and 
heart, is that he has never had a .serious disagree- 
ment with his employees. For many years he 
had for a partner his only son, whose early death 
was a terrible blow to his parents. Together 
they had worked harmoniously to build up an 
e.xtensive business, and had accumulated a comfort- 
able fortune. 

Since his son's death Mr. Blocher has retired from 
active business, and now occupies himself chiefly 
with his property at Williamsville, where he has a 
countr\- home, and has laid out pleasure grounds for 
the public. He is president of the Buffalo & Wil- 
liamsville electric railroad, and deals to some extent 
in real estate and loans. His leisure is spent at his 
country home and among his books. Mr. Blocher 
is a well-informed and widely read man, history 
being his favorite study. Those who know him 
intimately are aware that he [jossesses talents which, 
if cultivated at the proper time, would have dis- 
tinguished him. He has the inventive faculty, and 
has taken out many patents. He is a man of original 
ideas. The mausoleum that he erected in Forest 
Lawn cemetery in memory of his son embodies his 
own idea. Nay, he fashioned the models with his 
own hands. He had tried many artists, but all 
tailed either to grasp his idea or to carry it out 
successfully. But Mr. 151ocher knew what he 
wanted, and was determined to have it. Reject- 
ing the ideal creations of the artists, one of which 
re])resented Mr. Blocher as a togaed Roman, he 
sought to sculpture the real man. Without ])revious 
training in art, he worked for months over his 
models, and at last ]jroduced clay figures so perfect 
in design that the marble workers of Italy were 
astonished by the skill displayed. Out of purest 
C'arrara marl)le, famed from classical ages, the forms 
of Mr. Blocher, his wife, and son were hewn just as 
they existed in life, and exactly as Mr. Blocher 
desired. He wished to construct a memorial unii|ue 
in conception, permanent in its ()uality, and calcu- 
lated to convey to remote ages a true representation 
of men and women as they appear to-day, in their 
proper stature, dre.ss, and lineaments. In this design 
he has admiraiily succeeded. 

Mr. Blocher is a Republican in politics, but always 
votes for the best man. In 189() he celebrated the 
fiftieth vear of his long and happv wedded life. He 



is a member of the Delaware Avenue Methodist 
Episcopal church, and in philanthropic work is a 
generous and cheerful giver. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— John Blocher 
Tcias born at Sctpio, N. Y.,July 22, 1825 : was edu- 
cated in district schools ; conducted a general store at 
IVilliamsTillc, N. ¥., 1851-^)1 ; married Elizabeth 
Neff of Williamsz'ille April 20, 181f6 : enlisted in 
the Union army in 1861, and served one year ; estab- 
lished a boot and shoe factory in Buffalo in ISO'S, and 
has been connected vith that industry since. 



IPatriCl? CrOUiU has achieved distinction, not 
only as a preacher and a theologian, but also as an 
orator, an essayist, a professor, and an editor. Few 
men in Buftalo are better known or more po])ular, at 
home and abroad. 

Father Cronin is a native of Ireland, and possesses 
in large measure the warm-hearted generosity and 
readiness to help those in need which are character- 
istic of his countrymen. He was born in Limerick 
county, near the banks of the Shannon, Ireland's most 
famous river ; and his early education was received 
in the .schools of Adare, in his native county. When 
he was fourteen years old, he came to the United 
States with his father, his mother having died years 
before. His college training was received at St. 
Louis University, and from there he went to St. 
\'incent's College, at Cape (Jirardeau, Mo., to pre- 
pare for the ministry. He was ordained to the 
priesthood in December, 1862, by Archbishop Ken- 
rick, in the cathedral at St. Louis, and served for the 
next eight years under his episcopal juri.sdiction, first 
as a.ssistant in the Church of the Annunciation, St. 
Louis, then as pastor of a church in Hannibal, Mo., 
and finally as jiastor of the Church of the Immaculate 
Conception,' St. Louis. 

In I.S70 Father Cronin was called to occupy the 
chair of Latin and belles-lettres in the Seminary of 
Our Lady of .Xngels, now Niagara I'niversity, at 
Suspension Bridge, N. Y. His marked literary 
ability and general culture rendered him well fitted 
for this position. While there he made his first ven- 
ture in journalism, a field in which he was to dis- 
tinguish himself later. He became editor of the 
college pa])er, which was printed in the institution, 
and known as the jNiaxara Index. 

In October, 1873, Father Cronin went to Buffalo. 
Bishoi) Ryan had begun work there five years before 
as head of the diocese, and Father Cronin became 
one of his most valued and trusted priests. I-'or 
nearly a (juarter of a century they livetl imder the 
.same roof, where under the guidance of his bislu)|) 
l'"ather Cronin fountl ins|)ir:ilion for his work. 



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During all ihat time l-'ather Croniii ha.s l)j(.-n editor 
of the Catlwlii Union ami Timi-s, the official organ of 
the diocese of Buflalo, and in that ca))acity his literary 
talents have had full scope. He has also made good 
use of the 0|)|)ortunities thus afforded to ailvance the 
cause of Home Rule for Ireland, so dear to the hearts 
of |>atriotic Irishmen the world over. 
He has taken an active ]>art in this agita- 
tion, and was the first vice |)resiilent of 
the I, anil League in the I'nited States. 
His services in this connection have 
won for him the enthusiastic friendship 
.ind admiration of his fellow -(ountrymcn 
aliroad. 

An account of Father L'ronin's lite 
would be incomplete that made no men- 
lion of his work as a poet. Though he 
has never ( ollected his ])roductions in a 
volmne, he hits written and printed many 
poems that give evidence of decideil 
tiilent. There is little doubt that, had 
he l)een free to devote his time to ihi.-^ 
pursuit, he would have won lasting fame 
as a poet. He has also delivered lectures 
and addres.ses on many sulijects in many 
places. Perhaps the most famous are the 
oration at the O'Connell centenary at 
Detroit, a speech at the Columltian 
World's Fair, and an address before the 
New York State Har .\.s.sociation at 
.Mhany. In June, 1H!(1, l-'ather C'ronin re- 
ceived the degree of 1,1.. D. from the Uni- 
versity of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind. 

I'iiRSOXA L CUR ONOL OGY— 
I'lttrick Cronin H'tis horn <// Pallaskrnry, 
l.imcricli county, Ireliind, Maicli 1. 1S-1'> : 
itimf to /lie United States in IS^f) : nuts 
i-itiicated at the St. Louis University anit 
at St. I'ineent's Colle^i^e, Caf>e Giran/eaii, 
.\fo.: was oiiiaincii to the f>riestliool at St. Louis. 
.Mo., in 1SG2, andivas connected witli various {>aiisiies 
in that state until 1870 ; leas professor in the Seminary 
of Our Laily of Angels, Su.</>en.\ion Briilt^e, N. J'., 
lSlO-74 : has been eilitor of the " Catholic Union 
and Times," Buffalo, since 187 J. 



30l3U CUUIICCU lias demonstrated what |jerse- 
vcrance in study anil an honorable ambition can 
accomplish in this country, where a fair field is given 
to their pos,ses.sor. Horn in Ireland, he came to 
.■\meric a when a boy, and, like many others of his 
nationality, embraced the rich o|)portunity here 
aflbrded to rise in the world by dint of industry and 
talent. He obtained his elementarv education in 



|)rivale schools in Ireland, and after coming to the 
I'niteil States attended for a time the .Mbion ( N. Y. ) 
.\cademy. Having secured all the preliminary train- 
ing his limited means could alTord, he settleil down 
to the stuily of law, was duly aduntted to praiti< e, 
and at once, in Januarv, l>>74. opened an ofticc at 




i:{ run K I A-o.\/.\ 

.Mbion. During his term of legal i lerkship, and 
for several years after his admission to the bar, 
.Mr. Cunneen was clerk of the board of supervisors 
for Orleans county. He also served one term a.-, 
collector of taxes of .Mbion. .\side from these 
positions he ha.s never held any political office, 
though he was twice nominatetl by the Democratic 
jKirty for district attorney. As an evidence of his 
[wpularity, it may be remarked that on the .second 
oc<a.-iion he came within twenty-six votes of an 
election in a county where the usual Republican 
majority was over one thou.sand. 

For sixteen years .Mr. Cimneen |)racticed his pro- 
fession at .Mbion. His learning, industr>. and 
integrity drew to him a numerous and inipurtani 



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AfEX OF XEir yORf:—\]-ESTERX SECr/OX 



clientage. He recovered the largest verdict ever 
won by a lawver in that county, amounting to nearly 
8500,000, in a case tried in the United States Cir- 
cuit Court for the northern district of New York. 
His success in jury trials has been exceptional in the 
record of cases won. 




JO/i\ CUNXF.EX 

In 1890 Mr. Cunneen sought a wider field for the 
exercise of his legal talents, and settled in Buffalo. 
In company with Charles V. Taber, \\'illiam F. 
Sheehan, and Edward E. Coatsworth, he formed a 
law partnership under the firm name of Taber, 
Sheehan, Cunneen & Coatsworth. Two of his 
partners were more or less absorbed in public affairs, 
and a great share of the work devolved upon Mr. 
Cunneen. In I'SlUthe firm wa.s dissolved, ami Mr. 
Cunneen became the senior member of the firm of 
Cunneen & Coatsworth. His well-merited succe.ss 
gained at .MI)ion has followed him to Buffalo, and he 
has appeared in many of the most important causes in 
Erie county during the past five years, and is recog- 
nized as a lawyer of marked ability. 



.\part from his chosen profession Mr. Cimneen has 
displayed a taste and bent for journalism. While at 
.•\lbion he conducted successfully a weekly paj^er, and 
he has on many occasions been a contributor to the 
press. He has thus been an active factor in two profes- 
sions, and both have naturally led him into the field 
of politics. Law and journalism are the 
most frequented roads to public position 
and political prominence. Mr. Cunneen 
has displayed an interest in politics in the 
best sen.se of the word. .\ strong adherent 
of the Democratic party, he has been 
active among its leaders on the stump, in 
his paper, and in conventions, and he is 
recognized as an honest, astute, and inde- 
fatigable worker, .seeking not his own 
preferment but the success of his cause. 
He is a member of the Democratic state 
committee, and one of the chief men of 
his party in Buffalo. In social life he is 
held in high esteem, and is a member of 
the Buffalo and EUicott clubs. The 
duties of an exacting profession, how- 
ever, have left him little time for pursuits 
and pastimes not connected in some 
degree with his life-work — the study 
and practice of law. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— 
John Cunneen luas born at Enis, Ireland, 
May 18, 18J,8 : came to the United States 
in 18(il, and settled in Albioti, N. V.; 
was admitted to the bar at Rochester in 
187 J). ; married Elizal>eth E. Bass of 
Albion January 26, 1876 ; practiced law 
in Albion, 1874-90, and has practiced in 
Buffalo since 1890. 



(Bauson S>CpeW is a genuine Buf- 
falonian, having been born and educated 
in the Queen City, and having lived there always. 
He attended the public schools of Buffalo, and 
graduated from the high school in l.S,S4. He was 
president of his class, and was also class orator. 
.Additional evidence of Mr. Depew's popularity is 
afforded l)y his election, in the year of his gradua- 
tion, to the office of vice president of the High 
School .Association, which numbers over two thousand 
memliers. 

Without resort to either college or law school, .Mr. 
Depew soon after his graduation from the high school 
entered the law office of Creene, McMillan & Cluck 
as a student. This firm was one of the foremost at 
the Erie-county bar, and hardly any ofifice could have 
been found th.it was better fitted to train and instruct 



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a student in general and cori)Oration law. Mr. 
(Ireene, one meml)er of the firm, afterward became 
leading counsel of the I^ke Shore & Michigan 
Southern railway : Mr. Cluck ha.s long lectured on 
the law of corporations in the Huffalo I .aw School ; 
and the firm as a whole is known far and wide for 
its vigilant and able guardianship of large cor|iora- 
tion interests. Thus Mr. Depew had an unusually 
fme opjiortunity to become minutely and thoroughly 
acquainted with railroad and general cor|x)ration 
law. This department of legal science he had 
determined to make his s])ecially, and the connection 
with (ireene, McMillan &: (lluck was ( orrespontlingly 
valuable to him. He made rapid i)rogres.s in his 
legal studies under the favorable conditions noted, 
and in 1XS7 he was admitted to the bar at Buffalo. 
He ( ontinued in the office that had serveil 
hisstuilent i)urposes so well, and in IWtO 
his fidelity and ability were rewarded by 
admission into the firm with which he 
had so long l>een a.s.sociateii. The style 
then became McMillan. Cihuk, I'ooley & 
DeiKiw, and the firm continues to-day as 
it was then organized. The legal in- 
terests of some of the largest corixirations 
in the country are committed to this 
firm — such cor|)orationsas the New York 
Central & Hudson River railroad, the 
West Shore railway, the lake Shore & 
.\li( higan Southern railway, the .Michigan 
Central railway, the Rome, Watertown iS: 
Ogdensburg railway, the Western Union 
Telegraph Co., and the Kipiitable Life 
.■\s.surance Co. of New York city. 

The same earnestness, [)erseverance. 
and faithfulness that marked .Mr. l)e|)ew's 
early career at school have Ijeen charac- 
teristic of the man, and have been 
embodied in his professional work. .M- 
ihough still a young man and only 
recently started on his career, he may 
confidently l>e regarded as one of the 
coming legal lights of western New York. 
Two relatives, whose names he bears, 
were long leaders of the lar in New 
York state, anil in the careers of his 
cousin, John Canson, and of his uncle, 
Chaunccy .M. I)e|)ew, there is much to 
encourage ami sjuir him onward in his 
profession. 

Mr. Depew is a memWr of St. Paul's K])isco])al 
Church: of .■\ncient landmark Lodge, No. 441, 
1-. iV- .\. M. : of .\dytum Chapter, Royal .\rch 
Ma.sons ; of the Sons of the .\merican Revolution ; 



and of the Buffalo, Saturn, Liberal, and Ellicott 
ilul)s. He was elected a director of the Buffalo 
Library in 1M1I2 and again in IHKo, receiving on each 
occasion the highest vote of anv of the candidates. 
PEfiSOX.tL CHROXOL O G Y— G.umm 
Depno was horn at Buffalo March U, ISIIO ; 7t>as 
fiUicalfJ in thf public schools, ami t^railualfil from the 
hij^h school in ISSi : stuilicil Uno in the office of 
Greene, .\fcMillan ^ Gluck in Buffalo, anil was ail- 
niilteil to the far in ISSl : became a member of the 
firm of McMillan, Gluck, Pooley or- Depew in ISOO ; 
marrieil Grace /•'. Gooilyear of Buffalo No7<ember ].'>. 
1S!>.>,. 

SnmUCl O. IDorr 'omes of a lineage that in- 
sures to him public spirit and devotion to civic duty. 




GAXSOX DEPEW 



The name Dorr is doubtless of Cierman origin, but 
in the seventeenth century a representative of the 
family lived in the western |>art of Kngland. whence 
Kdward Dorr came to Boston somewhere about 1(!70. 



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^n■:x of XEir vof'iK— wester. \ sect/o.\ 



Dr. Dorr's middle name is ihal of one of Connecti- 
cut's oldest families, several members of which held 
the office of governor. Edmund Dorr, one of Dr. 
Dorr's ancestors, moved to Connecticut in the early 
l)art of the eighteenth century, and there married 
into the Criswold fomilv. .\nother of his ancestors 




SAMUEL a. DORK 

was Captain Matthew Dorr of revolutionary lame, 
who did heroic service at the battle of Saratoga, and 
whose regiment was officially praiseil by (Jeneral 
(iates. A son of Captain Matthew Dorr, named 
Samuel (Jriswold, was the American inventor who 
patented a wheel of knives, which, in connection 
with the spinning jenny, was destined to revolution- 
ize the business of cloth manufacture. This son, 
while introducing his machinery in England, died of 
Ijoison jiresumably administered by jxTsons bent on 
frustrating any improvement that would decrease the 
number of jteople employed in cloth manufacturing. 
Dr. Dorr, like his father, has been a business man 
and a physician. He was born at Dansville, N. Y., 
and received a liberal education at Xunda ( N. Y. ) 



Academy and at the .Mbion State Academy in Wis- 
consin. I'pon his graduation from the latter institu- 
tion he returned to New York state, and ran a flour 
mill at South Dansville, which he had bought of his 
father. Not being of age, Mr. Dorr was unable to 
execute legal papers, and such complications arose 
that he wound up the business, after 
having assumed obligations amounting to 
over 810,000, every penny of which he 
ultimately paid to his creditors. When 
the t.'ivil War liroke out, and President 
Lincoln called for 7"), 000 troops, Mr. 
Dorr enlisted within forty hours there- 
after. Unfortunately he was prevented 
from going to the front by an attack 
of diphtheria, which left him an invalid 
for a year. In 18(j."{ he was appointed 
bv (lovernor Seymour recruiting agent 
for half of Livingston county, a position 
in which he rendered valuable service 
during the rest of the war. 

After the war Mr. Dorr went to the oil 
regions in Pennsylvania, and engaged in 
the business of refining oil, in partnershi]j 
with Charles Twining, at Oil Creek. 
The cooperage business soon proving 
more attractive, they established works 
for the manufacture of barrels at Water- 
ford, Penn. .Mercantile life, however, 
was not to Mr. Dorr's taste, and the 
force of heredity as.serted itself. He 
went to Buffalo, and matriculated in the 
medical department of the University of 
Buffalo in LS?-'), receiving his doctor's 
degree two years later. Once established 
in the practice of his ])rofession. Dr. 
Dorr won quick success, for he possesses 
in addition to medical knowledge a kindly 
disposition that is in itself a tonic to the 
afllicled. During the administrations of mayors 
Brush and Cleveland he held the position of police 
surgeon. Xo ]ihysician is better known or more 
highly esteemed in the neighborhood in which he 
lives than Dr. Dorr. He is a member of all the 
leading medical societies in the state, and for years 
has been a consulting jfhysician at one of Buffalo's 
largest hospitals. 

As a political factor Dr. Dorr is a power in his 
community, and is invariably found with the active 
forces of good government. Two things have con- 
stituted his political creed — the al)olition of slavery 
and the purification of politics. The former he has 
lived to see accomplished ; the latter is being 
wrought out at the iireseiit time, slowly it is true. 



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l)ut no Ifss (.crtainly. I If al)horri-il slavery as a 
man ; as an American he abhors political tlishonesty. 
He hxs been an active Re])iiblican from the days of 
I'remont. Lincoln was the idol of his life, and the 
(lictiirc of the martyred President graces the most 
conspicuous wall of his living room. While a resi- 
dent of Waterford, I'enn., he was burgess of the 
town, and organized its first fire de|)artment. In 
Ittittalo he has been elected sii|)ervisor, and was once 
nominated for councilman. In IHXH he was < hosen 
an alternate delegate to the Republican national 
convention at Chicago. He is a stanch protection- 
ist. In tact, adherence to that iloctrine may be 
called a family trait, resulting |)erhaps from the 
ilestruction of his grandfather's cloth factory by the 
rei)eal of a tariff law soon after the war of IXl'i. 

Dr. Dorr is a trustee of the Sentinel Methodist 
Church, a member of the Masonic fra- 
ternity, and of many benevolent and 
literary societies. 

PERSOXAL CIIRONOLOG Y— 
Siimiifl Grisii'oU Dorr riuis horn at Daiis- 
villf, N. )'., May SO, IS^O : 7.'</.f ediinUfil 
ii/ XitiiJa ( y V. K ) Acaiteiiiy <///</ Alhioii 
Slate Academy in H'/si-onun : condticteil 
a fioiir-millini^ Imsiness at Soiit/i Dan.iTi'/U, 
X. y. , rS'>fi-04 : married Rel>ea-a Brad- 
ley o/ Damville July 7, IS'J.'f : en^^axed 
in oil refining and in cooperage in Penn- 
ixhania, lf<(>->—~2 : graduated from the 
medical department of the Universitx o/ 
Buffalo in 1S7'>, and has practiced medicine 
in Buffalo since. 



Gbarles jFrcucb S»unbar -i^ 

serves the title m • I'alhliiulcr" in 
recognition of his great services to com- 
merce and navigation. He exemplifies 
the truth and power of hereditary in- 
thience. It is no mere coincidence that 
men of his blood invented and oi)erated 
the first steam dredging apfaratus with a 
revolving crane, and that he gave to the 
world the first successfiil submarine drill- 
ing mathine. Deep harbors and < hannels 
are to water traffic what iniLssive iron 
bridges are to railway transportation. If 
there were no way to dee|ien shallow 
places, modern ves.sels coidd no more 
enter some of our chief i)orts than could 
a mogid engine cross an old-fashioned wooden 
bridge : and since large vessels and heavy engines 
are now a necessity of commerce, the man uho 
tacilitates their u.se does a notable service. 



Mr. Dunbar received a common-school education, 
su|)|ilemented by a high-school course of a \ear or 
more ; and his whole life has been devoted to study 
and learning in the practical school of affairs. His 
knowledge of the dredging t)usiness began early, for 
he was only fourteen years old when he was fireman 
on a dredge engaged in digging the Des Jardins 
canal in Ontario, where his father was foreman. His 
father having turneil his attention to railroad con- 
stniction, young Lhinbar worked for him for several 
years on the Utica & Watertown, the Hamilton & 
Toronto, and the Crand Trimk roads. He then 
went to Mis.souri, and heljK-d build the first railroad 
west of the Missi.ssip])i river — the Hannibal & St. 
|ose])h. He was subsequently employed in running 
the preliminary line of the St. Josejjh iV Coum il 
liluffs railroad. With this rich ex|»erience he went 




I iiM\'i.Es iKESfH m:\ii.t/c 

to Ituffalo in 1.*>(I(), where his father was ( learing nut 
the entrance to Huffalo creek. Since that time his 
career has iieen sulistantially the history of deep- 
water navigation. 



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MEN OF NEW VORK—llESTERN SECriON 



In 1863 Mr. Dunbar formed a partnershi]) in ihe 
dredging business with Franklin Lee, under the firm 
name of Lee & Uunbar, by the temis of which Mr. 
iJunbar was to have charge of the mechanical part of 
the work. This firm wa.s instrumental in deepening 
the channels and harbors at Buffalo, Dunkirk, Erie, 




GUST.ir rLEISCH.\fA.\.\ 

Conneaut, Ashtabula, Sandusky, Toledo, and Port 
Colborne on Lake Erie; St. Clair Flats, Port 
Huron, Bay City, and Au Sable on Lake Huron ; 
Wilson, Big Sodus, Little Sodus, Pultneyville, 
Oswego, and Toronto on Lake Ontario ; and Og- 
densburg on the St. Lawrence. The firm had, in 
addition, important contracts on the Welland and 
Murray canals. 

It was at Port Colborne that Mr. Dunbar per- 
fected his drilling machine. He had taken the con- 
tract to deepen the mouth of the Welland canal. 
The undertaking was regarded as .so hazardous that 
many of his friends jjredicted ruin for him ; and the 
Canadian government, doubting his ability to fulfill 
the contract, demanded a penalty bond of S'25,00(l. 



With the aid of the new invention, however, the 
contract was satisfactorily performed. Then Mr. 
Dimbar contracted with the LTnited States govern- 
ment to excavate the Lime Kiln Crossing at Detroit. 
This undertaking was likewise most formidable, and 
a bond of 8200,000 was required from the contractor. 
The work was much retarded and en- 
dangered by navigation, and retiuired 
twelve years for its completion. Mr. 
Dunbar next e.xcavated and deepened the 
Haylake Channel for a distance of over 
two miles, securing a depth of twenty-one 
feet instead of nine as before. In short, it 
may be said that Mr. Dunbar has left his 
mark on the principal ports of the (ireat 
Lakes, and has profoundly influenced the 
commercial welfare of many cities. 

The success and usefulness of Mr. 
Dunbar's invention have been acknowl- 
edged by engineers of the highest charac- 
ter. Oeneral O. M. Poe made the inven- 
tion the subject of a paper read before the 
American Society of Engineers, and in a 
letter to Mr. l^unbar's son said, " I regard 
his [Mr. Dunbar's] adaptation of the 
method of drilling and blasting rock under 
water as one of the great feats of modern 
engineering." 

Mr. Dunbar retired from the dredging 
business in 1895, and now enjoys a well- 
earned leisure. He finds much plea.sure 
in literature, and is the author of a drama 
that was brought out in Buffalo in 1884, 
and was favorably received by the publit:. 
While not active in politics, he is a firm 
Republican, having cast his first vote for 
Abraham Lincoln. During his residence 
at F>ie, Penn., he served one term of two 
years in the common council. He has 
devoted much time and attention to trotting horses, 
and is well known on the circuit. He has a large 
circle of friends, to whom he is endeared by his 
worth, and freedom from ostentation. 

P E R S O NA L C 'HR ON 01. OGY— Charles 
French Dunbar was horn at Boston, Mass. , January 
0, 1839 ; was educated in public schools ; married 
Mrs. Lucille De Wolf Bcrston of Pelham, Ont. , Oc- 
tober .-iH, 181 Jl ; carried on a dredging business in 
Buffalo, 18i>0-!)Jt : invented a submarine drilling 
machine in 1873. 



(3U3taV jflCiSCbmanU is one of the many 
sons of the old world who have attained prosperity 
in this new land, and have contributed their full 



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share to the growth and development of their 
adopted coiintr)-. 

Mr. Fleischmann was horn less than fifty years ago 
in Vienna, Austria. He lame to the I'nited .'>latesat 
the age of sixteen, and obtained employment with 
the tirm of C"a.soni & Isola in .New V'ork city as a 
marble cutter and designer, at the same time attending 
night schools and Cooper Institute, and pursuing his 
studies in mathematics and drawing to fit him for the 
profession he had adopted. Me w;is obliged to al)an- 
don this vocation, however, on account of ill health ; 
and in IfSGI) he went to Cincinnati, and entered the 
firm of tlafT, Fleischmann & Co., of which his 
brothers, .Ma.ximilian and Charles, were members. 
There he thoroughly learned the business of a distil- 
ler and yeast manufacturer. When he had perfecleil 
his knowledge of this industry, and was ready to 
establish himself in business, Mr. Fleisch- 
mann began to consider the <iuestion of 
location. The BulTalo of twenty years 
ago was a different place from the city of 
to-day, as regards both population and 
commercial prosperity ; imt the elements 
of her future greatness were there, and it 
was not difficult for a farsighted and saga- 
cious man to appreciate her superior 
advantages. .Mr. P'leischmann accord 
ingly went to Buffalo, and engaged in the 
distilling business under the firm name 
of Frost & Co. A year later Mr. Frost 
retired, and .Mr. Fleischmann forined a 
|jartnership with F. .N. Cook, umler the 
style of F. .N. Cook & Co. This connec- 
tion lasted until 18!i:{, when Mr. Fleisch- 
mann bought out Mr. Cook's interest in 
the business, and organized the Huflalo 
Distilling Co., of which he has since been 
the proprietor. 

The successful business man of the 
present day is able to < arry on an amount 
of business that would have been deemed 
entirely impossible by even the most 
active man of half a century ago. It is 
not sur|)rising, therefore, that Mr. Fleisch- 
mann is president of the .Meadville 
( Penn. ) Distilling Co., and of the Fron- 
tier Klevating Co. of Buffalo, in addition 

to his ownership of the BulTalo Distilling 

Co. He also held, for .some years, the 

presidency of the .Mer/ Univers;il Fx- 

tractor and Constniction Co.; but this position he 

resigned in favor of his brother, when the main office 

of the company was moved from Buffalo to New York 

citv. 



.Mr. I'leischmann is a member of Meadville Lodge, 
B. 1'. (). K. His chief interests are now in Buffalo, 
and he is the owner of some fine residence pro|)erty 
in that city. His greatest recreation from the en- 
grossing cares of business is in hunting, to which 
he is passionately devoted. He is a meml)er of the 
Adirondack League Club, and brings home .several 
fine deer each fall as trojjhies of his marksmanship. 

PERSOXAL CUR OXOI. OG ) — 6// > A/,- J-lasth- 
mannwa-i bitrn at I'iennii, Amtriii, Manlt ,'J, ISiiO ; 
came to lltf United States in 1860 : married Emilie 
Robertson of Nno York eity Aitpist J4. ISSO : has 
been engai^ed in the distinim; ftusiness in Buffalo sinee 

is: 7. 

]E^^val•^ C. 1I.">a\Vh£t, ihe son of Thomas S. 
Hawks, IS a lawyer ol standing and a man of business 




EDUAKl) C. HAWKS 

affairs. In the branch of the law covering real estate 
he is an especially well-c|ualified counselor. He has 
confined himself almost exclusively to office practice 
in recent years, and to the care of his jx-rsonal 



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J/fi'A' OF AEIV YORK—U'ESTEhW SECT/OX 



interests, and is rarely seen in court. He has, how- 
ever, figured in important litigation, and as city 
attorney of Buffalo was engaged in several exciting 
and momentous contests. As a trial lawyer he was 
an adversary at once full-armed and unfaltering, and 
when convinced that he was in the right nothing 
could move him from the position he had taken. 
But the continual struggle of the court room, the de- 
lays in bringing causes to trial, and the disproportion 
of the i.ssue to the time and labor involved, have 
made the office of coimselor more attractive to most 
lawyers in these Inisy days than the pleading of cases at 
the bar. 

A Buffalonian by birth and education, Mr. Hawks 
has taken more than ordinary interest and pride in 
the growth and development of the city. He gradu- 
ated from the Central High School, and studied law 
in the office of Sprague & Fillmore, then one of the 
leading law firms of western New York. For seven 
years he was managing clerk of their large legal liusi- 
ness, and had entire charge of the real -estate transac- 
tions of the Erie County Savings Bank, a client of 
the firm. After this thorough and extensive ex- 
l)erience, Mr. Hawks opened an office of his own. 

While never a seeker for political office a.s a means 
of livelihood, Mr. Hawks in the early part of his 
legal career had, as nearly every energetic lawyer at 
some time has, an ambition for public life. U.sually 
a short experience in that direction cures the aspirant, 
and sends him back to his profession a wiser if not a 
sadder man. Mr. Hawks held the office of city 
attorney two years, and frankly admits that that 
sufficed him so far as public office was concerned. 
Yet it is just such men who ought to be in office, for 
they have the welfare of the community at heart, and 
discharge their duties conscientiously. Mr. Hawks's 
term a.s city attorney was marked by a distinguished 
service to Buffalo. A generous c:ouncil had \oted to 
sell a railroad corporation the South Channel land 
for S12,000, and directed the city attorney to facili- 
tate the transfer. Mr. Hawks, who knew the prop- 
erty to be worth far more than the price named, 
demurred to the authority of the council over him, 
regarding himself as the attorney of the city, and not 
of one of its departments. Consequently he refused to 
effect the transfer. rhereu|)on the common council 
attempted to oust him from office on written charges, 
and he was formally tried before Mayor Brush. The 
mayor dismissed the charges as entirely unfoimded. 
It may be added that the railroad company did not 
get the jjroperty for §12,000, but paid the city, for 
less than half of it, §150,000. 

Private affairs have engros.sed .Mr. Ilawks's atten- 
tion in recent vuars, and he has become largelv 



interested in land improvement and grain elevators. 
Richmond avenue may almost be .said to have been 
laid out and improved by him. He was one of the 
builders of the International elevator at Black Rock, 
and is interested in grain elevators elsewhere. In 
business he has the same courage and backbone tliat 
he displayed as a city official. When the forgeries 
and ra.scalities of the Sherman brothers threatened to 
ruin several Buffalo banks and permanently injure the 
city's grain commerce, Mr. Haw'ks with two asso- 
ciates assumed a liability amounting to more than 
half a million dollars, and thus re-established the con- 
fidence of shipjjers and financial houses in the 
integrity and soundness of the local elevators. Mr. 
Hawks has immense land holdings in Massachusetts, 
owning five miles of sea beach at West (Jloucester. 
In connection with his property there, he has given 
much thought to road building, and published a series 
of articles on "Good Roads and How to Build Them." 

Mr. Hawks is prominent in many of Buffalo's 
literary and art societies, and is an honorary member 
of the Art Students' League — an unusual distinction. 
He is a Fellow of the Buffalo Society of .\rtists, and 
a member of the Merchants' Exchange. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G Y— £<haar,/ Clin- 
ton Hawks was born at Buffalo July 26, ISJfU : 
graduated from the Central High School in 1865 ; 
loas admitted to the Imr in 1869 ; was city attorney, 
1880—81 : married, on June 6, 1879, Amanda Smith 
of Buffalo, a lineal descendant of Richard Smith, Jr. , 
the ennan patentee of Narragansett, Rhode Island, 
Pi 1^1 : has practiced law in Buffalo since 1871. 



IbettrS ¥fllaglauC> ti\\\, the son of Martha P. 
(Hall) Hill and of Dyer Hill, a member of the 
\'ermont state legislature in 1849-50, is a country 
boy who has risen to prominence a.s a lawyer and 
legislator. He was born in the Green Mountain 
State, where he passed his youth on his father's 
farm. He took a four years' classical course at the 
I'niversity of Vermont, graduating therefrom witli 
honors in 1876. He recei\ed the degree of .\. 1!. 
at this time, and was admitted to membership in the 
Phi Beta Kappa society. Four years later his alma 
mater conferred u|)on him the degree of A. M. 

.\fter his graduation Mr. Hill was jjrincipal of the 
academy at Swanton, \t., for two years, and then 
accepted a similar position at Chateaugay, N. Y. 
During his career as a teacher he organized a college 
preparatory course in the academies at Swanton and 
Chateaugay, and fitted several classes for college. 
His standing among educators was recognized 1)\ 
his election to a term as president of the Iranklin 
Comitv (N. Y. ) Teachers' Association. 



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While he was occupied in teachin},', Mr. Hill 
devoted his leisure hours to the study of law, and 
successfully [lassed the New \'ork state liar examina- 
tion in 1SH4. In that year he moved to BuflTalo, 
and hecamea member of the law firm of Andrews \' 
Hill. As a lawyer his career has lieen marked li\ 
unusual skill in the con<luct of lej,'al luisi- 

ness. He has also taken an active interest 

in civic affairs, and is among the best 
known of Huffalo's younger generation of 
public men. He has the ijualities that 
bring success in the arena of political 
activity. 

In the fall of IH!).', .Mr. Hill was electeil 
a ilelegate to the New York constitutional 
convention, and served in that body on 
the suffrage, education, and civil-service 
committees. He was an able and a useful 
member of the convention, and was 
selected as one of the committee of (\\x- 
to determine the order of business, and 
arrange the calendar of the convention. 
He foniiulated several of the amendmeiit> 
that are now a |)art of the funtlamental 
law of the state. To Mr. Hill is due in 
large part the amendment for imi)roving 
canals. He organized sentiment in its 
favor, made one of the princijial sjieechcs 
on the subject, and after the convention 
had taken adverse action on the projiosi- 
tion, he secured a reconsideration of the 
matter and the i>as.sage of the amendment. 

One of Mr. Hill's most eloipient and 
scholarly s|>eeches in the convention de- 
fended the use of the Niagara river tor 
|)Ower purposes. Among other things, he 
said . 

'• riic diapason of Nia};ara i> lH.'in|; tran.'^K'ilol 
intii the hum of industr)-. The music of n.iturc 
will continue, while the factories of Ittin'alo, Rochester, and the 
smaller citie* of western New Vork pulsate in unison with the 
waters of the i;reat cataract. Shall Niaj^ara remain liut the 
renilezvous of |H>cts and wedding tourists, and its waters lie 
permiltcil Mo llow on unvexed to the sea,' or shall they he 
utilized for the (■immI of man? 'I'lie l>eauties of Niagara will 
remain, ihc chann of the thousands who visit it, although its 
[Hitent energies Iw conserved to conlriliutc to the welfare of 
humanity. Hitherto, Niagara has s|>ent its great energies in 
vain, and now that the time has come when they may lie made 
to pmpel the wheels of industry, it is profxised to prohiliil the 
Letter by constitutional inhilulion. Why not prohibit the use 
• •f the waters of the ilud.'on, the Mohawk, the .Suv|uehanna, 
or Ihc ."St. I„iwrence? Why not erect a harrier lu the use of 
ail the waters of the state .' Why not deny to commerce .iccess 
to Lake < hamplain. Lake Krie, or the inlanil lakes of the slate ? 
Natural streams of water, ever since the morning of lime, have 
liecM made to ser^•e the pur^K>ses of man The legislature 



nuiy l>e entrusted to grant only such franchiiurs for the iksc of 
the waters of .Niagara river as will lie for the inleresi of the 
|ieople of the whole slate." 

.Mr. Hill's services in the convention and on the 
stiMn|i were noteworthy and diilv appreciateil, for 
they led to his nomination and election to the legis- 



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lature of 1«!M! by a plurality of 4,«ti(l, the largest 
Republican jiliirality received by any memlier of the 
New \'ork as.sembly in that year. The press of 
Itiiffalo strongly sup|)orted his candid.icy, declaring 
him to be " the |)eer of any man that ever went to 
the a.s.seml>ly from Krie county." Mr. Hill w.os 
assigned to the committee on affairs of ( ities and the 
committee on canals. The latter a.ssignment w.xs 
|iarticularly a|ipropriate, becau.se Mr. Hill had 
strongly advocated, in IMK."), the measure whereby 
the state ap|>ro])riated S!i, (Mill, (Hid for canal improve- 
ment. He has shown himself to be an earni-st 
legislator, .seeking at all times courageously to rep- 
resent the interests and to record the wishes of 
his constituents, and strenuous in th>- adv<«a( v of 



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measures favoring Buffalo and its expanding com- 
merce. Mr. Hill is an active Republican, and 
for several years has been a member of the Erie- 
county Republican committee, and of the Buffalo 
Republican League. He is a believer in home 
rule for cities, and spoke ably on that subject in 




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the constitutional convention. He is also an 
earnest promoter of the commercial interests of the 
state. 

Mr. Hill has done much work of a literary charac- 
ter, and has delivered many addresses of an educa- 
tional or historical nature. Especially noteworthy 
is his address, delivered before the Buffalo Historical 
Society, on the " Development of Constitutional 
Law in New York." Mr. Hill is- much given to the 
philosophic study of the development of civil insti- 
tutions, and this address, covering the subject from 
the ancient Roman codification in the Twelve Tables 
to the latest aspects of organic law in the Empire 
State, shows deep research and wide learning. Mr. 
Hill is recording secretary of the Buffalo Historical 



Society, and a member of the State Bar Association 
and of the L'niversity Club of Buffalo. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Henry Way- 
land Hill was born at Isle La Motte, Vt. , November 
IS, 1853 ; prepared for college in the public schools, 
and graduated from the University of Vermont in 1876 : 
teas principal of Sioanton ( Vt. ) Academy, 
1877-79, and of Chateaugay (iV. K ) 
Academy, 1879-83 : married Miss Harriet 
Augusta Smith of Sioanton August 11, 
1880 ; 7i'as admitted to the bar at Albany 
in 1884 •' ^'^f elected member of the New 
York constitutional convetition in 1893, and 
of the New York assembly in 1895 ; has 
practiced law in Buffalo since 188 Jf. 



]£5warC> 3. 1F3imj5tOn has had a 

unique experience. He was born in the 
United States, and educated in England, 
where his mother's family resided. His 
original intention was to pursue a literary 
occupation, and he was ambitious to win 
distinction in the field of journalism. 
In early years he showed a predilection 
for books and study, and for several 
years taught school in Liverpool. But 
fate had in store for him a decidedly 
practical career, and to-day he is a mem- 
ber of the firm of Hingston & Woods, 
celebrated in Buffalo and all lake ports 
as skillful dredgers and contractors for 
foundation and sewer work. 

Thomaston, Maine, was Mr. Kingston's 
birthplace, but his childhood and youth 
were spent in England, where he attended 
the National School at Liverpool. Having 
returned to America at eighteen years of 
age, and settled in Buffalo, he concluded 
to follow the advice of his ship-building 
uncle, and learn the latter's trade. In this occupa- 
tion he spent five years, and the experience thus 
acquired has proved of distinct service in his present 
line of business. .Additional valuable training 
followed this, as he became bookkeeper for a leading 
firm of Buffalo dredgers, holding the position for 
ten years. He then embarked in the business for 
himself, in partnership with .\rthur Woods, under the 
firm name of Hingston & Woods. 

The sjiecialties to which Mr. Hingston has de- 
voted his energies are dredging, excavating, and 
laying water mains and submarine structures. An 
enumeration of the important contracts undertaken 
and successfully carried out by him and his partner 
would fill a page. .Among the more noteworthy 



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achievements of the firm may be mentioned the 
Ix.'high Valley slips at HulTalo, the inlet pier of the 
Buffalo waterworks, water mains at Rot hester anil 
Krie ; and similar mains for Syracuse at Skaneatelcs 
lake. Kxtensive rock-removal contracts at Oswego, 
Miifliilo, Krie, Sault Sainte Marie, and New Brims- 
wick, N. J., have l)een successfully fulfilled. In 
this ItMsiness are employeil a large force of men, 
with twelve dredges, tugs, mud scows, pumping 
Icirges, etc. 

Mr. Hingston is also interested in other enter- 
prises. He is a nieml)er of the finn of l.eh & Co., 
dock liuilders, and for several years has been senior 
member of the firm of Hingston, Rogers iS: O'Brien, 
known as the International Dredging Co. Mr. 
Hingston is an active, forceful man, with executive 
ability and strict methods of business. 
His success has been well earned, and his 
ability has l)een demonstrated by the 
diverse and difficult pursuits he has 
followe<l, in all of which he has proved 
himself caiKible and coni|)etent. His 
leisure hours are devoted to literary 
studies, and were it not for the exactions 
of business, some form of literary activity 
would be most congenial to him as a lite 
occuiation. Mr. Hingston is a Free 
Mason, and a member of the lafayette 
Street Presbyterian Church and of the 
Buffalo and Oakfield ( lui)S. 

I'ERSOXAL CIIROXOLOGY— 
F.iiwiinl J. liingslon was born at Tlwmas- 
toii, Me.,Janiiaiy22, ISJfU : iciis educated 
in the Xational Schools, Eng/and : taiif^ht 
school at l.iverf<ool, ISoS-^JJ : returned to ■ 
the United States, and settled in Buffalo in 
1802; learned the shipbuilder's trade, 
lS02-ti~ : married Mary E. Jiees oj 
Buffalo July 22, 1S72 ; has been engaged 
in the dredging business in Buffalo siiin 
fanuarx 1, 1S7S. 

"CClilliam 1?. iDotcbkiss, though 

still a umiij; in. in. c\cn il the term [k- 
narrowly interpreted, has already made a 
name for him.self, and accomplished much 
good in a field of u.sefulness cultivated 
too little by men of his stantling and 
ca|)acity. He is a ty|ie of the young 
professional men, of liberal education and 
well-develo])ed talent, who interest themselves in 
public affairs for the jiublic good. He was pre- 
pared for college at Clidden's Classical School in 
lainotiiwi), N. ^■., going from there to Hamilton 



College, where he graduated at the age of twenty- 
two with the degree of .V. B. He secured the much 
coveteil I'hi Beta KapjM key, besides honors in 
literature, oratory, debating. Creek, I.atin, and 
mathematics, and delivered the Head prize oration 
and I^tin salutatory. Three years after his gradua- 
tion, his college conferred on him the degree of .\. M. 
ImIW was the jfrofession that .\Ir. Hotchkiss ha»l 
chosen for himself, and with a view to obtaining a 
])ractical knowledge of legal |(rocedure as early as 
l>ossible, he accepted, after completing his college 
course, the ap|)ointment of clerk of the Surrogate's 
Court of Cayuga county, at .Vubiirn, .\. V. The 
surrogate at that time was John I). Teller, whose 
name became familiar throughout the state by his 
canilidacv for iudge of the ('(jiirt of Appeals on the 




ntlt ll\r II HOT' H KISS 

Democratic ticket in IH!)."). .Mr. Hott hkiss served 
as clerk two years, 1MH7-X9. Meantime, in 1H«N, 
he was admitted to the bar. Judge Teller took him 
into |>artnership, and he practiced at .\uburn, in the 



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firm of leller iV Hotchkiss, till 1.S91. He then 
moved to the larger field of Buffalo, where he entered 
into partnership with E. L. Parker, and where he has 
since pursued his profession. The firm of Parker & 
Hotchkiss has risen rajjidly in both influence and 
volume of business, and now ranks amoni,^ the Icadin" 




CHARLES A'. HlWrLEV 

commercial and banking law firms of lUiffalo. Mr. 
Hotchkiss is a lecturer on the law of personal prop- 
erty in the Buffalo Law School. 

The great problems of municipal government, so 
long neglected in American cities, were just begin- 
ning to receive serious public attention when Mr. 
Hotchkiss began the real work of his manhood. To 
the study of these ])roblems he addre.s.sed himself with 
the energy of youth, the earnestness of strong con- 
victions, and an honest desire to serve right jMir- 
poses. He has contributed articles fre([uently to the 
Re'rint) of Revinvs, Mtinsey's, Oiitiii;^, and the 
Buffalo Illustratetl Express, his range of subject in- 
cluding travels as well as municipal jiroblems. In 
the latter field, however, he has become recognized 



as an authority. He wrote a pamphlet monograph 
on "Urban Self (lovemment " in 1892, and has 
since delivered numerous lectures on that and 
kindred subjects. His interest in politics has been 
in the line of ])romoting ideas, rather than in the 
actual work of machines. He took an active part in 
exposing the ballot frauds in Buffalo in 
1H92, and has served as secretary of the 
committee on law and legislation of the 
Buffalo Citizens' A.ssociation for three 
years. He is also an acti\e member of 
the Buffalo Republican League, having 
served two years on the executive com- 
mittee, and one year as editor of its organ, 
The Opinion. He is a member of Chi 
Psi college fraternity, and served as editor 
in chief of its magazine, Purple and Gold, 
from l-S.Sfi to 1890. He belongs, also, to 
the Sons of the American Revolution, the 
P>uffalo Club, the Liberal Club, the Inde- 
pendent Club, and the New York State 
Bar Association. Especially worthy of 
mention is his work in connection with the 
drafting of the reform charter of Buffalo. 
PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— 
William Horace Hotchkiss was horn at 
Whitehall, Washington countv, N. Y., 
Septendier 7, 1804 •' ^'''J' educated at 
Glidden s Classical School, Jamestown, 
N. Y., and Hamilton College, Clinton, 
A^. Y. , from ti'hich he graduated in 1886 ; 
was clerk of the Surrogate' s Court of 
Cayuga county, 1887-89 ; was admitted to 
the bar in 1888 : has practiced laic in 
Buffalo since 1891 : married Katherine 
7'remaine Bush of Buffalo April 25, 189'). 



CbaiiC5 IR. llUHtlep I'elongs to 
the electri( age. \\ ithin the memory of 
\ oung men a new science, and a new i)rolession and 
industrv, have sprung into existence, revolutionizing 
the world in many of its features, destined evidently 
to transform the mechanics of life. The magician's 
wand has lieen outstri|)ped in this epoch of practical 
wonders. We live in an age of ])ioneers into the most 
extensive and promising realms that have ever invited 
the genius of man. Electricity has attracted to its 
service a class of men marked by keen activity and 
.\merican optimism. The science seems to have no 
jjlace for old-fashioned ]>eo|)le. Those who serve ii 
must be like it — (juick and full of force. Such a 
man is Charles R. Huntley. 

.\Ir. Huntley went to Buffalo a few years ago to 
accept the position of secretar\ of what was then the 



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Uriish Klectric Light Co. This coin|jany was siibsc- 
(|ucntly I hanged to the Buffalo ( Icneral Klectric Co., 
of which .\lr. llimtlev is now general manager. 
Into his jiosition he ha^i thrown all the energy anil 
enthusiasm of a vigorous mind and l)ody. While 
making no |,retense to inventive power, he has suc- 
cessfully striven to master the commercial side of 
electricity, and to imderstiind it thoroughly as a com- 
modity. It sounds strange to talk of the summer 
I loud's (lash as a commodity, l)ut to Mr. Huntley it 
is merely that ami nothing more. His business is to 
sell electricity at so mu( h a horse |)Ower. This 
rei|uires careful computation of the cost of every kilo 
of electricity, for in no indu.stry is comix'tition keener, 
or figured down to a closer liasis, than in this of 
furnishing electric power. 

lew men aro lietter known in the ele< trical worlil 
than Mr. Huntley, and his standing among 
his associates is attested by his election to 
the office of president of the National 
1-^leitric Light .\s.so( iaiion, composed o! 
eight hundr.d member;,. He was chiell\ 
instrumental in bringing the yearly con 
vention of that body to Buffalo in l«!Hi. 
He is a frequent ( ontributor to electrical 
journals, and is a member of the .Vmcric an 
Institute of Klectrical Lngineers. 

Previously to connecting himself with 
his present business, Mr. Huntley had 
exiierience in the oil fields of I'ennsyl 
vania, where he was the agent of the 
Staiulard Oil Co. At one time he wa.s 
in the brokerage busini.ss at Bradford. 
I'enn., and while a resident of that cit\ 
became prominent in its local affairs. Ik- 
was electeil s< hool comiJtroller for four 
years. He served a tenii also as select 
councilman. These positions he filled 
from a sense of civic duty. He is a 
sup])orter of the Democratic [arty, but he 
has not sought nominations, nor interested 
himself in |>olitics l)eyon<l what the dui\ 
of every voter retpiires. 

Mr. Huntley is a native of the Lm|>irr 
State, and was born at W'infield, Herkimei 
county, where his father was :i merchant 
He was educated in the district school, 
and graduated from the Free .\cademy at 
I'tiia, his |wrents having moved to that 
city. His first business training was ob- 
tained as a clerk in a hardware store. Next he 
entered the service of Remington iV Sons, the famous 
gun and tyi)ewTiling-machiiie makers. He con- 
linufil lii-n- felt si'vcTil \c.ir>, iinlil ihr oil i\< Itiinent 



in Henasylvania attracted him to the Keystone 
State. Wherever Mr. Huntley has lived he ha.- 
won hosts of friends, and he is a meml>er of the 
princijjal social clubs of BufTalo. He is a Mason 
in high standing, and is a memlicr of the Kpi.sco|ial 
churih. 

/'KRSOXAL CIIROXOLOGY—aiarlfs Rus- 
Sill lltiiilUy 7i',is born at W'injifld, X. )'. , Oilohfi 
l.i, 1854 •' f^riu/iiiitfil from I 'lica Aeaileniy in 1S7I> : 
7i>as rnf^nf^fil in thf hanhiHirf husinesi anJ itnlh 
Remini^ton if Sons, /linn, A'. K , 1870-77 ; marricii 
/till L. Riclhinison of liiiffalo June IJ, 1S7S : 7i<ii\ 
iiX'f'il of tin- SlanliirJ Oil Co. in Pninsyl-niniii, 
1877-8S : coniiiiclfJ a firokfrai^r business at Hra<l- 
foiil, Penn. , lS8-iSS : has been fonneeleil with thi 
Huffalo (ieninil lUettrii Co. ami its />retteeessor\ 
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'CatUlfi' li. SachSOIl is a tyiK.- of the younger 
clxss of BiilTalii buMius> men whose energy and fore 
sight h.'ive had mm h to do with the remarkable 
growlh of the ( ity in the last Iwciilv M-ars Kntering 



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business there just at the lime when the "Buffalo 
boom " was setting in, his rapid advance may ahnost 
be deemed re])resentative of that of the town. And 
yet nothing has been further from Mr. Jackson's 
line of work than mere booming or speculating. 
His ha.s been rather the substantial work of the 
manufactiirer and trader, whose enterprising spirit, 
reaching out constantly after new business, and mak- 
ing the city the center of operations that cover a 
considerable part of the country, has given to the 
growth of Buffalo the substantial and permanent 
character that is its chief distinguishing feature. 

Mr. Jackson is only about thirty-five years old. 
Born in the West, he reversed the advice of Horace 
Cireeley and went East, though he can hardly be 
held responsible for that, since he was but si.\ years 
old at the time. His education was obtained in the 
Buffalo public schools, from which he graduated at 
the age of sixteen. With the energy of a youth who 
finds him.self freed at last from school fetters, young 
Jackson sought and found employment with the 
Tug Association on Central wharf. This, however, 
occupied him only during the summer. The months 
at his disposal during the sea.son when navigation 
on the lakes was closed, he determined to use to 
improve his education, and he accordingly entered 
Professor Herman Poole's Practical School, where 
he took a full commercial course, besides a special 
course in higher mathematics. This occupied two 
winters, his summers, meantime, being employed on 
Central wharf, first with the Tug Association, and 
then with forwarding and commission houses. .-Xfter 
this Mr. Jackson worked for live years in a nicnan 
tile office. 

When he was twenty five years old he became 
connected with the cooperage business of his father- 
in-law, Thomas Tindle, who gladly availed himself 
of Mr. Jackson's business training and talents, tak- 
ing the young man into his business at first on 
a salary and within a short time as a partner. The 
branching out of the firm into manufacturing dates 
from l.S!)2. The first mill was built at Saginaw, 
Mich. The experiment of making their own stock 
in the very region where the material grew turned 
out so well that the Saginaw mill was soon duplicated 
by one at St. Charles. I'hen another was built at 
Bellaire, another at (laylord, and finally a fifth at 
Alba. Thus the |)roducts of five large cooperage 
factories in the Michigan forests are brought lo 
Buffalo for distrilnition by this single firm. 

Mr. Jackson early became interested in military 
matters, enlisting as a jjrivate in Company D, (ioth 
regiment. He was afterward transferred to Comijany 
F, and won ra])id promotion, in the six years of his 



service he passed through the grades of corporal, 
2d sergeant, 1st sergeant, 2d lieutenant, and 1st 
lieutenant. Though he has never been ambitious 
for political honors, he is an earnest Republican, 
and a member of the Buffalo Repulilican League. 
He belongs to the Asbury Methodist Church, and 
is esteemed and respected by a large circle of social 
and business acquaintances. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY — Willis K. 
Jackson was horn at EJgerton, Wis., September 22, 
18(>1 ; moved to Buffalo in 1807, and was educated 
in the public schools there ; was employed in forward- 
ing and commission houses and in a mercantile office, 
1877-86 : married Annette Tindle of Buffalo Sep- 
tember 22, 1886 ; has been a mejnher of the firm 
of Tindle &= Co. , cooperage manufacturers, since 1888. 



Milliam prvor Xetcbwortb has devoted 

his life, for more than a quarter of a century, to 
]jhilanthropic public: service. His parents were 
members of the Society of Friends, whose lives were 
those of quiet usefulness ; and the boy, looking out 
upon the larger world before him, early determined 
that if in Cod's providence the way should open, 
his own efforts and means should be devoted to the 
betterment of his fellow-men. 

Going to Buffalo from New York in 1848, Mr. 
Letchworth established with Samuel !■'. and Pascal P. 
Pratt the firm of Pratt & Letchworth, manufacturers 
of saddlery hardware and malleable iron. He was 
managing partner of that pros|)erous and constantly 
enlarging business until iSGi), when he felt that he 
might retire from its engrossing cares, and devote his 
time to those works of usefulness that were the polar 
star of iiis life's endea\or. In intervals of rest he 
had profited by foreign travel, for which his literar\ 
tastes, and his cultivated habitsofclo.se and constant 
observation, had well prepared him. His interest in 
Buffalo affairs had ahvays been most active. For 
three years he was the president of the Buffalo Fine 
Arts .'\cademy, and contributed much to its success. 
He served also as ])resident of the Buffalo Historical 
Society, and was active upon many local boards. 

In 1873 the board of state commissioners of public 
charities, organized under the laws of 18()7, was 
changed by statute, and became the state board of 
charities; and in April of that year Mr. Letchworth 
was a])pointed by Governor Dix commissioner of the 
8th judicial district, to fill the vacancy caused by the 
death of Dr. Sanuiel Fastman. In these new and 
unexjjected duties his sympathies were at once 
aroused by the pitiable condition of homeless and 
destitute (hildren, of whom a considerable per- 
centage were at that time in the count\' and city 



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almshouses throughout the state, exjwsed to the most 
degradinj; associations : and he resolved that he 
would not rest until those unfortunates were removed 
from the vicious influences of that poisoned moral 
atmosjjhere. During \>^~'.i he effected much in 
reforming this abuse, and in the annual rejKirt of the 
l)oard to the legislature in March, 1X7-I, 
he |)re|>arcd that suggestive portion re- 
lating to child-saving work in which he 
directed attention to the great abuse 
of rearing children in jKiorhouses. in 
January, 1M7"), he made an important 
report on the subject, the details of which 
covered every poorhouse and almshouse 
in the state except the immense establish- 
ment in New York county containing 
about K(t() children, which was reserved 
for further examination. In his re|)ort 
Mr. Letchworth recommended that all 
children between the ages of two and 
sixteen years be removed from these 
institutions, and |»laced in families or 
asylums suited to their care and educa- 
tion, and that their admission to |>auper 
establishments be forbidden in the future. 
The recommendation was adopted, and 
an im|iortant act was |)assed during the 
session, which has come to be known as 
the " t'hildren's law." The coimty of 
New \'ork subsequently ap|)ealctl to the 
legislature tor exemption iVom the law: 
but when Mr. Letchworth's re|X)rt on the 
county institutions was made in January. 
JSTtl, which I ompleted his report of the 
whole state, the apijeal was denied, antl 
this long standing abuse in the New \'ork 
state system was completely abolished. 
In 1H7<i Mr. Letihworth submitted an 
exhaustive rei)ort on the condition of 
homeless children in the various reformatory institu- 
tions of the state. These were \'.U'> in number and 
provided for about IS.OtlO children, and with only 
two exceptions Mr. Letchworth had |)ersonally visited 
every institution. He presenteil authoritative infor- 
mation regarding ea<h that |)roveil of the highest value 
in forming and instructing public o|)inion as to the 
l>est methods of conducting this important branch of 
charitable work. From year to year his labors were 
continued, and his |)3instaking investigations and 
matured opinions proved of such worth that his 
jniblished reports and addres.ses have liecome ac- 
knowledged authorities in the wide domain cover- 
ing the relations of the state to the de|>endent 
cla.s.ses. 



In 1M74 he had been elected vice president of the 
state l)oard of charities, and u|K)n the death of 
J. V. I,. I'ruyn, in 1M7H, he was unanimously elected 
presiilent. Krom the beginning of his public service 
he has devoted hi> entire time to the work without 
comijensation. 




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His attention was turned at this time to the care 
of the in.sane, and he tleemeil it of im|)ortance to 
learn from |)ersonal obsenation the methods adopted 
elsewhere. In IHKl, accordingly, he s|»ent several 
months in Cireat Britain and on the continent, giv- 
ing his entire time to the insiKjction of Kuro|)ean in- 
stitutions, and seeking infortnation that might aid 
him in his duties. L'])on his return, his work ujKin 
"The Care of The Insane in Foreign C'oimtries" 
was ]iublished, and found immediate recognition by 
alienists throughout the I'nited States as a valuable 
treatise for their information and guidance. Its clear 
judgments and practical suggestions accomplished 
much good in our state hos|)itals and private 
asylums. 



1G4 



MEN OF AEH- yOKK—\lE:STER.\ SECTION 



After holdin},' the position for a decade, Mr. 
[.etchworth vohintarily retired from the presidency 
of the board of charities, feeling entitled to a release 
from responsibilities so long sustained. He con- 
tinued, however, lo be a member of the board, as 
conuTiissioner for the 8th judicial district. He has 



IHOMAS [.OTIIKur 

devotetl his time in recent years to ofticial duties, to 
the e.xacting rec|uirenients of an extensive corres])ond 
ence, and to the prejjaration of many valuable publi 
cations relating to puljlic charities. Largely through 
his efforts the state has established at Sonyea, near 
.Mount Morris, the Craig Colony for the care and 
treatment of epile])tics. His country home at Glen 
iris, at the I-'alls of the (lencste, has been a busy 
center for charitable work, extending far beyond the 
borders of his own state, wherever the needs of his 
lellow-men have sought recognition and help. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— William Pryor 
Lctchwortli 7uas born at Brownvillc, Jefferson county, 
N. Y. , May 26, 1823 ; engaged in manufacturing in 
Buffalo, ISlfS-OU : 7cias appointed a memhi r of the state 



board of charities in April, 1873, vice president in 
fune, 1874, and president in A/arch, 1878: loas presi- 
dent oj the A'ational Conference of Charities, September, 
1883 ; received the degree of Doctor of Laws from the 
University of Neni York '^ for distinguished sen'ice to 
the state ' ' February 9, 1893. 




TlbOmaS XOtbrop is one of the 
most distinguished practitioners of medi- 
cine in Buffalo, a city that .sup])orts several 
medical colleges, and is noted for its 
skilled physicians and surgeons. Dr. 
Lothrop's ancestors were among the 
earliest settlers of New England, and he 
is a lineal descendant of the Rev. John 
Lothro]j, who came from England and 
settled in Scituate, Mass., in 1634. Dr. 
Lothro]) ])repared for college under private 
tutors, graduated from the Liberal Insti- 
tute at Clinton, N. Y., in 1855, and 
entered the same year upon a three years' 
course of medical study at the University 
of Michigan. From the medical depart- 
ment of that institution he received the 
degree of M. D. in 1858. The next year 
he went to Buffalo to practice his pro- 
fession. 

His life in Buffalo began under favorable 

auspices, for he was invited to take charge 

of the ])rofe.ssional work of Dr. John D. 

Hill, an eminent physician in his day, 

«ho desired a European vacation from 

his labors. On Dr. Hill's return Dr. 

Lothrop opened an office at Black Rock, 

where he j)racticed for eleven years, and 

established his reputation. Moving back 

to the center of the city in 1871, he has 

since been actively engaged in practice, 

and in the performance of his professorial 

iluties at Niagara University. His has been a l)us\ 

life. In addition to practicing and teaching medicine, 

he has been, since 1879, .senior editor of the Buffalo 

Medical and Surgical Journal. He is physician in 

chief of St. Francis Hospital and the Women's 

Hospital : consulting physician of the Hospital of the 

Sisters of Charity, the Providence Retreat, and the 

Erie County Hospital ; Fellow of the American 

Association of Obstetricians and (gynecologists ; and 

he was ap])ointed by Governor Flower in 18!C.2 a 

manager of the Buffalo State Hospital. 

Dr. Lothrop has been deejjly interested in the 
eleemosynary institutions of Buffalo, especially as 
regards the medical aspect of such establishments. 
Outside the inunediale practice of his profession, 



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he has devoted time and study to the Iteneticeiit 
work of the Church Charity Foundation of Buffalo, 
of which he is president, and to the cause of educa- 
tion in {,'eneral and of medical training; in |>ariicidar. 
His long connection with the mjtlical de|)artmenl 
of Niagara University, dating from its establishment, 
has made him an earnest advocate of higher stand- 
ards o( study and tea<hing for those who are to 
liccome |)hysicians and surgeons. The esteem in 
which he is helil liy the members of his profession 
wxs evidenced by his election in IH!).'} as president 
n{ the liuffalo Academy of Medicine. 

Dr. l.othro|) served one term a.s superintendent 
of education of Huffalo, in lH7(l-72, and has never 
lost his interest in the city schools. In ISitd he was 
appointed a trustee of the State Normal School at 
liuffalo. In all the many offices and jxisitions of 
responsibility held by him, Dr. I.othrop 
has shown rare faithfulness, cajjacity for 
work, and executive ability. He is one 
of the strong men of his |>rolession and 
of the city of liuffalo. Niagara I'niversity 
has conferred upon him doctorates ol 
medicine and of philosophy. In politics 
Dr. I.othrop is a Democrat, but he has 
never taken an active |)art in |ioliti<ai 
iffairs except when nominated and elected 
superintendent of education. 

PERSONAL CllKONOL OGY— 
riioiiiaa Lothrofi was horn at Pioi'incr- 
ti>^i>n, A/ass., Af'iil Hi, IS-iO : i^railiiali-l 
from the Liheral Institute, Clinton, N. ) '. , 
/// 18i>s>, and from the meiieat department 
of the University of Miehi;^an in IS'hH : 
•i'as superintendent of education, Buffalo, 
lS7(t-7^ : has practiced medicine in lUiJ- 
falo since 18')i) ; has been professor of 
obstetrics in the medical department of 
\'ia\;ara University since 1S,9.{, 

X0U13 Milliam /lDarcu£i «;» 

ele( ted surrogate of Krie county wluii 
only thirty-two years old, and he is prob 
ably the youngest man that ever held tlu 
orti( c. When one remembers that this is 
ihe third county in the state as regards 
^ize and population, and that the work of 
the surrogate is correspondingly im|)ortant, 
one can ajiprei iate the conl'idence that 
the voters have i)Iaced in this young man. 
Mr. Marcus has not been long in office, but he has 
dready shown such grasp of details, talent for concen- 
tration, anil equipoise of judgment, as give assurance 
of a suci cssful and highh (T.dilable t'-rm of service. 



I.ouis \\ . Marcus is a thorough HufTalonian. He 
was born in the Queen City, and there he has always 
lived. This fact explains why he has become so 
fully imbued with the spirit of the jilace. He lovc-s 
liuffalo, and his enthusiasm lor his native < ity has 
won friends for HulTalo and for himself. His early 
education was obtained in the liuffalo schools anil in 
Williams .Vcademy. Al'ter graduating from the high 
school he entere<l Cornell Cniversity, where he ob 
lained the degree of I.I-. H. 

He naturally turned his mind toward the law , 
ambitiou.s youth commonly find this the mosi 
attractive of the professions. Al'ter exhaustive study, 
he was admitted to the bar when twenty -five years 
old. His first |>artnership was fonned in 1M!((), 
when he made one of the firm of Swift, Weaver iV 
Marcus. Two vears later Mr Swifl withdrew. \ni\ 




LOtt^ It //.//(.I/ .l/.(A'( f.s 

the firm cotititiued as Weaver & Marcus imtil the 
death of Mr. Weaver in February, lX!t4. 

Mr. Marcus has lakcti a strong interest in politics 
ever since his majority, tlioiiidi his |>;irt until re« eiitly 



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MEN OF XEW YORK— IVES TERX SECT/OX 



has been that of the (ritizen rather than of the poli- 
tician. When the time came for the election of a 
new surrogate of Erie coimty, in the fall of 189/), 
there was a general feeling of revolt from machine 
politics, which had once wrecked the Reiniblican 
party in the county, afterward the Democratic, and 




JOSEPH H. MAVEK 

which was then beginning to rea])])ear in the Repub- 
lican party. The feeling expressed itself in a desire 
to choo.se Republican candidates from outside the 
ranks of the older and more familiar politicians. 
For the office of surrogate, as for other offices, the 
|)eople demanded an infusion of new blood, a can- 
didate of inde|jendenl character, who should ieel 
thai his sole obligations were to the peo|)le who 
had elected him. It was in response to this demand 
that the county convention placed in nomination 
Louis VV. Marcus. It was not done without a sharp 
struggle, but the triumph was all the more notable 
for the opposition that hatl preceded it. The same 
faith in Mr. Marcus's abilitv and honestv that had 



led to his nomination secured his election by a large 
majority. 

Judge .Marcus stands high as a Mason, holding 
membership in Ancient Landmark Lodge, No. 441, 
F. & A. M., and Adytum Cha])ter, Buffalo Consis- 
tory, 3'2d degree. He is also a member of the Inde- 
pendent Order of Red Men. While in 
college he joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon 
fraternity, and has since become a mem- 
ber of the D. K. E. Club of New York. 
In the social life of Buffalo he figures as 
a prominent member of the new and 
growing Phoenix Club, of which he is 
president. 

PERSONAL CHR OXOL OGY— 
Louis William Marcus 7vas born at Buffalo 
May IS, 1863 ; was educated in the Buf- 
falo schools and Cornell University ; icas 
admitted to the bar in 1888 : married Ray 
R. Dahlman of Buffalo No7<ember 19, 
1889 ; ivas elected surrogate of Erie county 
in November, 1895. 



30Sepb JB. /IDager is a promoter 
of new enterprises. He is a rejjresenta- 
tive of a class of men in the modern world 
who find unplowed fields for capital to 
develo]3. Invention and enterprise have 
gone hand in hand under the guidance of 
1 such men as Mr. Mayer, who blaze the 

Bl way for industry and progress. The past 

^^ decade has witnessed a marvelous expan- 

^B sion of American cities. The trend of 

^^■^ humanity has set in that direction, and 

^^^H there has been an ever increasing demand 
^^^^ for more room in urban <:ommimities. To 

^m^ sup])ly this demand, vast tracts of waste 

or larm land must be reclaimed from 
nature and transformed into city lots. 
.\long this line of commercial activity 
Mr. Mayer has expendeil effort and capital in recent 
years. He has organized and succe.ssfiilly managed 
syndicates, which have ])urchased large sections of 
land around Buffalo, im])roved it, and put it upon the 
market. The transjiortation problem has also received 
attention from him, for nothing is more essential to 
the de\elopment of suburban property than easy and 
chea]) means of access. Therefore Mr. Mayer is 
interested in street railroads, and was a jjromoter 
of the Buffalo Traction Com|)any, whose vigorous 
fight, in 18!)r)-9(), to secure a fran(hise in Buffalo, 
is a matter of local history. 

Mr. Mayer was born in Baden, Germany, but 
came to the I'nited .States before he had attained 



AfKX or \/:n- vork—u-f.stkkx sKcnox 



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his majority. He received a thorough elementary 
education, and f;radiiated in 1X(i(! from the Freihur),' 
gymnasiinn, an institiitiun of the s;inie relative rank 
a.s the American high school or academy. 

Mr. Mayer settled in HufTalo in l!S(i«, anil tor 
many years was engaged there in the liusiness of im- 
|iorling diamonds. He \\a> as.sociated with I.oiiis 
\\'eill from \S~'> until l.S7t), when the |>artnershi|) was 
dissolved. .\!r. Mayer continued in the business until 
1H!(1, and Imilt up one of the largest and most impor- 
tant establishments of the kind in the country outside of 
New \'ork city. He made trips to Holland twice each 
year, purchasing there unset stones in large (|uantities. 
The manifest destiny, however, of the (Jueen City 
impres.sed itself u|)on Mr. Mayer, and his attention 
was gradually turned in the direction of real estate. 
In this field of enterprise his o|)erations have been on 
a large scale, and his sagacity, |)ersever- 
ance, and tact have enabled him to con- 
duct to favorable results the many im- 
portant projects in whi( h he has figured. 

In politics Mr. Mayer is a Democrat, 
and is always ardent in the support of his 
])arty ; but he has uniformly declined to 
accejjt nominations for elective offices. 
He accepted, however, in IMil."), an ap- 
pointment from the mayor of Buffalo as a 
<ivil-service commissioner. He is jiresi- 
dent of the Temple Heth /.ion, the lead- 
ing Jewish congregation in HulTalo : and is 
a member of the Ma.sonic fraternity, and of 
the p;iIicott and Liberal clubs. He is a 
life member of the (lerman Young Men's 
.\s,si)( iation, a member of the council of 
the Charity Organization Society, and 
actively interested in the tree kinder- 
gartens and many kindred organizations. 
He has lieen an extensive traveler, having 
been all over the United States, and 
visited manv Kuro]>ean countries. 

r/CRSOXAL CllROXOL OG ) — 
Jou-f'li A'. Mayer 7tHXs. horn al BaJen, 
Gfrmany, January If, IS^tt : i^railiialeil 
from the liii^h sehoo/ of Freilmr;^, Germanx, 
in 1S<!0 ; came to the Unileii States in 
ISdS, ami heji^an hitsiness as a itiamonil 
imf'orler in Biiffah : niarriei/ Belle Faick 
of Buffalo July l.'i, 1ST 4 .' Ims heen 
eni^at^ed in the real-estate business in 
Buffalo since Wil. 



good. He is a " down-Kaster " by birth, and his 
early education was aojuired in the s< hools of his 
native town. He ]ire|);ireii for college at Limerick 
.\catlemy and Nichols I.atin School, entered How- 
doin College at Brunswick, Me., in IXIili, and 
graduated therefrom in 1K7<I with the Bachelor of 
.\rts degree. Three years later he was honored with 
the .Master of .Arts ilegree by his alma mater. While 
in college he was a meml)cr of the Psi L'|»ilon fra- 
ternity, and upon graduation was elected a memlier 
of the Thi Beta Kap|>a fraternity. Mr. Meads has a 
studious nature, and he naturally turned his talents 
to teaching. He went to Buffalo soon after he left 
college, and for a [jeriod of ten years was princi|)al 
of one of the public schools there. Mr. Meads 
stuilied law while teaching, and in IHMO he was 
admitted to the bar, and resigned his |X)sition in the 




'CQilU^i 1). /IDCl;^^3 is a prominent meml)er of 
the Lrie-county bar ; but he is eijuallv well known 
for his intertsi in all matters liertaining '" ''"■ liiil.ll. 



Ml It. IS II Mi-.tns 



public SI hools. Soon afterward he became the 
jimior memlier of the law firm of Kennedy, Rolxjris 
iV .Meads, whii h was dis.solved in ISSl. For about 

fiiiir \r.irs .ihrr !lii> hi* iir.ii lii nl l:i\\ ;iliiM|.. .iml ihi-ii 



lOt^ 



ME.X OJ' X/Clf yt!KK-~lVESTE/iA SECT/OX 



associated himself with Cleorge T. Quinliy uikIlt the 
firm name of Quinhy cS: Meads. Later the firm was 
changed to Qiiinby, Meads & Reliadow, and so con- 
tinued until its dissolution in 1)S!).'5. 

Aside from his connection with the legal profes- 
sion, Mr. Meads has associated himself with many of 




llEliiiHkT MICKLE 

thj well knoivn institutions of Buffalo, anil is promi 
nent in fraternal and c:lub circles. He is a member 
of the Queen City Lodge, F. & A. M., and of the 
.Adytum Chapter, R. A. M. He is a prominent 
member of the University, Buffalo, and .Acacia clubs, 
and is actively interested in the Buffalo Historical 
Society and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 
to Animals. 

Mr. Meads has only once been a candidate for 
political honors. He had always been interested in 
the cause of education, and especially in the advance- 
ment of the public schools, and in 1881 he received 
the Republican nomination for superintendent of 
education for the citv of Buffalo. How well he ran 
may be s:-en in the fa< t thai while Crov'-r Clivcbind 



was elected mayor of the city at this time by a 
Democratic majority of 8,700, Mr. .Meads was de- 
feated by fewer than loO votes. 

The rejjutation for honesty and ability that .Mr. 
Meads had gained during his long and successful 
career in the practice of law in Buffalo brought him, 
in 1895, an important appointment. 
The jury system of P2rie county w-as then 
in a very unsatisfactory condition, and a 
law had been passed to correct the evil. 
This law vested the appointing i)ower in 
the justices of the Supreme Court residing 
in the county, and in the county judge ; 
and by th'..m Mr. Meads was ajjpointed 
commissioner of jurors. The office is 
a very important one, and Mr. Meads 
was selected from a large number of candi- 
dates to fill the position. Since his 
appointment he has given his whole 
energy and ability to the task before him, 
and has brought the once-distrusted jury 
system of Erie county to a high standard. 
PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— 
Willi!: Fhnnard Meads 7vas born at Soutli 
Limim^ion, Me. , February 2ii, 184.0 ; 
at/ended Limerick {Me.) Academy and 
Nichols Latin School, Lewiston, iV/e., and 
graduated from Bowdoin College in 1870 ; 
7vas principal of Public School No. IS, 
Buffalo, 1870-80 ; married Martha Rose 
of Buffalo December 2 Jf, 1872, and Louise 
Collingnon of Buffalo January (j, 1880 ,• 
was admitted to the bar at Buffalo in 
1880 ; was Re/mdlican candidate for super- 
intendent of education of Buffalo, 1881 ; 
loas appointed commissioner of jurors for 
Erie countx in 189'>. 

Ibcrbcrt /BMchle, though stiii a 

voung man, has attained an en\iable position among 
the medical fraternity of Buffalo, and has established 
a reputation for learning and skill that insures to him 
a distinguished career in the years to come. He is a 
member of a family well known in literary and scien 
tilic circles in Canada, and inherits a taste for poeIr\ 
from his ancestor, William Julius Mickle, who 
llouri.shed as a Scottish ])oet, 1735-88, and who is 
best known by his translation of Camoens's Lusiad. 

Born at (luelph, in the province of Ontario, Dr. 
Mickle received a thorough collegiate and medical 
education to fit him for his chosen profession. Ik- 
graduated from Cpper Canada College, Toronto, at 
the unusually early age of sixteen, and at once entered 
I'rinilv Medical Si hool in the same citv. In I .H.s | 



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he received the degree of Bachelor of Medicine from 
Trinity College, I'oronto ; and the .same year weiil 
to Kngland, and entered St. HartholoniLVv's llospital 
.\ledi( al S<'ho(il, in London, where he |)urMied addi 
ti(jnal studies for two years. At the end of that time 
he was made a member of the Royal College of 
Surgeons anil Physicians of London, and received the 
degree of l)o( tor of Medicine from Trinity College. 
Toronto. 

After this long and thorough course of |>re|)aration, 
combining the advantages of the old world and the 
new. Dr. Miiklv returned to .America, in IXH."], and 
established himself in Ituffalo. .Mthough he had ile- 
voled so much time to his medical studies, he had 
scarcely |)a.s.se(l his majority when he l>egan his pro- 
fessional career in Buffalo. He was at once ap- 
jiointed house surgeon to the Kmorgency T{os|iiial, 
and demonstrator of anatomy in the 
medical dejjartment of Niagara L'niver- 
sity. Two years later he was made 
lecturer on [wthology in the same instiiu 
lion, then jirofes-sor of anatomy, anil 
hnally profes-sor of surgery ; and thi> 
position he still fills. Of hospital jirai 
tice, so valuable to a physician, l)r. 
Mickle has always had a large share. He 
IS at present attending surgeon to the 
Hospital of the Sisters of Charity, St. 
Francis Hospital, the Kmergcncy Hos- 
pital, and the Church Home, and ( onsnlt- 
ing surgeon to the Buffalo WOmen's 
Hospital. 

His duties in <onnection with these 
various institutions, together with his 
private practice and his lectuns at the 
university, would seem more than enough 
to occupy the time of one man ; but Dr. 
Mickle has also given some attention to 
literature in (onnection with his profes- 
sion, and he was at one time assistant 
editor of the Buffalo Mfdictil an! Siii;^iiitl 
loiirnal. 

Dr. Mickle finds healthful relaxation 
Irom the wear and tear of professional 
life in his interest in athletic sports of 
different kinds. He has been an active 
member of the Buffalo Vacht Club, the 
Buffalo Cricket Club, and the Buffalo 
.\thletic I'lub. He is also a member 
of Hiram Lodge, No. 10.5, Free and 
.\ccepted Masons, and attends the F"irst Pri'livlcrian 
(.'hurch. 

PF.RSO.XAI. CIIROXOLOGY—llfrhntMukl, 
K'lis horn iil iii(i-lf<h. Ontiiiio. April .<ti. ISill 



f^rai/itaU,/ from Upprr Canaiia ColUnf, Toronto, in 
1S77, on J from Trinity Mfdital School, Toronto, in 
ISSl : married Siisette L. Moss of Ihookhn July .^7, 
ISUi : hits practice J mcMcine in fUiffalo since ISS.i . 
lias /teen professor of suri;ery in the medical department 
of Xia);ara University since ISItl. 



a^Clt>Cl■t flDOOt ranks with the foremost ol 
Bultalo lawyers. .\ studious, |>ainslaking, conscicn 
tious man, he has won his way by his own efforts, 
based u|)on untiring energy and a strong moral 
pur|)ose. He is a man whom his fellows res|»ect, 
because- they lielieve that he strives to Ite right and 
to do right. Though he has never sought publit 
office, he has been prominent in politics, and has 
been a lifelong Kepubliian. He lovis his c(iunlr\ 
first, however, and his \ti\n\ afterward. He deems 




MtEtlUKI .\fOi>7 

It tile citi/en s duty to keejj his [larty clean if he 
can, and if he cannot, to |>unish it for its sins, 
rather than have his fellow-citi/ens suffer by its mis- 
ink. -^ .ir Ik . riiii.s \cting on these high primipUs. 



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he is naturally a reformer. I'he Civil Service Ret'orm 
Association holds him among its most active and 
earnest members. When the Good Clovernment 
Club movement in this state began, he was among 
the first to identify himself with it. The agitation 
for sound money found in him a ready and an eager 
advocate. When the election frauds of 1892 were 
brought home to the people, and a citizens' associa- 
tion was formed to prosecute the malefactors, Mr. 
Moot was retained at once as one of the principal 
lawyers for the association. He was thus actively 
engaged at that time in the work of purification 
of the city. 

Mr. Moot was a country boy, born among the 
hills of famous Allegany county. When he had 
exhausted the resources of the schools in his neigh- 
borhood, he followed the usual course of country 
boys by going to the nearest village school, which 
in this case was at Belmont. Afterward he attended 
the acadetny at Nunda, and then the State Normal 
School at Geneseo. Thence he went to the Albany 
Law School, where he took his degree. He was 
admitted to the bar on his twenty-second birthday. 

He began practice a few months later in partner- 
ship with George M. Osgoodby at Nunda. Two 
years thereafter the firm moved to Buffalo, and Mr. 
Moot thus plunged into the struggle of city practice 
much earlier than do most country-bred lawyers, 
lacking the advantage of an extensive acquaintance, 
he made up for this drawback by exceptional ability 
and a disposition to work hard. The Nunda firm 
of O.sgoodby & Moot became, in Buffalo, Osgoodby, 
Titus & Moot, by the acce.ssion of Judge Titus. 
Three years later Mr. Moot withdrew to enter the 
firm of Lewis, Moot & Lewis, with which he 
remained twelve years. During this period was 
achieved the substantial success that won for him 
his high place at the Buffalo bar. In iJSil.S he 
entered his present firm, known as S|)rague, Moot, 
Sprague & Brownell. He has had charge of many 
important cases in the courts of I'-rie county, and 
his practice, it need hardly be added, has assumed 
large proportions. He is a member of the American 
Bar Association and of the New York State Bar 
Association, and is also connected with the law 
department of the University of Buffalo. 

Mr. Moot has found time for extensive reading 
and study, outside his profession, in the general field 
of literature, science, and history. As an aid to 
these pursuits, he has joined the Thursday Club, the 
Liberal Club, the Buffalo Historical .Society, and the 
Society of Natural Sciences. His only social club 
is the Saturn. He belongs to the Church of Our 
Father (Unitarian). 



PERSONAL CIIR ONOL O G \ '—Adclbert Moot 
was born at Allen, Allegany county, N. V., No-,>cm- 
l>er 22, 185 Jf. ; was educated in public schools and 
the Albany Law School : 7iias admitted to the bar at 
Albany in 1876; practiced law at Nunda, N. ¥., 
1877-79; married Carrie A. Van Ness of Cuba, 
N. v., July 22, 1882; has practiced bno in Buffalo 
since 1870. 



Xldilliam lb. ©rCUtt was a distinguished mem- 
ber of the Middlesex-county bar in Ma,ssachu.setts be- 
fore he moved to Buffalo, and became a citizen of the 
I'>mpire State. In his new home Mr. Orcutt has 
already won a high place in the ranks of his profes- 
sion, and among the influential factors of the city's 
intellectual and social life. Mr. Orcutt is a Boston- 
ian by birth, and had the benefit of a thorough train- 
ing in the public schools of his native city, and of 
the neighboring city of Cambridge. Educated un- 
der the very eaves of America's greatest university, it 
was cpiite natural that he should enter Harvard Col- 
lege. His course there was most creditable, and he 
took rank with the best scholars in his cla.ss, gradu- 
ating eighth in a class of 108. This high stand 
made him eligible for membership in the Phi Beta 
Kappa society, composed of the brainiest men of all 
the leading colleges of the country. Mr. Orcutt was 
prominent also in athletics, and is a fine illustration 
of the fact that a man can attain to high scholarship, 
and yet |)artici])ate in the athletic sports of his 
college. 

.\fter completing his classical course, Mr. Orcutt 
entered the law school of the university, and at the 
end of two years received the degree of LL. B. He 
entered at once upon a twenty months' clerkship in 
the office of Brooks & Ball of Boston. In 187") he 
was admitted to the Massachusetts bar, and in that 
year began to practice for himself in Boston. He 
was there engaged in the duties of his profession con- 
tinuously until 1882, when he was appointed by 
(Governor Long judge of the District Court in the 
county of Middlesex. This was a life ]josition, and 
as the court was located in Cambridge, the shire city 
of that county, Mr. Orcutt' s duties were performed 
there, until he resigned his office and moved to 
Buffold. 

Mr. ( )rcult took up his residence in the (^iieen 
City under most favorable auspices. He became a 
member of the law firm of Roberts, .-Mexander, 
Mcsser iS: Orcutt, now changed to Roberts, Becker, 
.\shley, Messer & Orcutt, one of the largest legal 
firms in western New York. In the comparatively 
short time that he has lived in Buffalo, Mr. Orcutt 
has imjiressed the bar and the community as a man of 



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wide intelligence, a clear and ileep thinker, endowed 
in an exceptional degree with hard sense, deliberate 
jiiilgnient, and absolute integrity. To these sterling 
ijualities he adils a ilignified presence and courtly 
manners. In |)ublic aflairs Mr. ( )rcutt has Ivecn less 
conspicuous in Buffalo than he was in Mas.sachu.>ietts, 
and ha-s confined him.self closely to his 
law practice, iloubtless iVom an inherent 
nioilcsty and dislike to obtrude himself in 
the affairs of a somewhat strange city ; 
but HufTalo has need for the very services 
which he is most com|>etent to render, 
and which in C'ambritlge he tlid rentier. 

While a resident of fambridge, .Mr. 
( )r( ntt gave twelve years of efficient and 
unrewarded service to the public schools 
of that city. The cau.se of education has 
|)cen his s|je( ial stu<ly outside the law, 
and he has devoted time, in a manner 
worthy of the highest praise, to the 
betterment of the system. It is such 
service that really tests a man's loyalt\ 
to American institutions. His jtractical 
sense has been displayed in jtroviding 
mamial training s( hools, and in shortening 
the time and simplil'ying the courses of 
study in preparatory .schools so as to give 
to pupils who can spend but a few- 
years in school the greatest variety of 
training compatible with sound priruiples 
of instruction. Mr. Orcutt has written 
fretpiently on educational topics, and is 
master of a logical, tbrceful style. He 
is a member of the Buffalo antl Mllicoti 
clubs, ant! is an attendant at the Helaware 
.Avenue Baptist I'hun h. 

PERSOXAL CHRONOLOG Y— 
William Hiinli-r Orciitt was Imni at 
/ioslon. A/ass., Xoi't-inlier lit, ISJ^i ; 
icax fiiiicatcii in the f<iil>lic sihoois of 
Boston anJ Cam/iriiii^f, atui f^raJiialed from I/a/TarJ 
ColUi^e ill ISii!) : shiditJ law at //an-ar,/ Law School, 
(iiitl loas ailmitli-il to the har of Massaehusftls in lS7i> ; 
fraiticeil law in Boston, ISi-i-^S'J .■ 7i'as a/i/iointt'il 
/iitlx'i' of till- Dislrift Court in Midillrsex amnty in 
ISSJ : married I.eafif Sloan of Buffalo Jinir .>,. tSW) ; 
lias praitii'fd Ia7(i in Buffalo since /.S'.S'.'y. 



completing a public-school training at l^owell, in a 
state famous for its educational system, he pursued a 
course in mining and engineering at the .\la.s.sachu.setls 
Institute of Technology, which has sent out nvniy of 
the scientilic leailers of the day. He graduated thence 
in 1X72 with the degree of Bachelor of Sciences. 




/©auriCC JB. iPatCb lia^ made applied science 
the stiuly of a lifetime, and has become a recognized 
authority on the subject of metallurgy. He is a son 
of the Pine Tree State, and has enjoyed the double 
advantage of a broad education in the I-'.ast an<l 
a large prai tical e.\|x;ricncf in the West. .\fter 



nil. 1. 1 AM II. OKCfTT 

Mr. Patch cho.'ie as a field for his talents and 
attainments the remote western regions containing 
the mines for whose exjiloitalion he had e<|nip|>ed 
himself. Accordingly, the very year of his gradua- 
tion fountl him settled at (".eorgetown. fob, carrying 
on his profession as a mining engineer. For two 
year>i he remained there, .surveying mining i)roperties 
and working in the various de|>artnients of his call- 
ing. He then accepted an offer fr<im the Detroit iS: 
I jke Sii|)erior Copi>er Smelting Co., and betame the 
( hemist of the com|iany at Houghton, Mich. While 
in this [losition Mr. I'atch was able to follow a line 
of origin:d research which hiid always been attra( tive 
to him, and whiih he has piirsue<l unliriiijilv. imtil 



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he is now among the foremost copper metallurgists 
in the country. During these same years he was 
also establishing a wide reputation as a mine sur- 
veyor, chemist, and practical operator in mining and 
smelting, and in all the branches of his profession. 
Consequently, when the well-known t'alumet & 




but his work has been solely in the interest of the 
corporations by which he has been em])loyed, and 
which naturally desire to keep secret the processes 
that they have jierfected. For this reason Mr. Patch 
has never been able to write anything for publication, 
and the general public ha.s not profited, except 
indirectly, by his research. 

Mr. Patch has been a jirime mover in 
several successful financial undertakings. 
While residing in Michigan he helped to 
organize two lianks, the First National at 
Lake Linden and the Superior Savings 
Bank at Hancock, and was a director in 
both until he left the state. He is now a 
director of the Niagara Bank of Buffalo, 
and is interested in several mining com- 
panies. He is a member of the American 
Institute of Mining Engineers, and of the 
Engineers' Society of Western New York. 
He is a member and vestryman of St. 
John's Episcopal Church, Buffalo. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— 
Maurice Byron Patch was born at Otis- 
field, Me. , June 8, 1852 ; was educated 
in the public schools of Loicell, A/ass. , 
and graduated from the Massachusetts In- 
stitute of Technology in 1872 ; was em- 
ployed as a mining engineer in Colorado, 
187 2-7 Jt ; married Emily Isabella White 
of Lo7oell July (S, 1875 ; 7C'as chemist of the 
Detroit 6-' Lake Superior Copper Smelting 
Co., 1874-8(1, and superintendent of the 
Calumet iSf Hccla Mining Co.' s joorks at 
Lake Linden, Mich. , 18S6-.90 ; has been 
superintendent of the Buffalo Smelting 
Works of the same company since 1891. 



M.iURK K /I. I'.ATCH 

Hecla Mining Co. was pre|)aring to install a smelting 
plant at Lake Linden, Mich., they sought Mr. Patch 
a.s designer and superintendent of the work. He 
accepted the position, moved to Lake Linden, and 
remained there for five years, completing this con- 
tract and carrying on work in his special line. .At 
the end of this time he received a flattering offer 
from the same company to undertake similar work 
for them at Buffalo. He went to that city in Janu- 
ary, 1891, and became superintendent of the com- 
pany's works there ; and he still holds this position. 
In connection with his s])ecial i)ranch of .science, 
Mr. Patch has done much original work, and has 
made many discoveries of great jiractical utility : 



30bn Id. IRobinSOn, president of 
the Robinson Bros. I.iunberCo. of North 
Tonawanda, N. Y., is one of the solid, 
conservative business men whose life shows the 
rewards that may be obtained from ])rudence, close 
attention to business, and strict integrity. The 
I'onawandas constitute one of the chief centers of 
the lumber trade in the I'nited States. The fact 
is due to the eflbrts of such men as Mr. Robinson, 
who have had the foresight and courage to invest 
their capital in the development tW" this important 
business at the foot of the lakes. 

Mr. Robinson has been the architect of his own 
fortunes. At the age of fourteen he was left to care 
for himself. His education was therefore necessarily 
limited to such as could be obtained at the common 
schools, supj)lemented by attendance at night schools 



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and I)) careful rcaditifj. He first went to Hiiffalo 
tthen aljout seventeen years old, remaining there and 
thereabouts for a few years. His father had been 
engaged in the hnnber l)iisiness, and it was natural 
lor the son to coniern himself with thi.- same industry. 
Then he went to Detroit, and obtained emi>loyment 
with one of the large lumber manufacturers there. 
Hy his lidelity, intelligence, and determination to 
master the business, he soon obtained the best posi- 
tion at the disposiil of his employers. 

But he was not satisfied to remain working for 
others. Having accpiired a thorough knowledge of 
the calling and a moderate lapital, he iiecame inter- 
ested with his brothers in the wholesale lumber liusi- 
ness in Detroit. I'he coniern began operations in 
a small way, but was at once successful and grew 
steadily. Having concluded that their business could 
be carried on more advantageously at 
North Tonawanda, the comjany moved 
thither in the latter \an of 1«88. One 
of Mr. Robinson's brothers retired from 
the finn before the removal of the busi- 
ness from Detroit. The other died June 
.{<», IHHlt. Mr. Robinson soon after 
ward purchased the interest held by his 
brother, and for the last few years has 
been practically the sole owner of the 
business. In 1X91 he brought his family 
to BufTalo, and has maintained his resi- 
dence there since. He is now known as 
an upright citi/en, and a firm and enthu- 
siastic l)eliever in a greater HufHilo. 

As soon a-s he went to Tonawanda Mr 
Robinson liegan to take a prominent part 
in promoting the welfare of the place, 
and es|)ecially of the trade in which he 
was engaged. He has fre(|uently been 
called ui>on to visit both the national 
and state capitals in the interest of the 
Twin Cities. He has been twice elected 
president of the Tonawanda Lumber 
man's As.sociation, serving in that ca|Kic 
ity during the great strikes of l.S!t2 and 
IH!i:!, and conducting the affairs of the 
a.s,sociation with the s;igacity and firmius.s 
which finally resulted in an amicable 
adjustment of all disputed matters. He 
has served as vice president of the Lum- 
ber Kxchange Hank, North Tonawanda, 
for si'veral years, and has al.so been twice 
elected presiilcnt of the National Association of 
Wholesale Lumber Dealers. 

In private life Mr. Robinson is of ipiiet, unassum- 
ing manners, and is approachable by both old and 



young. He is fond of outdoor s]M>rts, and is an 
expert angler. He is an official memlHrr of the 
Delaware Avenue Methodist C'hvirch, and takes great 
interest in charitable and religious work. He was 
one of the founders and supi>orlers of the Buffalo 
Ophthalmic Hospital. He is a meml>er of the Biif 
fak). Acacia, and Liberal clulw, and the Buffalo 
Historical Society. He is also a Knight Templar, 
a .■i2d degree Mason, and a Noble of the .Mystic 
Shrine. In |)olitics he is a Republican, and taki-s 
pride in attending the primaries, l)elieving that this 
duty is as important :is voting, and should lie dis 
charged by every good citizen. He has never 
aspired to |M)litical office. 

/' K RSO XA I. Cll ROXOLOG Y— John 
lVi//<>ug/i/>Y Rohimon was horn in Sitmof county, On- 
tario, Oitohi-r I!,, ISiN : marrif,/ Malilila Oxfnhnm 




JOH\ II h'oltlSSOS 

May A^, 1S7J : H'a\ cvniifclfd jcit/i thf liimbfr hiisi- 
nrss in Detroit, lS7--i-A','i : estahliahrJ a lumbrr husi 
nfss at North TonaiiHtnila, X )', /'// /.S'.V.V, anJ ha\ 
liveJ in liuffalo \inif. 



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Charles JF. TlabOl' i*^ a Buffalonian whose 
reputation is at lea.st state-wide. That he is thus 
generally and favorably known is due to the fact 
that he was the head of the state legal department 
for four years, and as attorney general had the dis- 
])osal of a large number of complicated (|uestions, 




( //.lA'/.ES F. TAROR 

and the ]jreparation and presentation in court of 
several cases of the greatest imjjortance. 

Mr. Tabor is a native of the Wolverene State, but 
he was brought to Erie county, New York, when 
about two years of age. He received what was then 
deemed a good education, attending various acade- 
mies in western .New York that had more than a 
local reputation. Finishing his school course in 
18(j(), he began at once the study of law ; and in 
November, 1X03, he was admitted to the bar. While 
studying law .Mr. Talior also taught school for three 
winters. In IXfiH he formed a copartnership with 
Thomas Corlett, afterward a justice of the Supreme 
Court. This connection continued for si.\ years. 
Then Mr. Tabor jjracticed alone until ISS.'!, when 



he formed a ]jartnership with William F. Shechan. 
The firm wa.s afterward enlarged by the admission 
of E. E. Coatsworth and John Cunneen, and became 
one of the best-known firms in western New York. 
Since Mr. Sheehan moved to New York, in the fall 
of 18t)4, Mr. Tabor has been associated with L. t'. 
Wilkie. 

Like so many lawyers, Mr. Tabor has 
been for many years intimately connected 
with politics. He is a Democrat and a 
strong party man. He has held many 
public offices, the first of which was 
that of commissioner of excise for Erie 
county. He was also a member of the 
board of supervi.sors of Erie county, 
representing the town of Lancaster. He 
spent two years in the legislature, sent 
thither by a majority of the voters of the 
4th district of Erie county. 'This was in 
187(5 and 1877. In 188.5 he was ap- 
pointed deputy attorney general of the 
state of New York, and served as such 
for two years. Tlis work here brought 
him prominently into view, and gave him 
the Democratic nomination for the posi- 
tion of attorney general. He was tri- 
um])hantly elected in 1887 and re-elected 
in 1889. After the expiration of his four 
years of service at the head of this impor- 
tant department, he returned to Buffalo 
and resumed his large private practice. 

While acting as attorney general Mr. 
'Tabor was called upon to handle a num- 
ber of notable ca.ses. One of these 
involved the constitutionalitv of the .so- 
called electrocution law, which substi- 
tuted death by electricity for hanging 
a.s the capital pimishment of the state. 
'This law was fought with great vigor. 
The large electrical companies united in opposing it, 
and it was charged that, imjjelled by commercial 
reasons, they supplied the means for fighting the 
law. They were backed, moreover, by a strong 
iniblic sentiment, many people believing that elec- 
tricity was not sufficiently well understood to be 
used in taking human life. 'The ca.se was not settled 
until the Supreme Court of the L'nited States pa.ssed 
ujion it. Mr. 'Tabor came off triumphant. .Another 
important victory was won by Mr. labor in the ca.se 
that established the state's right to tax corporations 
for doing business in this state, although their capital 
might be invested in government bonds. 

.Mr. Tabor also succeeded, while attorney general, 



)litainini; the dei 



of the Court of Aijiieals 



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of this state, that the great sugar tnist, formed by 
the union of different corporations for the |)ur|)Ose 
of controlling the |)rodu<t and price of refined sugar, 
was in violation of corporate law, anil in securing 
juilgments vacating the charter; of the different 
cor|)orations that had entered the syndicate. 

PERSONAL CnROXOLOGY—ChiirUs /•'. 
Tiihor 7iHii horn at While Pi^^fon, St. Jouf<h fimnt\\ 
Mich., Jiiiif 28, IS4I : i"iix admitted to the har in 
IStj-i : married Phebe S. Andrews of Pembroke, 
X. Y., December 24, ISUS ; was member 0/ assent- 
biy, 1S7U-77, deputy attorney _!;enera/, ]SSil~S7, an I 
attorney j^enera I, IS.SS-.'>1 : has practiced /aic in Buf- 
falo since 180 '>. 



CbOIUrtS CinMC ^^as a Yorkshire lad who 
<'anie to America to seek his fortune, 
and who, for the (ast thirty years, has 
made his home in Buffalo. 

His education was olitained in the 
common schools of his native place, and 
ended with his fourteenth year. He 
jjo.ssessed an energetic, ambitious spirit, 
and after a few years' work in England 
he iletermined to seek the wider ojjpor- 
tunities that a newer ( tiuntry afforded. 
.Accordingly, at the age of nineteen, he 
came to the I'nited States. He settled 
in St. I.awrence county, New York, and 
followed the occu|iation of a farmer there 
for the next ten years. Uut his instincts 
were those of the trader and manu- 
facturer, and in the spring of 1.S(i.") he 
dis|)osed of his fanii, antl became foreman 
for J. H. frawforil it Co., a firm of 
canal forwarders at ( )swego, N. Y. 

This proved to be the turning |)oint in 
his career — the first steji which led him 
ultimately to Kunfalo, and to the exten- 
sive and prosiKjrous busine.ss that he now 
carries on. He had been with Crawford 
iNc Co. only a year when they moved 
their head<|uarters to Hiiflalo, taking him 
with them. Two years later the firm 
discontinued business, and Mr. Tindle 
obtained employment with Toles iV 
Sweet, canal forwarders anil dealers in 
coojierage stock. There he remained 
for the next twelve years. Incoming 
purchasing agent and salesman, and 
learning many details of the coo|)erage business. 

In this industry .Mr. Tindle dis<erne<l a favorable 
ojx^ning, and in January. ISHt), he began business 
for himself as a joIiIh-t. A {v\\ months later he 



extended his o|>erations, and l>egan the manufacture 
of coo|K'rage slock at mills in Canada. .-Vfter '(\\<: 
years he sold his interest in these mills, and for the 
next few years devoted his entire attention to his 
jobbing business. In IKXS his .son-in-law, Willis K. 
Jack.son, was taken into iiartnership, uniler the firm 
name of Thonuus 'Tindle iV C"o. I'nder Mr. 'Tindle's 
shrewd and careful management the business grew 
rapidly, and it soon became neces.sary to undertake 
once more the manufacture of the stock in which 
the firm dealt. Five mills, therefore, all located 
within easy reach of the Mii higan forests, were suc- 
cessively built or otherwise accitiired. 'They turn 
out a vast amount of coo|K'rage stock, all of which 
is handled by the firm at its Buffalo head>|uarters. 
In addition, a large amount of stock is bought from 




THOM.AS TISni.E 



Other manufacturers, including the entire output 
of .several stave mills in Canada. 'The fimi of 
'Tindle & Co. sells its products all over the < ounlry, 
from Maine to California, though \'i-w N'ork, 



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MEN OF NEW \\)RK —WESTERS SECT/UX 



Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Minnesota consti- 
tute its principal markets. 

Such a business affords ample scojje for the talents 
and energies of any man, and Mr. 'I'indle has wisely 
confined his attention to it for the most [)art. He is, 
however, a director of the Niagara Hank, a member 




AXSLKV W/LCOX 

and trustee of Asbury Methodist I'',i)isco|)al Church, 
and a member of tlie Ancient Order of Inited 
Workmen. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Thomas 

Tindle was born at Broomfleet, Yorkshiie, Eng/anf, 
April 7, IfiSC : ri'rt.v educated in common schools in 

England ; came to the United States in ISHi), and en- 
gai^ed in farming in St. Lawrence county, N. Y. ; rt'as 
agetit for canal forwarders in Buffalo, 1860—80 ; mar- 
ried Harriet Braithwaite of Ogdenslmrg, N. Y. , April 
it, 18.'i0 : has carried on a jobbing and manufacturing 
business in cooperage stock at Buffalo since 1880. 



Busies TlOilCOr is still a young man. having' 
barely passed two score years ; but a strong personal 



force, displayed in all his dealings with his fellow- 
men, has given him a place in the esteem of the 
community that few men attain at his age. Endowed 
with an acute sense of right and wrong in public 
afTairs, and with a sturdy determination to do a lion's 
share toward the correction of the political and 
social abuses of the times, Mr. Wilcox 
has do.sely identified himself with all the 
reform movements of recent years, and 
has been a tower of strength to the cause 
of good government. He is a type of 
the best citizenship to be found in Ameri- 
can life. 

Horn near Augusta, (Ja. , just before 
the breaking out of the Civil War, young 
Wilcox spent his boyhood amid some of 
the most stirring scenes of that great and 
fierce struggle. In the last year of the 
war his family left the South, anil finall) 
settled in Connecticut, which was his 
father's native state. The second ten 
years of his life were jiassed at .New 
Haven, first in attending a preparatory 
school, and afterward as a student at Yale 
College. Then came a year of rest and 
travel, succeeded by a year of iiost- 
graduate study at I'niversity College, 
Oxford, England. 

Having moved to Huffalo in 1)S7(>, and 
been admitted to the bar two years later, 
Mr. Wilcox began a brilliant career, and 
soon attained a foremost rank among the 
lawyers of western New York. For ten 
years the firm of Allen, Movius & Wilcox 
was one of the strongest at the Huffalo 
bar. Mr. Wilcox, while a Ibri ible and 
brilliant speaker, has devoted most of his 
time and attention professionally to office 
law rather than to the trial of cases in the 
He enjoys a large and lucrative practice. 
Mr. Wilcox has never had any aspirations in the 
tlirection of office holding, and many phases of 
political life are particularly distasteful to him. In- 
de])endence has lieen his watchword from the start, 
and the independent movement in national politics 
beginning in 1X84, ajjpcaled most strongly to him, 
and had his heartiest sympathy and support. He 
was a leader of the movement in his part of the state. 
Outside of politics, also, Mr. Wilcox has labored 
energetically for the cause of reform. The liufTalo 
Charity Organization Society — an association which 
has been the forerunner of many similar societies in 
the country, and which is founded on the principle 
that the best way to aid the poor is to helji ihcui to 



.ourts 



M/:.y (1/- x/:ir vokk -h'estekx s/:crfo\ 



ITT 



hel|) themselves — coiinteil him among its first and 
most active members. The uni|ualifie(l smiess of 
this |>ra( tical ( harily owes not a little to his energy 
and devotion to its interests. 

In the social life of Ituffalo Mr. W il< ox has been 
I onspiciioiis. He is a prominent member of the 
IttifTalo C'liil), and was its president in I Hit.'! ; and he 
lias taken a more or less active |iarl in many so< ietii-s, 
lioth social and charitable, of his city, l-'or ten 
years he has regularly delivered a course of lectures 
at the L'niversity of niiffalo, where he ha.s the pro- 
fes.sorship of medical jiirisiinidence. While in < ollege 
anil in the early years after graduation, Mr. Wih o\ 
wrote several m.aga/.ine articles; but in recent limes 
he has found little leisure for luirely literary work. 

/'F.A'SOXA/. CHROXOI. OCV—An^/n II //au 
H'lis born iil Suininervillf, Gti., faniiarx 
■i7, IS^'id : f^reparfii for colle;^f at Hopkins 
(intmmar School, Neto Haven, Conn., ami 
;^raJuali-J from Yak ColUf^f in lS7Jf : 
sliiiiifil al L'nivi'rsity t'ollei^e, Ox/orJ, /Tz/j,'- 
/<///</, !S7.'i-70 : 7t<as aiiniiltfii lo the bar in 
IS7S : marrieii Cornelia C. Riimsey oj 
Ihiffalo January 17, IS7ft, ami her sister, 
Mary Grace Rnmsey, Xor ember 20, 
ISS-i ; was in the /inn of Crim'ley, Min'ius 
Sy Wilcox, 1S82-HS, in that of Allen, 
Moriiis o?" Il'itcox, ISS-i-HJ, and in that 
of A/irriiis G;' Wilcox, 18f>2-flS ; has been 
associateii loith Worthini^ton C .\finer since 
early in 1S!)>,. 



lE^\Var^ applcyar& isaself ma<le 
man, whose life illiislrates the power of 
will and honest effort to co|ie siicce.ssfull) 
with adverse circumstances. In speaking 
of him it is difficult to state the facts of 
his life without seeming to intrude upon 
his privacy, lor he l)elongs to the cl.xss of 
men who prefer that their work shall be 
the criterion of their worth. Mr. .Apple 
yartl wa.s born in Yorkshire, I-'.ngland, 
within sight of the home of the famous 
r.ronte family of novelists. He atteiiiled 
the |>arish .school a .short time ; but at 
the early age of eight years was ])iit to 
work in a factory for half a day, aiicl 
at thirteen was taken from s< hool alto- 
gether and employetl in a mill. The 
boy had, however, learned enough at .school to 
want to know more, and with the aid of night 
schools and by home study he filled out a given 
I oiirse, took a government examinaliun, anil re- 
ceived a certificate. 



.About this time he was apprenticed to Mes.srs. 
liutterfield Brothers of Bradford, ICngland, to learn 
the business of a worsted spinner. When twenty 
five years old he embarked in biisine.ss for him.sell', 
a.s.sociating his brother with him a few years later. 
In the fall of 1H72 arrangements were made with 
William Hroadhead for the manufacture of alalia 
goods in the I'nited States. The next year, from 
plans drawn by Mr. .Appleyard, the great plant ol 
the Jamestown Worsted Mills was established, and 
put in o|>eration under his management. In |X7(>, 
having severed his relations with this com|>aiiv, he 
returned to luigland, and proi iireil for William 
Hroadhead X' Sons an eijuipment for al|>a<'a manii- 
fai tiire. The plant thus established has grown to 
mammoth |>ro|>ortions, anti to-day constitutes one 




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of the moNt valued and inijorlant industries of James- 
town. Mr. .Appleyard issu|>erintindent of the works. 
Not only in mercantile life, but also in soc iai, lit- 
erary, and religious < in Us, has Mr. .Appleyard been 
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St. (jeorge, and is a contributor to the journal of 
that body. He is the author of the " History of 
the Methodist Church in Jamestown," and of numer- 
ous poems, among which "An Ode to Sympathy" 
is highly regarded by critics. He is a member of 
the Methodist K]iisco]ial church, a local jireacher. 



CHARLES //. CORHETr 

and a Sunday-school superintendent. He was elected 
a delegate to the ( General Conference held i n New York 
in IHXX. His continued interest in education is evi- 
denced by his position a.s tnistee of Allegheny College. 

In politics Mr. Appleyard is an ardent Republi- 
can. While never a .seeker for office, he has served 
for three years as ])resident of the board of health of 
Jamestown, regarding iiis incumbency of that ]josi- 
tion as a duty to the ]jublic. In all the varied rela- 
tions of his full and active life he has the confidence 
and respect of business men and neighbors, and can 
be truly cla.ssed among the strong, conservative 
forces of American citizenship. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G V— E,hc<ard Af<- 
pleyard 7iias bnrn in llic parisli of Kfl;^lih'\\ Yoksliiir, 



England, April 15, 1HJ,() ; 7oas educated in the parisli 
school and by private study ; was apprenticed to a 
firm of worsted spintiers in 1855, and began business 
for himself in 1865 ; married Isabella Stott of Hali- 
fax, England, July 15, 1868 ; has been engaged in 
worsted and alpaca manufacture at JamestoJvn, N. Y., 
since 1873. 




CbarleS ti. COrbCtt has had an 

unusually .successful business career, and 
is deservedly popular in the political and 
social life of the town of Sherman, where 
he has lived for the past thirty years. For 
a quarter of a century the firm of Hart 
iS: Corbett, of which he is a member, 
has carried on a dry-goods and general - 
merchandi.se business in Sherman. The 
concern has steadily grown and prospered, 
and this is due in large measure to Mr. 
Corbett's energy and ability. He has 
known how to provide for the wants of 
the |iublic, and has spared no effort to 
that end ; and thus his business success 
may lie regarded as fairly earned. 

Political honors are not easily obtain- 
able by a Democrat in Chautauqua county, 
but Mr. Corbett has shown that personal 
popularity and special fitness for public 
life can overcome even so great odds as 
confront Democrats in that stronghold of 
Re])ublicanism. Three years after his 
reino\al to Sherman he was elected town 
clerk, and .served for three years, lcS74- 
70. In 18«'2 and 1«83 he acted as 
supervisor for the town of Sherman, and 
in the fall of 1882 he was elected to the 
legislature from the 1st assembly district 
of Chautauqua lounty by a majority of 
980 votes. In the legislature he was 
made ( hairman of the committee on charitable and 
religious institutions. His advice and a.ssistance 
are highly valued by his fellow -Democrats, and he 
has been for four years chairman of the Democratic 
county committee, and is at present its trea.surer. He 
is also a member of the Democratic state committee. 
Mr. Corbett was a country boy, born in Chautau- 
i|ua county and brought iqi on a farm. He attended 
llie district s( hools and Westfield .Academy, and 
then took a full commercial comse at the I'^astman 
Business College, I'oughkeepsie, N. Y. He thus 
accpiired an excellent theoretical business training, 
which he at once ])roceeded to put to practical use. 
lie entered tlu' dry -goods house of J. I'. Creen of 
Sliennan as a clerk, and remained there five years. 



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At the end of this time he determined to laiin<h out 
for himself. He accordinjjly liought the interest of 
|. M. L'oveney in the well-established firm of 
Coveney & Hart, and began the successful business 
career outlined above. 

Mr. Corl)ett ha.s taken an active part in all 
public affairs in Sherman. He was one of the 
orj,'ani/ers of the State Ikmk there, and is its vice 
[iri'sident. He is also treasurer of the school boaril 
of the town, and chief of the fire dejwrtment. In 
the Ma.sonic and other fraternities he is a prominent 
member. In ISill he w;ls drand Master of the 
.■\ncient Order of I'nited Workmen of the State of 
.New V'ork, and he has been for five years a member 
of the (!rand Lodjje finance (ommittee, of which he 
is at present chairman. He is a Ma-son of the '.Vl<\ 
tlegree, and a member of the following organiza- 
tions: Olive Lotlge, .No. .">7;"), !■'. iV .X. 
.\l. : Westfield Chapter. No. 2:5!l, R. \. 
.\l. ; Dunkirk t'ouncil, No. 2."), R. & S. 
M. : Hunkirk C'ommandery, No. -1(1, K. 
T. : Ismailia Temple, ( ). N. M. S. : and 
others. 

P/i/iSOXA I. CUK OXOL O G ) — 
( '/itirUi //. Corhett was horn al Afiihi, 
\. v., Octoher 5, ISliii ; was ((iuciilt'd in 
ilistriit Si'hools and Eastman /hisiness 
ColUi^f, PoHglikt-ff<sie, N. Y. ; was cli'ik 
in a liry-gooJs store at S/ifrnian, .\'. ) '. , 
ISOU-l 1 : married Xarcissa Dutton of 
S/urman May li, JW.'/ : nuis (Icctcd 
member of assemhly in ISS-i : has conJiicteil 
a i/ry-{;oo</s and general-merchandise husi- 
ness at Sherman since 1S7 1. 

lUUliam 3. Glenn lias achieved 
|)rominence in life at an unusually early 
age. The Kmpire State has produced few 
sons who have ilisplayed more activitv, 
energy, and ambition. In his brief 
career he has occupied himself in various 
pursuits, and ha.s .succeeded in so marked 
i degree that each occu|)ati<)n has become 
the stepping-stone to a higher one. He 
has been both printer and editor, and is 
an all-round news|>a|)er man. His edu 
cation was not so thorough as he desired, 
but he made the most of his opportuni 
ties in the village school at hansville, 
and later at Wellsville .Vcademy, from 
which he graduated at the age of seventeen years. 

.After finishing his school life he went to work as 
a printer in the office of the Wellsville Eef-orler, 
which was then edited bv the late Mnos W. IJarnes. 



Having learned the [)rinter's trade, and aci|uired 
e.\|)erience in the management of a newsjiaiter, Mr. 
(llenn purchaseti the well-known fula Patriot, in 
com|)any with Walter J. Heecher. In this work 
he soon made himself a tactor in the jiublic affairs 
of western New York, and though he had ju.st reached 
his majority, older men admired his ability, dili- 
gence, and zeal. 

News|)a|)er men and lawyers are naturally attracted 
to |)articipation in political affairs. Mr. Clenn has 
always been a devoted follower of the Republican 
jwrty. When only twenty -one years of age he was 
elected secretary and treasurer of the .Mlegany- 
county Republican committee, and held the |iosition 
four years. Sub-seipiently he was elected chairman 
of the same committee, and served in this cajjacity 
two years. .Vfter the inauguration of President 




\\ It 1 1 l.\l J CI.F.XX 

Harrison Mr. (llenn liecamc a candidate for the 
office of [Histmaster at Cuba. He was ap|>ointed, 
and duly confirmed by the senate, in the spring of 
ISSil, and held the position for nearly five vears. 



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He was called to party serviee in l.SDO as a member 
of the Repiililican state committee for the ;^4th 
congressional district, to which he was re-elected 
five times. The election of a Repuljlican house of 
re])resentatives in 1(S!)4 was followed by the re- 
organization of the executive offices of the body 




CI I. Ik' /./is //irK/:\ 

at the opening of the ")4th co;igress in December, 
iSil.'). The members of the New York delegation 
in the house selected as their candidate for the jiosi- 
tion of doorkeeper William J. (llenn of Cuba, and 
after a spirited contest Mr. (llenn was nominated in 
caucus for the office, and was duly elected. 'I'he 
position is one of great responsibility, and involves 
the care of much government property, and the 
supervision of a large force of emjjloyees. Mr. 
(;ienn is probably the youngest man ever chosen to 
the office — a fad that attests the esteem and respect 
of his friends and supporters. His success in secur- 
ing this responsible post has done much to increa.se 
his ])roniinence in the ranks of Republican party 
leaders in western New \'ork. 



Mr. C'llenn believes in fraternal societies, and is a 
member of several such organizations, including 
t:uba Lodge, No. 306, F. & A. M.; Valley Point 
Chapter, R. A. M., Cuba; St. John's Commandery, 
K. T., Olean; Star Tent, No. 12, K. (). T. M., 
Cuba. He attends the Episcopal church. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— 
W'illiam Johnson Glenn ivas Iwni at Daiis- 
-.•ille, N. Y., July 2, 1862; urns educate il 
ill common schools ami at Wellsvillc 
( .v. Y. ) Academy : learned the printer'' s 
trade, and loarked on neivspapcrs, 1S79- 
<S') ,• married Jessie A. Goodrich of IVells- 
ville Deccmlier SI, 1882 ; became one of 
the proprietors and editors of the Cuha 
•' Patriot" January 1, 1883; was post- 
master of Cuba, N Y, 1889-9^; was 
elected doorkeeper of the house of repre- 
seiitati'i'cs of the SJ^th congress in Decem- 
ber. 189-). 




CbaiiCS 1l3iCl;CV, county judge and 
surrogate of .Niagara county, has risen bv 
his own imaided efforts, and in the face 
of many obstacles, to a high place in the 
regard of the community. This l)ecomes 
the more noteworthy when it is remem- 
bered that Judge Hickey is not yet forty 
years old, and that, owing to lack of 
scholastic opportunities in early life, he 
was in his twenty -eighth year when ad- 
mitted to the bar. 

Judge Hickey is a native of Niagara 
county, and his early education was re- 
ceived in the district schools of the town 
' of Somerset. His father died when 

Charles was a young lad, and his mother 
was left with no means and with a large 
family on her hands. Under such cir- 
cumstances each one must do his part, and from 
the time he was ten years old Charles worked for 
the neighboring formers whenever there was work 
to be done. He had, however, a great desire to 
obtain an education ; and in the winter months, 
when farm work was not pressing, he made good use 
of such opportunities as the country schools afforded. 
When he was seventeen years old he decided to try 
his fortunes in the West, and betook himself to 
the lumber regions of Michigan, where for two 
years he was engaged in rafting logs on the rivers, 
and in general work in tlie mills and pine woods 
of that state. He then returned to his native 
(ounty, and s])ent two years in the service of the 
Rome, Walerlown \- ( )gclensburg railroad, where 



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ISI 



he was employed in lonstnu tion work aiul on 
i!ravcl trains. 

He was now a yoimn man of twenty-one, with 
considerable experienie in different kinds of work ; 
but his earnings up to this time had been freely 
given to his widowed mother, and the fulfillment of 
his desires for a l)etter education and a more 
important ])lace in the world seemed still (iir olT. 
I'Veling that the time had come when, if ever, he 
should devote himself to these ends, he entered 
l.ockport Union School. He was obliged to inter- 
rupt his course of study from time to time to earn 
money by teaching, and in this calling he met with 
su< h success that in a short time he was chosen 
president of the Niagara County 'I'eachers' As.socia- 
tion. But he had determined to l)ecome a lawyer, 
and while still in S( hool he began reading law in 
the ottice of John V.. I'ound. I'inally. 
in 1MX4, he was admitted to the bar. 
The following year he commenced prac- 
tice in l.ockport as a member of the firm 
of Hi(key <.S: Hopkins: and for the |>ast 
ten years his practice has grown steadil) , 
and he has established an enviable repu- 
tation for ability, fairness, and inlegrily. 
He iiracticed alone from ixitl till I.SIM, 
when he formed a |)artiiership with 
.Augustus Morris, under the firm name 
of Hickey & Morris, that lasted iinlil 
Judge Hickey's elevation to the bench 
January 1, ISiHi. 

Like many able lawyers. Judge Hickey 
has given considerable attention to poli 
tics. Soon after his .-idmission to the bar 
he was ele( led justice of the |ieace for the 
city of l.ockport, but resigned after one 
year's service. I.ater, in iNil'J, he was 
ajipointed city attorney of Lockport, and 
held the |)Osition until he becanie county 
judge. The people of l.ockport ha\e 
I ause to be grateful to him for his skill 
ful care of their interests during these 
four years, for in all that time not a 
single judgment was rendered against the 
city. Judge Hickey was elected to his 
present office by a majority of 27<HI, 
probably the largest ever received by a 
candidate in Niagara countv. He is the 
first |)erson to hold the c ombinetl offices of 
county judge and .surrogate in his county ; 
and the |)rediction may safely be matle that he will fill 
the responsible |iosilion with c redit and dislim lion. 

Judge Hie key is a .Mason and an < )dcl Kellow, and 
is president of the Odd I'ellows' Home .\s.soc ialion 



of New York state, whic h maintains an institution 
at Locki)ort. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Clui, Us Hickey 
-was horn at Soiiifnft, Niiij^ani coiinly, N. )'., April 
IS, ISol ; K'ds eiliiciitfd in ilislriil schools ami at 
L^ock/>orf Union School ; n'as ailmittftl to thf bar in 
October, ISS^ : married L'rances C. Lambert of Lock- 
port No-remher i?.-5, ISSli ; was city attorney of Lock- 
port, lS!t>-Ur, : practical law in Lockport, lSS.'>-.'>'t , 
has been county yi/tlt;e ami snrroi^iite of Ni^r ■■/> > ,,>nnty 
since January 1, ISfHl. 



]E^\var^ IDamcl Xovcri^oe of Cui>a, n.\ ., 

has already ])as.sed the "threescore years and ten " 
allotted .as an ortlinary lifetime ; but as a practicing 
lawyer and president of a Kank, he gives ample evi- 
dence that his (lavs of usefulness are not vet over. 




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.Mr. i.overidge was born liefore the close of the 
first cjuarter of the century, among the Litchfield 
hills of ('cinnec til iil, and there he |ias.sed his voiilh. 
Having completed his prepiralorv studies, he entered 



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Trinity College, Hartford, and studied there for two 
years. He then left college, having determined to 
become a law)er, and began his legal studies at Lex- 
ington, Va. He had thus the benefit of a more varied 
ex|)erience of men and places than usually falls to 
the lot of the young law student. He was admitted 
to the bar in March, 1853, at Rochester, and from 
that time his life has been passed in western 
New York. 

At first he opened an ofiice alone at Castile, Wy- 
oming county, and there obtained his first practical 
knowledge of the life of a lawyer. About three years 
later, in May, 1856, he moved to Cuba, and entered 
into partnership with his brother, Noah P. Lover- 
idge. For ten years the brothers worked together 
to build up a practice, but at the end of that time 
Noah moved to Michigan, and for a little more 
than a year Edward practiced alone. He then asso- 
ciated with him in his practice Harlan J. Swift, now 
of Buffalo, and this connection lasted fifteen years. 
For the jjast ten years he has practiced in partner- 
ship with John C. Leggett. Mr. Loveridge has 
thus been actively engaged in the practice of his pro- 
fession for more than forty years, and has conducted 
a vast amount of legal business. 

Aside from the law, Mr. Loveridge's greatest in- 
terest has been banking. He has been president of 
the Cuba National Hank for twenty -eight years, and 
his successfiil management of the affairs of that in- 
stitution reflects great credit U|)()n his business al)il- 
ity. Other similar institutions have been glad to 
avail themselves of his counsel, and he has been for 
many years a director of the Citizens' National l!;iiik 
of Friendship, N. Y. 

Mr. Loveridge has always taken great interest in 
public affairs, and in his )ounger days he played a 
prominent part in the political life of his neighbor- 
hood. He served as member of aiwembly in the 
legislatures of 1862 and IXO.'J, and was a delegate 
to the Repulilican national convention of 18(i4. He 
was su|)ervisor of the town of Cuba for two years. 
In 187() he was nominated for representative in con- 
gress. 

Mr. Loveridge has been for years a member of the 
Ma.sonic fraternity, and has taken an active part in 
its affairs. He is a Knight i'emplar, and for three 
years ( 1874-7(5 ) was Commander of St. John's Com- 
mandery, No. 24, Olean ; and for fourteen years he 
was High Priest of Valley Point Chapter, Cuba. 
He is a member of the I'Lpiscopal church. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— EduHini 
Daniel Lm'criiige was born at Ah^w Milford, Conn. , 
December 11, 182 Jf : com/<lcted his education at Trin- 
ity College, lltulford. Conn.: .studied law, and •fUis 



admitted to the bar in 1853 ; married Frances Emily 
Bartlettof Granby, Mass., October 19, 1854; prac- 
ticed law at Castile, N'. V. , 1853-56 ; 7oas member 
of assembly, 1862-63 ; has practiced law at Cuba, 
N. Y. , since 1836 ; has been president of the Cuba 
National Bank since 1868. 



3atUCS XOW has served his country in military 
and in civil stations. To an intensely practical life 
he has added a deep interest in |)ublic affairs, and 
has long been a prominent factor in his community. 
Though not .American-born, he has made a record 
of which any .•\merican might justly be proud. His 
parents, originally from Scotland, went to Niagara 
county from Toronto, Canada, when he was only 
two years old, so that all his early educational 
training was obtained in the Lhiited States. He 
attended the common schools of Lockport and 
Lewiston, and was for three years a pupil in the 
Collegiate Institute at Wilson, N. Y. This excellent 
education he turned to account in the very matter- 
of-fact business of farming, as well as in teaching 
district schools in the winter for seven years. He 
continued in the.se occupations until appointed 
deputy collector and inspector of customs for the 
district of Niagara in 18(il, an office he resigned 
a )ear later to enter the military service of the 
United .States. 

Mr. Low had been foremost in recruiting com- 
pany B of the l'29th New York volunteers, and when 
it was organized he was commissioned 1st lieutenant, 
and mustered into the service .August 22, 18G2. 
He went at once to the front, and took part in the 
defense of Baltimore and in the West Virginia 
campaign. Two years later he joined the .\rmy 
of the Potomac, and was present at the memorable 
battles of Spottsylvania, 'Tolopotomy, North .Vnna, 
Cold Harbor (where he was wounded ), and Hattrher's 
Run. He was also [present at the siege of Peters- 
burg, and at the surrender of Lee at .Appomattox. 
During his service he was twice jiromoted, first to 
the rank of captain and afterward to that of major, 
retiring with the latter rank at the close of the war. 

When peace was restored. Major Low returned 
to New York state, and was .soon api)ointed by 
President Johnson ])Ostmaster at Suspension Bridge. 
In this position he gave such satisfaction that he was 
reappointed by President Crant in 1870. 

In state affairs Major Low has taken an active 
interest, and has three times represented the 2d dis- 
trict of Niagara county in the a.ssembly, serving the 
people intelligently and faithfiilly. He is an ardent 
and vigorous Republican, and has been repeatedly 
honored when his party has been in power in the 



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nation, by apixjintments to federal offices. I'resiiient 
Arthur niatle him United States consul at t'lifton, 
Ontario, ami President Harrison appointed him 
collet tor of customs for the district of Niagara. He 
held the latter office for five years. Since the 
expiration of his term he has conducted the business 
of a coal merchant, and has carried on a 
farm. 

.•\t home Major Low has served for six 
years as president of the board of edu- 
cation of Sus|x;nsion Bridge, and has 
devoted time and attention to securing 
a high standard in the schools under the 
care of th^- boanl. He attends the Con- 
gregational Church, and has l>een for 
many years president of its board of trus- 
tees. He is a member of the .V.n.lI.W., 
the Knights of Honor, the (J. A. R.. 
and the Loyal Legion. His neighbors 
and to\vn.smen look to him for leadershiji 
in every movement having a worthy ob- 
ject in view. Conservative in his ideas, 
he is nevertheless open to conviction on 
every ipiestion arising in the course of 
public ami jwlitical events ; and he has 
thus won and retained the confidence of 
all who know him. 

J'ERSOX.-tL CJ/A'O.VO/. OoV— 
James I.triv ituis horn at Toronio, Cttnaiin, 
January 2!f, ISSf! : 7i>as eihicatfil in thf 
/•ii/i/ii Sihoo/s of Xias^ara county, X. J'.. 
anii Wilson (X. )'. ) Colle;^iatf Institute: 
marrieit Amanda Barnes of Caml<ria, 
X. v., March 2r,, Ifi.'tS : sert'eJ in the 
Union army, lSH2-il.'t : was af<f>ointeii 
fH^stmaster at Susf<eniion lirili^e, X. ) . , 
/// iSli.'i, ami was reappointcii in IS7(t ; 
was memher of assembly, ISHt-Sl, L'nitei/ 
States coniul at Clifton, CanaJa, ISSJ- 
Sl , ami collector of customs for the ili strict <f A'^ia^ara, 
tSfM}-!l't ; has carried on the husiness of a coal mer- 
chant at Xiaji^ara Falls since ISI'i. 



CbarlC? t>01ll-\i /IDUlCr, nieml)erofa.s.sembly 
in iSitli from the l^t distrii I of Cattaraugus county, 
is a native of thii iciuutv, and has s|)ent his wlmlc 
life there. 

Mr. Miller was iiorn in the town of Machixs, near 
the close of the first h:df of the century. Like all 
country l>oys of that day, he receivetl his early edu- 
cational training in the district school, whi<h he be- 
gan to attend at the age of four years. .At the out- 
break of the Civil War Mr. Miller w.xs a youth of 
seventeen, attending school, and looking forward lo 



a u.seful commercial career. He gave up all his |)er- 
sonal plans, however, and enlisted in the l(».">th regi- 
ment New York volunteers. In the cam|taign of 
lH(i'J he |urtii i|>ated with his regiment in all the 
lattles from Cedar Mountain to .Vntielan). His 
regiment suffered so much in these engagements that 




it w.Ts consolidated, in .Man h, ixii.'i, with the '.Mth 
New York volunteers, then lommanded by Ciencral 
Adrian R. Root of Huffalo. In this regiment Mr. 
Miller served at the battle of (leltysburg, and in 
('■rant's cam|)aign l>efore Petersburg and Riihmond. 
Having been hon<>rably discharged from the arm), 
.\Ir. Miller resimied his eduialion, spending :ievend 
years in the academy at .Arcade, N. Y., and at 
driflith Institute, Springville, N. Y. He then took 
up the occupation of teaching, and devoted himsc-lf 
to this |)rofession during the winter sc.isons for 
twelve years. .At the end of that time he moved to 
Delevan, N. Y., and engaged in the business of a 
fiirniture dealer and an undertaker, in |>arlnership 
with ( ieorge H. Whiting, umler the firm name of 



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Miller \- Whiting. This connection lasted for 
twelve years. During this time Mr. Miller was ap- 
pointed to the railway postal service. The position 
of mail clerk on a railroad is one that requires close 
application, and great accnra< y and iniickness. Mr. 
Miller was conne< ted with the service for four years. 




( l/,lh-L/:s /l/:.\h'Y MII.I.F.R 

traveling on various roads, including the Western 
New \ork iV Pennsylvania, the .New V'ork Central, 
and the Mrie ; and during his term of service was 
promoted, u])on his record in competitive examina- 
tions, through all the several grades from mail-route 
me.ssenger to head clerk. 

\\\ 1.SM2 Mr. Miller a.ssociated himself with 1). 1). 
Smith in the drug and grocery business, at \'orkshire, 
N. Y. The interests centering in a country store 
are many and varied, and no branch of knowledge 
comes amiss there. Mr. Miller's training as a mail 
clerk was useful to him, for he was made deputy post- 
master, and had charge of the Yorkshire jmst office. 

Always a strong Republican, Mr. Miller had long 
been prominent in countv affairs bef(jre he was called 



to represent the people in the legislature of the state. 
He was first elected a member of the board of super- 
visors of Cattaraugus county in 1877, and since that 
time he has served on the board thirteen years. In 
1894 he filled the responsible jjosition of chairman 
of the board. His well-known devotion to the best 
interests of the county received a fitting 
recognition when, in 1895, he was unan- 
imously chosen the Re])ublican candidate 
for member of a.ssembly from the 1st 
Cattaraugus district, and was dul\' elected. 
In the session of the legislature that fol- 
lowed he was a member of the important 
committee on taxation and retrenchment, 
and of the committees on banks and excise. 
Mr^ Miller is a trustee of the Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church of Yorkshire, and 
a member of Arcade Lodge, No. 419, F. 
& A. M., and of Delevan Lodge, No. 
r.K), I. O. O. F. 

PERSONAL CHROXOLOGY— 
Charles Henry Miller was horn al Machias, 
N. v., June 2, ISJf^ : served hi the Union 
army, 18(i2-0r> : joas ecliiea/ed at Arcade 
{N. Y.) Academy and Griffith Institute, 
Springrille, 2V. Y. : engaged in Imsiness in 
Dele-c'an, N. Y., 1872-84, and in the 
raihcav mail service, 1812—70 ; estah- 
lished a drug and grocery Imsiness at 
i 'orkshire, N. Y. , in 1882, and has carried 
on the same since: married Emma L. 
Williams of Arcade, N. Y., December l!i, 
1877 ; was chairman of the hoard of super- 
visors of Cattaraugus county in 189^, and 
memier of assemhlv from the 1st Catta- 
raugus-county district in 1896. 



artbur .IB. Ottawav? proves by his 

career thai a young man can win success 

at home. The essential conditions of success are 

character, energy, and ability ; and these fiictors will 

be decisive anywhere. 

Mr. ( )ttaway has spent his whole life in Chau 
tauipia county. He was born in Mina, among the 
Chautauc|ua hills not for from the Pennsylvania line, 
and was brought up on a farm. His early education 
was acipiired in the district school and at Sherman 
Academy. In 187;) he moved to the \illage of 
Westfield, and attended the academy there, graduat- 
ing at the age of twenty-one. His training had 
included preparation for a college course ; but this 
was abandoned, and his subseiiuent education was 
such as one gets in the practical school of life, while 
earning one's own living. 



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I.ikt* many loiinlry boys who pur|>osc entcrin{; the 
professions, Mr. Ottaway's I'lrsl resource on jjradiia- 
tion was teaching school. He followed this occiiiw- 
tion for some time, meanwhile prejurinj,' for the law. 
I.aler he prosecuted his studies in the otVu e of 
William Kus.sell at Westfield, and finally, in l«7!l, 
was admitted to the bar. Mr. Ottaway's career 
since then ha.s been that of a siiccessl'ul lawyer. At 
first he was a member of the firm of Russell, Dick- 
erman iV ( Utaway, as junior |iartner. Siib.se- 
ipiently this firm dis.solved, and .Mr. Ottaway for a 
lime practiced alone. He is now the senior partner 
ill the linn of ( Ittaway iV .Miinson of Westfield. 

The law often proves a steppiiifj-stone to politics, 
and so it w;is in Mr. Ottaway's case. He was always 
an acti\e ke|)iiblican, <|uick at making friends, ener- 
getic ; and by a natural loiirse of events he was 
nominateil, in 1HH:{, for district attoriie> 
of C°haiitaui|iia (ounty. He was electee!, 
and served from 1HX4 to l^<^t7 wiih 
I redit to himself and the county. .After 
his administration of this office he retired 
to the care of his large and growing gen- 
eral practice. Mr. Ottaway has been 
engaged in many important trials, and is 
one of the best-known members of the 
liar in ('hautaiii|iia < ounty. He has served 
fur several years as attorney for the board 
of supervisors of the county. 

One of the leading chara( teri>iic> oi 
Mr. <)ttaway's career is the interest he 
has taken in matters jiertaining to the 
welfare of Westfield and its institutions. 
He h;Ls always been active in village 
affairs. He served for many years as one 
of the vestrymen of St. Heter's Kpisc o|>al 
Church of Westfield. He is a Ma.son. 

/'KRSOXAL C//RONOLOG Y— 
Arthur B. Olliiumy 7i'as born at Miiui, 
C/itiiitiiu-/iiii toiintv, X. )'. , .l/</r <S', IS.'i^ : 
Wit\ fiiuiiiti-d in till- liistrift schooli, and at 
S/ii-rman ami West field academies, gradu- 
atin;^ from the latter institution in IS7-') : 
taui^ht school, studied law, and was ad- 
mitted to the har in 1S1!> : was district 
attorney oj Chautaui/ua county, ISSJfSl . 
has practiced law in Westfield, \. ) . 
since 1S7!>. 

Xcetcr jforrcst Stearns grew 

to manhood on \\\>. lather '.■- I.iriii. His early life was 
similar to that of many boys, who, born and bred in 
the country, fit iheiii.selves for a |>rofession, and win 
fame and reputation in large fields of ii.sefiilness by 



force of industry, |ierseverance, and character. There 
is something in the practical training and in the .sur- 
roundings of farm life that inculcates a sturdy self- 
reliance and stimulates ambition ; and the fai t is 
ajjtly illustrated in the career of Mr. Stearns. 

He receivetl his elementary education in the dis- 
trict school of his native ('hautaui|ua-< ounty town, 
and completed his studies in the J-'oresU ille Free 
.Academy, l-'or the two year> following his gradua- 
tion he taught school, thus ac<|iiiring the discipline 
in method and accuracy so essential in the profession 
of law, which he soon decided to make his vo< ation. 
liefore he began his legal stiulies, however, he s|ient 
a year in the Bradford oil region in Pennsylvania, 
where he had the suix-rvision of a large strip of oil 
territory. This work failed to prove congenial, an»l 
he returned to rhautaiii|iia county, to enter ii|Kin a 




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course of leg.il study at I'orestv ille. I.atcr he moved 
to Dunkirk, where he finisheil his studies in the office 
of C. If. Ilradley, then district attorney. .Admitted 
to the bar in 1.SS2, Mr. Stearns at oni e o|K'ned an 



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office for himself. ]ii l.S)S4 he formed a iiarlnershij) 
with Walter L. Kinsley that lasted imtil ISSll. 
Since then he has been the senior partner in the 
legal firm of Stearns & Warner. Mr. Stearns has 
taken pains from the beginning to accjuire the best 
books bearing upon his ))rofession, and he now has a 




LESTER EOKKEST STE.IRA'S 

large and valuable law librar\. Here he has ready 
at hand a vast amount of information otherwise attain- 
able only at the cost of much time and effort. 

Although Mr. Stearns has not yet passed the merid- 
ian of life, he has built up a very large and im]ior- 
tant practice in the northern part of Chautauijua 
county, numbering among his clients about all the 
leading concerns of Dunkirk. Men do not entrust 
weighty interests to lawyers as a matter of friend- 
ship, but seek the best talent anywhere obtainable ; 
and the large nvmiber of important clients who look 
to Mr. Stearns for legal advice demonstrates the 
wisdom of his choice of profession. His success, 
however, while ra])id, has not come without corre- 
sponding effort and faithfulness on his ])arl. 



The judicial cast of Mr. Stearns's mind has been 
recognized in his nomination for the office of s])ecial 
judge of the County Court — a nomination he felt 
constrained to decline. Subsequently he was nomi- 
nated and elected to the office of special .surrogate, 
and served for three years in that responsible jjosition. 
His popularity has been likewise attested 
by two elections to the office of district 
attorney, which he has held six years in 
all. He has been prominently mentioned 
for judicial honors, and his friends are 
desirous of seeing him on the bench. In 
politics he is a Republican, but he has 
never been guilty of carrying partisanship 
into the duties of any public position 
that he has been called upon to fill. 

To his active professional duties Mr. 
Stearns has added those of a progressive 
citizen. He has taken a keen interest in 
municipal affairs, and to his enterprising 
efforts in large part the city of Dunkirk is 
to-day indebted for its municipal system of 
electric lighting. He has also interested 
himself in the improvement of the streets 
and harbor of Dunkirk, and every move- 
ment for the public good finds in him a 
warm supporter and a zealous champion. 
PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— 
Lester Forrest Stearns 7C'as born at Villa- 
fiora, Chautauqua county, N. V. , July 27, 
IHiiO ; graduated from Forcsti'ille Free 
Academy in 1H7H ; ii'as admitted to the bar 
at Dunkirk, N. Y. , in 1H82 ; 7ms elected 
special surrogate in ISSi ; 7uas electea 
district attorney in 1SS6, and re-elected in 
1889 ; married Mary M. Hitler of Dun- 
kirk July 16, 1889 ; lias practiced law in 
Dunkirk since 1882. 



H. /IDtUCr Mcllman has had a remarkably 
successful career thus tar ; and as he is not yet tliirtv 
years old, it may safely be a.ssumed that the future 
has a much greater measure of prosperity in store for 
him. 

Mr. Wellman was born in the town of Friendship, 
Allegany county, where he still lives. His early 
education was received in a jirivate school, but he 
soon entered Friendship Academy, and took a five 
years' course there. Having exhausted the educa- 
tional resources of his native town, at the age of six- 
teen he entered Hopkins (Jrammar School at New 
Haven, Conn., to prepare for college. Two years 
later he entered Yale University, and graduated in 
the class of IHXS with llu- deirree of A. H. 



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After this absence from home of six years, Mr. 
Wclhiian returned to l''riendshi|i, a youri}; man of 
twenty-two, well i)re|areil, i)y means of the exiellent 
education he had received, to i)egin the a< tual work 
of life. In the fail succeeding; his grailuation he en- 
tered, as a clerk, the First National Kink of Kriend- 
shi|j, of which his father was ca.shier. Me was 
soon chosen a direc lor of the hank ; and after 
an experience of little more than a year, on the 
death of his father, he succeeded him as cashier. 
This office involved a heavy responsibility for so 
young a man ; but Mr. Wellman has proved himself 
an able financier, and during the six years of his 
management the bank has pros|x.'red in a most satis- 
factory manner. His excellent i|ualifications for the 
position of a lank official have led to his selection 
as vice i)resitleut of the First .National Hank of 
t'lilw, N. Y., and as a ili rector of the 
First National Bank of Salamanca. 

l-ike so many other enterprising men 
in .-Mlegany county, Mr. Wellman is in 
teresled in the jirotlui tion of oil. and his 
oiK'rations in the town of Wirt have been 
highly successful. He has also become 
interested in mining in Colorado, and 
is treasurer of the t'olumbia-Menona 
Mining Co. of Telluride, C"ol. He is 
secretary antl treasurer of the Ontario 
Imjjrovement i*t (las Co., Limited, of 
Honeoye Falls, N. Y. ; president of the 
Friendship Water Co., and of the 
I'hoenix Gas Co. of Seneca Falls, N. Y.; 
and a director in the Williams & Werner 
Co. of Rochester. Thus it will be seen 
that Mr. Wellman, though he has spent 
his life in a country town, is as far a.s 
(lossible from the traditional tyjK? of vil 
lager ; and is, in fai t, an active, enter- 
prising business man with extensive and 
varied interests. 

In politics .Mr. Wellman is a thorough 
Republican. Though he has never been 
a candidate for a |>olitical office, he has 
serveil his i>arty in many ways. He acted 
as secretary and trea.surer of the .Mlegan) 
county Republican committee during the 
presidential camiaign of 1h;I2, and ha.-- 
l>een a delegate to county, senatorial, 
and state conventions. In !)<!)") he was 
chairman of the .Mlegany-county dele- 
gation to the national convention of the Republican 
league at Cleveland. 

In soc ial, fraternal, and religious circles alike, Mr. 
Wellman is active and popular, thus rounding out 



and completing his character as a business man anil 
a public-spirited c iti/en. He is a memla-r of I'si 
C|<silon college fraternity ; .Master of .Mlegany 
Lodge, No. 'I'l'i, v. & .\. M., of Friendship ; and a 
member of Valley I'oint Chapter, R. A. M., of 
Cuba, N. Y., of St. John's lommandery. No. '24, 
K. v., Olean, and of Ismailia Temple, Nobli-s 
of the .Mystic Shrine, Huffalo. He is a memlier 
of the First Haplist Church of Friendship. .\s a 
trustee of Cook .Academy, Havana, .\. Y., hedenion- 
strates in a practical way his interest in the cause 
of education. 

/'/■/iSOX.I/. CIIRO.XOl.OGY—Ashfr Minn 
U'fllnuin was horn at Frieiiils:hif>, N. Y., November 
hi, liiOt! ; f>rff<areJ for fo//ri;f at /fof>kins Grammar 
School, Nno Harm, Conn., anil )^raitiialeil from Valf 
in liiSS ; hfi-amf a fifrk in the First Xational Hank 




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nj Frieni1shif< in tSSS, a Jirector in ISS.O, anJ has 
hfen cashier of the same hank since ISlHt .• married 
Ifattie Prior Paliiwin of Saxton^ River. I'/., fnne JS. 
ISH.l. 



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30bU XlClOOC*\VarC», "lio finds himself, at the 
age of thirty-six, a member of the Supreme Court 
of the state of New York, was born at (Charlotte, 
Chautauqua county. He is a son of Daniel S. and 
Cornelia Lake Woodward ; a grandson of John Wood- 
ward, who served in the assembly from Chautau(|ua 




JiillX W UOl>\\ ARI> 

couiitv ill lx:!-"i; and a great-grandson of John 
Woodwiird, who fought before the Heights of Abra- 
ham in the I'rench -Canadian war, and who served in 
one of the Massachusetts regiments during the revolu- 
tionary war. Early in the century this latter John 
Woodward moved to Cenesee county, New York, 
afterward taking up his residence in Chautau(|ua 
county, where his descendants have carved out for 
themselves careers worth) of his name. Mr. Wood- 
ward's grandmother on his mother's side was Sarah 
Mather, a lineal descendant of Cotton Mather. 

In his infancy Mr. Woodward's parents left Chau- 
tamiiia county, taking up a residence in Michigan, 
whence they moved to Kansas in 1870, where his father 
died. The family returned to Chautau(|ua county in 



1S71, the mother yielding up her life at Fredonia in 
the .same year. From that time Mr. Woodward made 
his home with Henry C. Lake, his mother's brother, 
who has long been a conspicuous figure in the politics 
of Chautau<|ua county. Working his way along, 
taking employment in the village stores and on the 
neighboring farms, Mr. Woodward grad- 
uated from the Fredonia Normal School 
in IHJX, and began reading law in the 
office of Morris & Lambert in that village 
in the same year, afterwards attending 
the law school of the University of the 
City of New York, and graduating there- 
iVom in IS.SL He was admitted to the 
bar at Poughkeepsie in the same year, 
and began the practice of his jirofession 
in Fredonia. In August, 1883, he moved 
to Jamestown to i)ractice law there ; and 
in l^iMfi, on the incoqjoration of the city 
of lamestown, he became its first citv 
attorney, filling the ])Osition for two years. 
He was a])pointed to a vacancy on the 
board of supervisors in 1887, holding 
the place by successive elections initil 
1 sil'i, when he was elected district at- 
torney of Chautauqua county. He held 
tliis position during the term, and in Jan- 
uary, 18()(), was a]j])ointed a justice of 
the Su])reme Court by (Jovernor Morton. 
Jutige \\'oodward is a member of the 
Jamestown Club, the Knights of the 
Maccabees, the FTks, the Citizens' Chib 
of l*'redonia, the l'',Hicott Club of I'.uffalo, 
the ( )rpheus Singing Society of the same 
1 it), and the Camp Dent Fishing Club of 
Allegany county. He takes an active 
interest in all matters of a public or 
(|uasi- public character. 

)ohn Woodward is not a plodtling 
student ot the l;iw in the abstract ; not a cowardly 
searcher after precedents, in an effort to make new- 
conditions conform to old measurements. He seeks 
rather to energize modern jurisjirudence by com- 
pelling it to meet a broadening conception of justice 
and e(|uity. To him the law is the servant of 
society, to be administered impartially as between its 
members, in the interests of equal justice; and he 
has the courage to assert so much of a new doc trine 
as may be necessary in his judgment to this end, thus 
aiding in that evolution of the law whii li is es.sential 
to its highest development. 

I'ersonall)- Judge Woodward is genial and thor- 
oughly likable, so that it is easy to miderstand his 
widespread popularit)'. 



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PERSONAL CllKOXOI.Oi;y—John Wood- 
ward was Oorn at Charlottf, Chautatiiiiia county, N. )'. , 
August 10, 185!) ; received a common-school education, 
and )^raduated from the Fredonia Normal School in 
1S7S ; graduated from the law school of the Uni- 
versity of the City of Neio York in ISSl, and Jt'as ad- 
mitted to the liar the same year; practiced law in fre- 
donia, N. v., ISSl-S.i; married Afary E. Barker of 
Eredonia .\fay JO, ISSH: was city attorney of James- 
town, N. ) '. , ISSUSS, member of the hoard of super- 
I'isors of Chautau</iia county, 1SS7-0J, and district 
attorney of Chautau(/ua county, lS!U-.')'> ; 7vas af>- 
fointed a justice of the Supreme Court of the state of 
Neio York in January, ISlHj. 

S. CjU"V H^alllfi illustrates in his lite the 
|i(ileii( \ ol ( li:ir;u ler and loftv ainliititm. I'luler 
circumstances that would have daunted 
most young men, and with few o|i|ior- 
tunities, he laid the foundation for success 
in a profession where continual study and 
ex|i;inding knowledge are essential. His 
education in schools was meager, anil 
< onfnied to elementary grades. He never 
hail the benefit of collegiate training. In 
its place he sul)stituted a course of private 
study, and thus gained a knowledge and 
mental discipline that I'ltted him uiti 
mately for the practice of law. Though 
he was not admitted to the liar until 
middle life, the |)reeeding years were so 
employed as to jirove valuable to him in 
his professional career. Me was brought 
into contact with the ])ractical affairs of 
life, and acipiired a wide business expe- 
rieni e. .\t the age of sixteen he learned 
the < ar|>enter's trade, and for severil 
years followed this calling liuring the 
summer months. In the winter he taught 
in ilistrict .schools, and devoted himself 
to study. His interest in education e\ 
tended beyond leaching, and for six years 
he fdled the jwsition of superintendent 
of schools for the town of Collins, N. \., 
having under his charge over twent\ 

>c lu>c)l>. 

Mr. Adams has had a long and varied ex - 
perience in municipal and c oiinty affairs, 
and is an authority on cpiestions relating 
thereto. He was supervisor of the town 
of Collins two terms, and was subsecpiently elec ted 
clerk of thel>oartl of su|)ervisorsof Krie county for two 
years. During the year l«."i7 he was a meniber of 
the state a.s,semblv iVcun the 4th l'>iecouiit\ district. 



in lK"»!t Mr. Adams w.xs a])|iointed deputy county 
clerk of Krie county, and moved to Buffalo. In the 
same year he l)egan a course of legal study, reading 
his Blac k.stone and Kent whenever he could I'md a 
s|Kirc hour. In this way he accpiired the legal 
knowleilge neces.sary to pass the lar examination, 
and he was admitted to practice in lH(i;{. His 
efficiency and popularity as deputy county clerk led 
to his nomination tor county clerk in IHtU; but he 
was defeated by fewer than I (IK plurality, though he 
polled the largest vote on his ticket. As a lawyer 
Mr. Adams h.ns made a s|)ccialty of commercial law. 
He wa.s led into this branch of the profession by his 
relations with the well known houses of I'ratI \- C"o. 
and Pratt \- I.etchworth, whose conl'idential agent 
and legal adviser he was for nearly a score of years. 
He was also a trustee and secretary of the HufTalo 




.s c./A'l t/> i.u.s 

Iron \- Nail Co , which was jtart of I'ratt \ Co. "s 
establishment. His charge of the legal afTain; of 
these houx-s sent Mr. .Adams into most of the north 
ern slates east of the Mi.s,s<)uri, and familiarized him 



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with the legal procedure of many states. Since the 
dissolution of the firm of Pratt iV Co. in 188(), Mr. 
Adams has devoted himself to general law practice. 
In his political affiliations Mr. Adams has been an 
ardent Republican since the formation of that party. 
Vox several years he was a member of the Republican 




si'/iooh : /au!;/'^ school ivinlers aiul worked as a car- 
penter summers, ISJflSO : married Harriet llliite 
of Collins, N. Y. , October 20, 18J!f2 ; was superin- 
tendent of schools of Collins, 18^6-52, supen'isor 
1852—53, and clerk of the hoard, 185^-55 ; was member 
of assembly in 1857, deputy county clerk of Erie county, 
1859-GJ,, and deputy collector of customs, 
1865-07 ; moved to Buffalo in 1859, and 
was admitted to the bar in 1863 ; 7vas 
employed as confidential agent and legal 
adviser for the firm of Pratt &' Co., 
1867-86, and has conducted a general hnv 
practice in Buffalo since 1886. 



J.i.XfES A. Al.l.EX 

county committee, and served one year as its chair- 
man. He ha.s, however, never sought office, and 
has fretiuently declined nominations when urged 
by his friends to accejit them. Mr. Adams is 
prominently identified with philanthropic work in 
Buffalo. He .served as a trustee of the Children's 
Aid Society for a number of years, and has been a 
managing director of the (jueen City Society for 
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children since its 
organization in 187!>. He has been connected with 
the Wyoming Benevolent Institute as trustee and 
secretary since IHX."?. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Samuel Cary 
Adams was horn at Federal Stores, town of Chatham, 
N. Y. , December 22, 1820 : was educated in common 



James H. HllCn was a Connecticut 
boy, born in the delightful town of New 
London, famous for its magnificent harbor 
and historic associations. In his tenth 
year he left his native New England, 
and moved with his parents to New York 
state. His studies, begun under a 
Yankee schoolmaster, were continued at 
Sinclairville, Chautauqua county, in the 
select school of E. H. Sears, who sub- 
sequently practiced law and became a 
judge. From this school Mr. .Allen 
entered Fredonia Academy, and com- 
pleted his education. In the meantime 
he had taken uj) the study of law in the 
office of Judge E. F. Warren. Like 
many ambitious young men, he was 
obliged to work his way in the world. 
He taught school in the winter, and in 
the summer assisted his father at home 
while continuing his studies. He learned 
thus to economize his time, and employ 
profitably every hour of the day. His 
career is an illustration of the fact that 
any youth with an earnest ambition can 
find o|)portunities to make himself the kind of man 
he wishes to be. 

In the fall of 18r)2 Mr. .Mien entered the law 
office of Welch & Hibbard of Buffalo as a student, 
and when twenty-two years of age was admitted to 
the liar, thus placing his foot on the first round 
of the ladder that was to lead him to success antl 
prominence. He opened an office in Sinclairville, 
and was so fortunate as to succeed to the law prac- 
tice of Albert Richmond, newly elected surrogate 
of Chautau(|ua county. The ])rofessional field, how- 
ever, was limited, and Mr. Allen decided that a 
city offered greater attractions in the way of legal 
business. .Accordingly, he settled in Buffalo in I8til, 
where his practice has grown both in the number 



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of his clients and in the importance ot" his causes. 
He his a|i|)eareil before the highest courts of the 
country, including the I'nited States Supreme Court 
at \Va.shington. Kor three year>i of his professional 
life Mr. .Mien was a.ssociated in |Kirtnership with 
.\sher V. Niihols, once .state comptroller. 

Mr. Allen has so earnestly confined himself to 
his office and his profession that he has never 
figured in pulili<- life a.s either an office holder or 
a cantlidate for office. His leisure outside his legal 
siuilies hits been devoted to literature. He is fond 
of the Latin clxssics, h;is studied l-'rench, and is 
< onversant with its literature. He has also devoted 
some time to the study of (lerman literature, 
through the translations of suih mxsters as Carlyle. 
Though not an author of books, Mr. Allen has 
written many articles for the press, which have 
appeared on the editorial i>ages of lead- 
ing |a|)ers. 

.\bove all things, however, .Mr. .Mien 
is a student of the law, and is deeply 
versed in its history ami literature. Of 
re<'ent years his chief work has been 
in connection with that intricate branch 
of the profession relating to |>atents and 
copyrights. Numerous cases of this class 
have taken him far and wide over the 
L'nited States. He hits a|)|)eare(l before 
United States courts at Portland, Boston, 
New York, All)any, I'tica, Detroit, (Irantl 
Rapids, and Chicago. He argued the 
first i>atent cau.se heard before judge 
Wallace after the latter's appointment as 
a judge of the L'nited States Court, and 
the last patent case ever decided by Judge 
hlatchford of the Cnited States Supreme 
Court. Mr. .Mien has been conneited 
with some of the most notable [atent 
cases tried in New York state. The cal- 
endars of the circuit courts attest his 
prominence in the field of federal practice. 
He is domestic in his tastes, delighting 
in his family and in a choice circle of 
frientis and acipiaintances. 

PERSONAL CHROXOr. OG Y— 
James Alhfrt Allen icas horn al A'rti< 
Loni/on, Conn. , Janiiai-y If), ISSJi ; was 
ei/ueaiei/ in /he common schools of Nnv 
I.onJon, a select school at SinclaiiTt'lle, 
X. )'. , an,l at Frciionia (X. Y. ) Acail- 
emy : 7i'as aJmitteil to the bar in ISoO : fnacticeii law 
in Sinclainille, 1S5G-61 : married Jeanie Pauline 
Mack of Buffalo XiKcmher .5, /,W^' ,• has f>ractice,l 
law in Buffalo since ISlil. 



Pbiltp 36CCl>Cr Wi>s not born in Huffalo, but 
his long rLM<kiiii- ilicrein, his prominent part in the 
business of the city, and his civic honors, have made 
him one of the most prominent citizens of the place. 

He was born at ( )l>crotterbach, a town in liavaria 
on the river Rhine, in 1k:{(I. His early education 
wiLs obtained in local schools, in the classical school 
of his native |>rovince, and in two years' study in 
France. He <ame to the Cnited States in 1S47, 
going directly to Itiiflalo from New N'ork, via .Mlwny 
and the Krie canal. He first found emjiloyment in 
Huffalo as a clerk in a grocery, at the very modest 
salary of four dollars a month and board. He 
brought to his employment the same energy and 
tletermination to succeed that have characteri/eil all 
his business life. Soon after reaching manhood he 
o]iene<l a store of his own, onlv a few doors from his 




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present establishment, and founded the great business 
that has lieen so long and favorably known to the 
lx?ople of Huffahi under the name of Philip Hecker 
& Co. 



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l"he remarkable success that has attended Mr. 
Becker's business career has not come by chance, 
but has been the result of hard and intelligent work, 
right living, and honest frugality. Mr. Becker's 
aci|uaintancc in Buffalo is ])roi)ably as large as any 
man's. While building up his own business he has 
had many o])])ortunities to lend a helping hand to 
otiiers, and the kindly way in which he has rendered 
such aid has won for him a host of friends. 

Mr. Becker's energy, u]jrightness of character, 
kindliness, and success attracted the attention of the 
citizens of Buffalo, and they have fre(|uently honored 
him with public office. In l.S7(i and IS"? he was 
mayor, and gave the city a thoroughly satisfactory 
and businesslike administration. In 1HS6 he was 
again mayor, and served four years. During this 
period he continued the business methods that he 
had introduced in his previous tenn. His record as 
mayor is a creditable one, and his administration 
was of great value to the city. No mayor has ever 
been more faithful to the people's interests than he. 

Mr. Becker was a presidential elector in ISNS. In 
1X5)1 his name was strongly presented to the Reijub 
lican state convention for the nomination as governor. 
He was a delegate to the Republican national con- 
vention in 187<), and again in 1.S92. He was one 
of the commissioners in charge of the erection of the 
City and County Hall, a building of which Buffalo- 
nians are proud, not only for its beauty, but also for 
the fact that it is one of the few great jmblic l)uild- 
ings that have been honestly constructed. Since 
Mr. Becker's retirement from the mayor's office 
December ."51 , iX.Sil, he has declined to arce|)t any 
jjolitical i)Osition. 

Mr. Becker has been < onne( ted with many of the 
iniblic institutions of Buffalo, notably with the Music 
Hall enterprise. The erection of this building, in 
fact, was due largely to his generosity, wide ac(|uaint- 
ance, untiring energy, and personal inlluence. He 
was i)resident of the great Saengerfest which was hekl 
in Buffalo in IX8.3, and caused the building of the 
first Music Hall. 

Mr. Becker wa.s one of the original members of 
the Buffalo (Jernian Insurance Co., and since I'ebru- 
ary, 18(ii(, he has been its ])resident. The great 
success that attended this enterprise, and the growing 
demand for more good insurance companies, led Mr, 
Becker, in liSiKi, to organize a new institution in 
Buffalo, known as the liuffalo (,'ommercial Insurance 
Co. The lines on which he has organized this asso- 
ciation, together with the persons whom he has 
interested therein, insure the success of the enter- 
|jrise. The stockholders have unanimously elected 
Mr. Becker the first |jresideni of the new t onipany. 



In 1802 Mr. Becker was married to Miss Sarah 
Cioetz, and their beautiful home on Delaware avenue 
is the gathering place of numerous friends. Mr. 
Becker is a member of many of the charitable and 
scientific societies of Buffalo, and he is always a con- 
tributor to any enterprise requiring public benev- 
olence. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Philip Becker 
7vas horn at Oberotterbach, Bavaria, in April, 18S0 ; 
was educated in German and French schools ; came 
to the United States and settled in Buffalo in ISJ^l ; 
married Sarah Goetz of Buffalo in 1852 ; was mayor 
of Buffalo, 1S70-77 and 1880—89; ruas presidential 
elector in J888 : has been president of the Buffalo 
German Insurance Co. since 18G!) : has conducted a 
wholesale (grocery business in Buffalo since 18f>i. 



Hlbcrt 1l3. JBriOOS has spent his entire i)ro- 
fessional life, covering a period of twenty-five years, 
in Buffalo, and has achieved no small measure of 
success as a general practitioner ; although, as he 
expresses it, he has "never had time to get rich." 
Realizing the value of concentration of effort. Dr. 
Briggs has never been interested, either directly or 
indirectly, in any business or occupation outside his 
profession ; but has devoted all his eneigies to his 
private practice, and to the duties of the \arious 
public offices that he has been called upon to (ill. 

Dr. Briggs was born in what is now Town Line, 
Erie county, and began his education at the district 
school. Later he attended the Batavia L'nion School, 
and the academy at East Aurora, and linall\ the 
(lenesce Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, N. \' . His 
medical studies were pursued at the University of 
Buffalo, from which he received tiie degree of M. 1). 
in 1.S71. 

During his student da\s in Buffalo Dr. Briggs had 
come to ap])reciate the advantages of the city as a 
plac-e of residence and a field fiir the e.\ercise of his 
medical skill, and he decided to cast in his lot there 
permanently. Accordingly he opened an office in 
Buffalo immediately after his graduation. Within a 
few months he received an appointment to the newly 
established office oi post-mortem e.vaminer for Erie 
coimty, and held the ])osition for more than three 
years. Meanwhile he was appointed city physician 
for the second district. In 18.S() and iXfSl he was 
health ])hysician for the city, and discharged the 
duties of the office so well that he was reapjiointed 
in 1884, and served for four years. During this 
second term the office of registrar of vital statistics 
was created at the suggestion of Dr. Briggs. He was 
appointed registrar, and as such organized that usefiil 
department of the city government. 



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Dr. Uriggs has l)een a incmlH.'r of the National 
CJiiard for many years. In ()itol>fr, lx7!t, he was 
appointetl assistant surgeon of the (("jth regiment, 
with the rank of 1st lieutenant, and in less than two 
years he was promoted to he surgeon of the regiment, 
with the rank of captain. In .\pril, IKK.'!, he 
received the rank of major, and this he 
still retains. In all these years of his 
connection with the regiment his interest 
therein has never I'aileil, and he may lie 
regarded as one of the nien who have 
helped to raise the tone of the National 
(luard, and to win for it the high place 
in the esteem of the communil\ that it 
now occujiics. 

For sixteen years Dr. Hriggs ha.s fdleil 
the ottice of state medical examiner for 
the Ancient Order of I'nited Workmen, 
and in that time he has examined nearly 
fifty thoii.sand applications for life insur- 
ance, or an average of aliout ten a day. 
This diuy, in addition to his private ])rai- 
tice and his .service to the city and to the 
National (luard, has made Dr. Hriggs a 
notably liusy man even in this busy age. 
lie holds membership in a great number 
of the societies that are so helpfid in 
keejjing a physician abreast of the times, 
and bringing him into contact with otlur 
bright men in his profession. Among suili 
societies may be mentioned the .American 
Mediial .Assoc iation, the .American Public 
Health .As.sociation, and the .As.sociation 
of Military Surgeons of the I'nited States, 
as well xs the New York .State Medical 
.As.sociation. the liuffalo .Academy of 
Medicine, and the l'>ie founty Medical 
Soc iet\ . He is also a Ma.son, belonging 
to Washington Lodge, No. 'J4I). 

PERSONAL CHRONOL OGY— All;-rl llain 
Brii^i^s Teas horn in tlu tirion of Lancaster, X. )'. , 
September !), I,S.',J : teas educated in Tarioiis sc/ioo/s 
and academies, and )^raduated from the medical depart- 
ment of the University of Buffalo in ISl 1 .• married 
Sarah America Baker of AndiKvr, A'. )'. , June 7, 
ISli.S : 7i>as health physician if the city of Buffalo, 
ISSilSl and ISSIfS", .• has practiced medicine in 
Buffalo since 1ST 1. 

]£&\Var& Clnrh i-- n typical American c iti/en. 
ill llic biouiol .iMtl best sen.se of the term. Without 
the initial advantage of wealth or position, and with 
only the education of the public schools, he has 
achieved an honorable name in his profession, and 



has earned the gratitude of his fellow-citi/ens l»y 
his active interest in many jiroblems relating to 
public health and public- welfare. Such men as 
he illustrate and justify the phrase, "a self-made 
man," and confer u|X)n it the honorable meaning 
that it has accpiired in pojiular s|icech. 



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Dr. (lark was iiorn in liuffalo forty -odd years ago, 
and has s|)ent prac tically his whole life there. His 
education was begun in the district .schools of West 
Seneca ; but he afterwards graduated from Public: 
School No. "JT in HufTalo, and attended the high 
school for two years. .As he was ambitious to l)e- 
come a physician, and had not the means to obtain a 
medical education, he taught school for several years, 
and thus obtained sufficient money to enable him to 
attend medical lectures at Cincinnati in IX7.T and 
|K7(i. He then returned to HulTalo, and after sev- 
eral years more of combined teaching and study, 
received his degree from the medical department 
of the I'niversity of HufTalo with honors. This 
hapiR-ned on February 2."), IKKO. 



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Since then Dr. Clark has followed his profession 
in Buffalo, and has built up an extensive ])ractice. 
lie has been attending surgeon at the Erie County 
Hospital ever since its organization, and was for two 
years a member of the executive committee of the 
staff of that institution. He served for five years as 




EDWARD CLARK 

lecturer and demonstrator of anatomy in Niagara 
I'niversity, and at the end of that time was offered 
the professorshi]) of anatomy, but declined the honor. 
Dr. C'lark has written many articles and pamphlets 
for publication, not only on purely professional sub- 
jects, but on sanitary questions as well. 

After serving as physician at the county jail, 7& post- 
mortem examiner, and as sanitary inspector for the 
health de])artment of Buffalo, Dr. Clark wasap])ointed 
health physician of the city in IHX.S, and filled the 
office for two years. In the discharge of the duties 
of this res])onsible ])osition he was vigilant, ]irom])t, 
and efficient, and won the esteem and confidence of 
his fellow-citizens irrespective of party. One of his 
first official moves was to make a strenuous effort to 



secure better school accommodations on the east side 
of the city ; and it was largely owing to him that 
several new buildings, with improved methods of 
ventilation and general sanitation, were erected. He 
also deserves the gratitude of the people for his suc- 
cessfiil handling of the smallpox that broke out in 
Buffalo during the first year of his office. 
Such emergencies test .severely a man's 
strength, and the fact that Dr. Clark 
was able to cope with this dread disease 
and avert an epidemic speaks well for his 
skill and executive ability. 

In 1.S90 Dr. Clark was nominated for 
member of the board of councilmen, but 
was defeated, though he received over 
4()()() more votes than the Republican 
candidate for mayor. In the spring of 
1.S94 he was appointed by Mayor Bishop 
a member of the advisory committee on 
street cleaning and the disposal of gar- 
bage, and in this position he displayed 
the same devotion to the best interests of 
the community that has characterized his 
entire public service. 

Dr. Clark is fond of music and art, 
as well as of outdoor sports and amuse- 
ments. He is a Mason, and Past Master 
of Erie Lodge, No. 161, F. & A. M., 
and a member of the Acacia Club. He 
attends the Delaware Avenue Methodist 
Church. 

PERSONA L CHR ONOL OGY— 
Jidward Clark was horn at Buffalo Oc- 
tober 28, 1852 : 7vas educated in the puh- 
lic schools : graduated from the medical 
department of the University of Buffalo 
in 1880 : married Nellie M. Daniels of 
Buffalo May 1, 188 4 : loas health physi- 
cian of the cit}- of Buffalo, 1888-90 ; has 
practiced medicine there since 1880. 



/IDvrOn 1l3. Clarl? was bom in Erie county, 
New York, in what is now the town of Elma, though 
it was at the time of his birth a ]iart of Lan- 
caster. Not many years before, tlie first house and 
a sawmill had been built, and the dozen Indian 
families who occupied the clearings in the vicinit) 
were the only neighbors of the owners of the mill. 
When the boy reached school age, the prosperity- of 
the town was assured, and the jilace was taking on 
an imi)ortant air, as befitted a community soon to boast 
of a railway in its immediate vicinity — the lUiflalo i^i: 
Washington, now the Western New York & Pennsyl- 
vani.T. The pri'scnt town of Pllma was organized in 



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IK")? from territory taken from the towns of I^naister 
anil Aurora. 

The district school at Klina was unusually well 
taught, and preiKued its pupils to enter the IJenesee 
Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, N. Y., on whose roll 
Mr. Clark w;l-, registered from 1X(!H to 1H70. Pre- 
ferring then to pursue a jiractical business course, he 
went to HufTalo, and took up the curriculum of Hryant 
iS: Stratton's Business College. Here he received 
his diploma, when he was eighteen years olil. He 
put his training into immediate use by engaging in 
the lumber business. This o(cui>ation, together with 
farming, brought him substantial returns, but he had 
other aims in view for his life-work. ICntering the 
law office of M. .\. Whitney of Ituffiilo, he studied 
with characteristic i>ersisten<v until preiiareil for 
admi.ssion to the bar. .\fter five years' practice alone 
he formed a ])artnershi|) with Frederick 
Howard, and the firm has since been 
known as Howard iV CMark. 

Mr. (.'lark has been clerk of the board of 
su|)ervisors of Krie county, twice super- , 
visor from the town of KIma, chairman j 
of the l'!rie-county boarii of supervisors, [ 
and a member of the state ;us.sembly. 
While in the assembly he was a member 
of two im])ortant committees — those on 
judiciary and excise. He was defeated 
by a close vote for re-election to the 
a.'i.sembly, by rea.son of the Democratic 
ai)|x)rtionment of IXiYl, when the distric t 
that he then re|)resented was changed by 
the aildition of two large wards of the 
( ity of liufTalo, anil was thus made largel\ 
Democratic. The welfare of the Repub- 
lican i)arty has always been a matter of 
great interest to Mr. t'lark, and he has 
represented the town of Klma on polit- 
ical committees ever since his majority. 
He is, and has Iwen for several years, a 
mendver of the Reimblican general com- 
mittee of Erie county. 

From the coming of the early settlers 
dates the beginning of Free Ma.sonr\ 
in ICrie county. In 1H(17 there were a 
sufficient number of Ma.sons in Huffalo, 
then called New .\msterdam, to warrant 
the establishment of a Ma.sonic lodge, 
although the first loilge was not founded 
until 1X12. I'lla/ing Star Lodge, No. 
(i'.M, of which Mr. Clark is a member, is located at 
IvLsl .Vurora. He is also an <)(l(l Fellow, belonging 
to .\urora IJorealis Lodge ; a member of the l-'.llicolt 
Club, HufTalo, a new business men's dining anil 



SOI i.u 1 lull in l-.IJKott S(|uarc ; antl a freiiuent 
attendant at the .Acacia Club. This organization is 
an im|)ortant .Ma.sonic club, occupying the entire 
third floor of the Masonic 'I'emple, KufTalo. 'I'he 
club derives its membershi|), which is limited to 
six hundred, from the Miusonic fraternity of Buffalo 
anil vicinity. To be eligible one must be a Master 
Ma.son in good standing. Mr. Clark is an earnest 
member of the order, belonging to a chapter of Royal 
Arch Masons in addition to Blazing Star Lodge. 

J'E/iSOX.lL ClIROXOI. OG Y— Myron llnnx 
Clark 7Luii born <;/ what is nim> Klma, A'. )'. , J init- 
io, 1S')S ; was eiliicalfil at Gfnfsef W'esUyan Sfmi- 
nary, Lima, IV. )'. , anJ Hryant &> Stral/on' s Business 
ColltXf, Buffalo ; marrifj Mary Eliza Bancroft of 
F.lma A fay ^4< /•'>'76' .• 7{'as aitmiltfit to the bar in 
ISS-i : 7<''7i cli-rk of the boanl of snfen'isors of lirif 




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county in ISSl, suf<frrisor of the tincn of F.lma, 
ISSttST, chairman of the Erie-county hoard of sufer- 
7-isors in 1HS7, an J member of assembly in 1S!I : .■ has 
fracticed laio in Buffalo since ISS.i. 



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MEN OF NEW YOA'K —WESTERN SECT/ON 



]£inOrV p. Close, though his success is due 
Idimarily to his own efforts, owes not a little to his 
environment. His training in the public schools 
of Buffalo was cut short by his acceptance of a 
position as assistant in the Buffalo Young Men's 
Association Library, where he made good use of the 




EMUKV /' CLOSE 

advantages afforded. Always fond of reading, he 
had here rare opportunity to indulge his taste for 
good books, and the influence was both helpful and 
stimulating. History, biography, mental philosophy, 
and Knglish literature, he enjoyed and studied ; and 
his acquaintance with books and authors enabled him 
to select the best works in the different fields. Many 
moments of leisure came during the long hours in 
which the library was open, and they were all 
improved. Among other books he read " David 
Copperfield," and a pa.ssage therein greatly inllu- 
enced his siibseijuent career. This was the account 
of David's arduous .struggle with shorthand and 
final mastery of the art — a feat that Dickens deems 
e(|ual to ac(|uiring six foreign languages. Mr. Clo.se 



determined to learn stenography, and finding in the 
library a copy of (Jraham's Jfandbook, he ajiplied 
himself to the study. At that time, in 1X75, there 
were not more than five or six stenograjihers in 
Buffalo, and these were engaged principally in the 
courts. Mr. Close sought no instruction, but ap- 
plied him.self diligently to his te.xt-book, 
and in a year he had mastered the 
.science, and was ready for the more diffi- 
cult task of acquiring a high rate of 
speed. His ambition \va.s to fit himself 
for the highest grade of professional 
work. This demanded at least a .super- 
ficial knowledge of the many subjects 
that are frei|uently involved in legal con- 
trovers)'. 

At the age of seventeen Mr. Close re- 
signed his position at the library, and 
entered the office of Slocum & Thornton, 
official stenograjjhers for the Supreme 
Court of the JSth judicial district. Be- 
fore he was twenty-one he established an 
office of his own, and soon after formed 
a partnership with one of his former em- 
])lovers, organizing the well-known firm 
of Thornton, Briggs iV Close. In 1X84 
.Mr. Close was elected official stenogra- 
|)her of the state assembly by the Repub- 
lican caucus of that year, and rejjorted 
all the debates in that body. He was 
re-elected without opposition by the as- 
semblies of 1885, 1886, and 1887. 

His official life at Albany brought Mr. 
Close into contact and acquaintance with 
senators and assemblymen, state officers, 
and leading politicians, and familiarized 
him with legislative methods and pro- 
cedure. Having reached the topmost 
round in the stenogra])hic ladder, and 
established a reputation as one of the most rapid and 
correct reporters in the United States, he turned his 
thoughts to a wider field. His relations with the 
courts and legislature led him naturally to the legal 
profession, and he determined to study law. During 
the last three years of his stenographic work he util- 
ized his S])are moments, generally at night, in legal 
study, until his admission to the bar in 1886. 

Not until 1888 did Mr. Close enter ujjon the 
practice of the profession that was to be his life- 
work. He found the law a jealous mistress, demand- 
ing devotion of head and heart. He has given his 
entire thought and effort to his ])rofession, and in 
the eight years of his practice has already earned for 
himself a reputation for tireless energy and legal 



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ability. In jury cases esi)e»ially he must 1)C rcjtardfci 
as one of the most siiccessrul lawyers at the lirie- 
county Iwr. His regular practice began in the firm 
of Close & Kleischmann ; and u|»on the election of 
Manly V. (Ireen as justice of the Sui>renie Court, 
Mr. Close formed a |jartnership with Judge Creen's 
former [xirtner, William L. Marcy, uniler the style 
of Marcy & Close. I'his association still continues. 
Mr. Clo.se has always been deeply interested in 
the success of the Republican |Kirty, and has been a 
favorite camjKiign s|)eaker throughout Krie county. 
Kor |K>litical office, however, he has no ambition, 
preferring the laurels won in his profession. He is 
a member of the Ma.sonii- order, atViiiateil with 
.\ncient l.;indmark Lodge. He l)elongs to the Buf- 
falo Club and the Acacia Club, and is president 
of the Republican League, one of the leading party 
organizations of the state. 

/'/•:/isoxAL c7/jfo.voLoc;y— 

Emory /'. Close -was horn al Buffalo De- 
femher l.i, 1S59 ; loas etiucatfif in lite 
f>ul>lic schools : u>as assistant lihrarian of 
the Yoiin:^ Men s Association Lihrary of 
liiiffalo, ISIJf—l"! : 7i'as Supreme Court 
steno};ra/<lier for the Sth Judicial ilistrict, 
ISS0S8, anil official steno};ra/>her of the 
AWd' Yorh state assemhiy, I.W^—ST: mar- 
rieil Etta S. Cohb of Buffalo January 7, 
/.SW.5 ,- 7i'as admitteil to the bar in 1S8(J, 
ami has f>racticeil hnc in Buffalo since 
ISSS. 

E&\vai-C» JE. Coatswortb '- 

prominent among the rising young la« 
yers and well-known men of Huffalo. 
He was born there less than thirty year> 
ago, and was educated in the common 
.schools, attending l'ubli( School No. -I, 
and graduating from the high .school. 
Having clecided upon the law as his pro 
fession, he immediately entered ujKjn a 
course of legal stiuly, and was admitted 
to practice by the Ceneral Term of the 
Supreme Court soon after completing his 
twenty-first year. This is an unusually 
early age at which to gain admission ti> 
the lar, and is a .striking proof of the 
maturity of his mind. 

Mr. Coatsworih next added to his theo- 
retical knowledge of the law a thorough 
familiarity with court rules and pro<edure by a i>eriod 
of .service as managing clerk in the office of Tabor iS: 
.Sheehan. With such ability and success did he con- 
duct the clerical affairs of the office, that he was 



admitted to a |)artner>hip in the firm May I, IKHM. 
Two years later the firm w;ls enlarged by the admis- 
sion of John Cunneen. 'l"he two senior |)artners 
were mut h engaged in publi<- affairs, and the volunje 
of the work of the firm fell upon .Messrs. Coatsworth 
and Cimneen. On the removal of .Mr. Sheehan to 
New York the |iartnership w;ls dis.solved, and Mr. 
Coatsworth united with Mr. Cunneen in forming a 
new |>artnership under the name of Cunneen i\: Coats 
worth. This firm has been deservedly succi-ssful, and 
has built up a substantial and reputable clientage 
comprising many import;int business concerns and 
private corjjorations. 

.Mr. Coatsworth has wi.sely held aloof from active 
participation in |>olitics, thus economizing his time 
and energy for the zealous pursuit of his profession. 
He has avoided the mistake of so many bright young 




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men, who seek office and busy themselves with [wrty 
|iolitics, to the neglect of their life occujation. But 
Mr. Coatsworth is far from being a bookworm. No 
man takes more interest in liealthv re( reation than 



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he ; and his connection with numerous societies and 
chibs attests the fact that he does not neglect the 
social side of life. He is particularly fond of aquatic 
sports, and is a member of the Buffalo Yacht Club 
and the Buffalo Canoe Club, seeking in this way to 
take the exercise so essential to every man pursuini; a 




EDWARD I.. COOK 

sedentary vocation and engaged in head work largely. 

In the Ma.sonic fraternity Mr. Coatsworth stands 
high, and is a devoted member of the brotherhood. 
He lielongs to all the Masonic bodies of Buffalo, 
both York and Scottish rites, and has taken all the 
degrees from the first to the thirty-second inclusive. 
He is also a Knight Templar and a Noble of the 
Mystic Shrine, and holds membership in the Royal 
Arcanum and the -Acacia Club. 

I' E R S O jVA L CHR ONOL O G Y— luhtHint 
Emerson Coatsworth was horn at Buffalo Noi'ctnlier '>, 
18GG ; was educated in the public schools, graduatiiii:; 
from the hii^h school ; 7uas admitted to the l/ar January fi, 
ISfiS; married Emma ATariou Blocking:; of Buffalo June 
2r,. IfiUi : has fracticed hnc' in Buffalo since 1888. 



]E^^Va^^ X. Cool? deserves honorable mention 
in the list of BulTalouians who have been instru- 
mental in building up the Queen City, and making 
it the healthful and beautiful place of residence that 
it is to-day. He was born in Buffalo and has lived 
there all his life, barring an absence of three years 
as a volunteer soldier in the Union army. 
His early life was that of the city boy. 
He attended the grammar school, and 
later the Central High School. To this 
instruction he added a winter's training 
as a teacher, thus solidifying the knowl- 
edge previously acquired. 

Abandoning teaching for busine.ss, Mr. 
Cook became connected as bookkeejjer 
with the firm of Hardiker & Toye, who 
then carried on a large plumbing business 
in Buffalo. He remained with them till 
the summer of 1862, when he enlisted in 
the 100th New York regiment, donned 
the blue uniform, and marched to the 
front in defense of the Union. He served 
to the end of the war, and rose from the 
ranks to the grade of captain, receiving a 
commission as major by brevet after he 
was mustered out. At one time he was 
detailed to duty on the staff of General 
Dandy, the brigade commander. He was 
still a young man when the war closed, 
but the three years spent in the army are 
n\unl)cred among the most valuable of his 
whole life. In this respect Mr. Cook 
is like most soldiers, who would not 
exchange their war exjierience for any 
other. 

On returning from the field .Mr. Cook 
entered the service of the New York ten 
tral & Hudson River railroad, and filled 
a clerkship with that company. His old 
business training, however, asserted itself, and after 
a while he became bookkeeper for a plumbing hou.se 
conducted by T. W. Ibye, one of his first em- 
ployers. His faithfiilness and ability brought in the 
course of years their proper reward, and he was made 
a parlner b\ .Mr. Toye under the firm name of 
T. W. Toye & Co. Finally Mr. Cook branched 
out in business in his own name, and for Ihe past 
eighteen years he has been at the head of one of 
the largest and most complete plumbing, heating, 
ventilating, and lighting establishments in Buffalo. 
Mr. Cook is connected with numerous social and 
benevolent organizations, and is an active member 
of each. He has long been jironiinent in the (Irand 
.\rmy of the Repulilic, the Ifnion Veteran Legion, 



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and the Military Order of tlie I.oyal Legion. He is 
a member ot" IX-Molay Lodge, F. & A. .NL, and 
of the Acacia CUib. All societies and chilw having 
a |)atriotic or philanthropic object find in him a warm 
siip|)orter and friend. His name is identified with 
the (lood Government Club, the Society for the 
Prevention of Cruelty to .Knimals, the Liberal Clul), 
and the Charity Organization Society. In short, 
Mr. Cook is not only a man of busines.s, but a man 
of afTiiirs generally, recogni/.ing his obligations to 
society, and meeting them by hearty co-0|>eration 
to the full extent of his time and power. 

PERSONAL CIIROXOLOGY— E.hoanl L. 
Cook was horn at Buffalo March JO, ISiO ; was 
fdiicated in the public schools ; loas bookkeeper for a 
firm of plumbers, 1859-62 ; sen<ed in the Union army, 
1S02-(15 ; married Afary- E. Moffett of Portaireville, 
JV. Y. , June 10, ISO!) ; became a mem- 
ber of the firm of T. 11 '. Tore &" Co., 
plumbers, in 1S7U, ami has conducted a 
similar business utuler his cnon name since 
1S7S. 



(SCOrilC ta. COtbran has risen 1(1 
his present eminence through indomit 
able energy and inborn ability. \\ Inn 
he was four years of age his father 
dietl, leaving his mother with a small and 
heavily encumbered farm and a family of 
thirteen children, of whom Ceorge was 
the youngest. Until he wa.s sixteen years 
old the routine of farm work, study at 
the neighboring school, and les,sous with 
an elder brother, fdled his time. Re 
moving to Lock|)ort, he devoted the 
su<ceeding four years to acquiring a 
practical knowledge of several branches 
of the mechanical arts. In these he 
evinced decided skill, and his ability to 
ilraw ])lans of wooden, iron, and stone 
structures has often been of service in 
his law |)ractice in causes involving such 
ijuestions. 

The young man's ambition to stu<ly 
law saw promise of tulfillment when 
I'hineas L. Kly of Lockport took him 
into his office. .After three years' faith- 
fid a|>plication Mr. Cothran was admit- 
ted to practice in all the courts of New 
Vork state. His examination was un- 
usual : it w;ls conducted by three judge's in o|H.'n 
court, and he answered correctly all the <|uestions 
with a single excejition. .\fter a year s|)ent with 
his ])receplor. .Mr. Cothnm <)|)ened a law office in 



Locki>ort in IH.jH, and met with most gratifying 
success until hi- wn^ interrupted bv tin- call tn aruis 
in \m\. 

Organizing batter) .\I, 1st New \<)rk volunteer 
light artillery, he was commissioneil its cajitain, and 
went at once to the front. The record of this battery 
is that it never lost a gun in all the great battles or 
lesser engagements in which it took part. .\n eight 
hours' fire at .\ntietam was one of Cajitain Cothran'.s 
memorable exjieriences. Another was the exposure 
to a twenty-four hours' rain, which brought on 
sciatica, and obliged him to resign his commission 
and return home. From the effects of this he has 
never fully recovered. .After the battle of .Antietam 
Captain Cothran was recommended to President 
Lincoln, by every commissioned officer in the 11th 
armv corps, for ]iromotion tor meritorious ser\ice in 




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the field ; but political considerations prevented liim 
from receiving this richly deserved honor. 

On leaving the army in 1S(!.'!, Mr. Cothran took 
up the practice of his profi-ssion in Itiiffalo, and soon 



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achieved an honored place in the bar of western New 
York. He has been connected with many important 
Utigations. In 18()9-7'2 he conducted what was 
known as the "penalty litigation" against the 
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Co. 
for exacting excess of fare : and the result coni- 




WII.I.IAM II. lUDDKBACK 

])elled a reorganization of the |)assenger tariffs of 
nearly all the railroads in the country, and pre- 
vented their demanding more than legal rates. In 
1H7!I Mr. Cothran went to Chicago, to hel|) unravel 
a railroad com]jli('ation, and made that city his home 
until 18!S."), when he returned to Buffalo. He has 
jjracticed there ever since. 

In 1877 Baker University of Kan.sas conterred 
on Mr. Cothran the degree of i.I.. I), because of his 
.scholarly work in editing and annotating the sixth 
edition of the revised statutes of the state of New 
York, in three volumes containing nearly 4000 
pages. In 1870 he did a similar piece of work for 
the revised statutes of Illinois, and this ha.s been 
edited biennially since, and is a standard authority. 



Mr. Cothran is the author of two |)ractical and help- 
ful books entitled " Law of Supervisors " and " Law 
of Assessors and Collectors." He has frequently 
contributed in lighter vein to the jjages of popular 
periodicals. 

Among the educational institutions that iiave bene- 
fited from Mr. Cothran's liiierality is the 
i3uffalo College of Physicians and Sur- 
geons. He was its first president, and 
for a considerable period occupied the 
chair of medical jurisprudence. 

Mr. Cothran's beautiful home in Buf- 
falo is a veritable ]Mcture gallery and art 
emporium. There is probabl}- no larger 
collection of music and musical literature 
to be found in America than his. His 
private library covers the whole range 
of literature, a unique feature being a 
( ollection of rare books on the origin, 
formation, and progress of religious ideas. 
His law library is said to be the most 
thoroughly annotated of any in Buffalo. 
PERSONAL CHR ONOL OGY— 
George W. Cothran was horn ai Royal- 
ton, Niagara county, N. Y. , February 25, 
IH.iJf : was admitted to the bar in 1857 ; 
seiTed in the Union army, 1861-63 ; mar- 
ried Jennie IV. Mann of Buffalo May 26, 
18(1S ; was county Judge of Erie county in 
1877 : edited, annotated, and wrote se7<eral 
valuable books, 1875-89 ; has practiced 
law in Buffalo since 1863, imth the excep- 
tion of se7<eral years' practice in Chicago, 
187,0-85. 



umilliam lb. Cu&bebacU monies 

of old Dutch stock, and his ancestors 
settled in the l';m])ire State soon after 
it pa.ssed under the control of the Kng 
lish. Many of his lineage have figured in the local 
annals of the state ; several served in the revolu- 
tionary war, and took part in the fighting that oc- 
curred in the Minisink territory, when the settlers 
were attacked by the fitmous Indian chieftain, 
Joseph Brant. Mr. Cuddeback's father was a dele- 
gate to the constitutional convention of 1840, a 
member of the state assembly, and county i lerk of 
Orange county, i'ublic affairs have proved attrac- 
tive to his family, and naturally enough Mr. Cudde- 
back has devoted the time not required in his pro- 
fession to active ])articipation in the management of 
his ])olitical ])arty in Buffalo. He is |)rominently 
identified with the "regular" Democracy; and for 
two vears was chairman of the Democratic general 



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coniniittec, and gave freely of his time ami edort to 
promote the success of his jKirty. The divisions and 
dissensions in the Democracy in the (^ucen City are 
matter of history, luit Mr. C'liddeback has the re- 
s|)ect of all factions. 

Mr. Ciiddeback was liorn in the delightful county 
of Orange, in New York state, and received an 
academic education in the town of (loshen, to which 
his parents had moved. He entered C'ornell I'ni- 
versity at the early age of sixteen, and s|)ent four 
years there. He chose the law as his profession, and 
was admitted to ])ractice at Poughkeepsie, X. V., in 
May, 1)S77. At first he |)racticed alone for a short 
time at tloshen, where he liecame a justice of the 
Ijeace. Then for seven years he was a.ssociateil with 
Henry A. Wadsworth of Orange county. But like 
all amhitions young men, Mr. t'uddehack longed for 
the marts of trade and commerce. He 
realized the fact that to obtain business 
one must go where business is. Accord- 
ingly he cast around for a new location, 
and, drawn by the obvious advantages of 
Buffalo, moved thither in IMX.'). In \SS\) 
he formeil a i)artnershi|j with Daniel J. 
Renefick, at ])resent district attorney of 
Krie county, that lasted four years. In 
IH!)") Mr. C'uddeback as.sociateil himself 
with Joseph V. Seaver, county judge, and 
is at present connected with luigene !'. 
Ouchie. Since establishing him.self in 
Buffalo Mr. Cuddeback's law practice 
has grown steadily, and he has to-day a 
recognized i)osition at the bar of V'.r'w 
county. 

Meanwhile he has become one of the 
leailers of the Democratic party in the 
western |)art of the state. His only |)ub- 
lie office has been that of manager of the 
Craig Colony for epileptics at Sonyea. 
He was first appointed to this office by 
(Jovernor Mower, and, thougii a strong 
Democrat, he has l)een twice reappointed 
by Oovernor Morton — a striking prool 
of his efficient administration of the 
office. 

Mr. Cuddeback is a Mason, and holds 
membershij) in .\ncient l.andniark Lodge, 
No. 441, Free and .Accepted Masons. He 
is well known in club circles, belonging 
to the Saturn Club, the I'.llic ott Club, 
and the .\cacia Club. 

PERSONA I. CUR O.VOL O G V— II >///,;/;/ 
Hi-rman Cii:iJehaik was horn in Ihe timni of Dffr 
l\irk, N. v., M.iir/i jr>, tS't4 .■ mis f,/i/,;i/<;/ ,1/ 



Goslifn Aiiiilfmy ani/ Cornell L'nivfrsity ; was aJ- 
mitUJ to llif liar in 1S77 : practiced law at Goshen, 
N. V. , 1877-Sii ; 7oas chairman 0/ the Democratic 
i^eneral committee, Piiffah, ]Sft't-f>i; ,■ lias f>racticeil 
laic in Hiiffiilii finrc /.S'.s'.*. 

CbOma£« IDariJ has led a laborious, useful, and 
honoraiile life. Born in the [xirish of Bitton, c-ounty 
of ( llcjucester, near Bristol, I'jigland, about the time 
jiriiiting machines were invented, and a year be- 
fore the battle of Waterloo was fought, Mr. Dark's 
career has extended over the most remarkable |)eriod 
in the world's history. His place has been among 
the toilers. From his early days he was accustomed 
to heavy labor, since he went to work for his father, a 
contractor and builder, at the age of ten, thus learn- 
ing the ma.scin's trade. 'Too voung to carrv on the 




T/tOMIS DIKK 

business of his father on the latter's death, Mr. Dark 
left his home and went to Bristol, where he worked 
at his trade under master builders. While there 
SOUK- of his father's old |iatrons sent for him to dcj a 



MEN OF NEW YORK— WESTERN SECTION 



job of masonry, and from this beginning Mr. Dark 
(levelo|)ed into a building contractor. At first he 
put up dwelling houses, for the most part, but after- 
ward his specialty became municipal «ork — the con- 
struction of bridges, culverts, waterworks, gas tanks, 
sewers, and the like. 

.After a score of years spent at his trade in Eng- 
land, Mr. Dark made u[) his mind to seek the richer 
opportunities of a new country by going to Amerii a. 
He arrived in Buffalo with two of his sons April 1, 
1857, in the midst of universal business depression. 
At first the outlook was discouraging, and Mr. Dark 
sought employment in Canada. He soon returned 
to Buffalo, and, in order to become ac([uainted with 
the customs of the place and ])eople, secured work 
on the new post office then building at the corner 
of Washington and Seneca streets. Mr. Dark's 
readiness to accept work under a "boss" when he 
had long been an employer himself, is characteristic 
of the man. Idleness he has always abhorred. 

.-\bDut this time, seeing an advertisement inviting 
propo.-ials for building a stone culvert across Louisi- 
ana street, Mr. Dark put in a bid, and secured the 
work. From that day he has been prominent among 
the contractors of Buffalo, where he has performed 
many large contracts for corporations and individu- 
als. The foundations of numerous public and pri- 
vate structures are the work of his brains and hands. 
In all his undertakings he has applied the same 
principles of dealing in the ca,se of the public as in 
that of a private citizen, and has never been classed 
among contractors who grow rich on public jobs. 

In 1873 Mr. Dark planned and constructed the 
Titusville, Penn., waterworks. For nearly thirty 
years he has taken a deep interest in the water suj)- 
ply of Buffalo. He received the first premium, 
S2000, offered by the city of Buffalo in 186!) for 
the best plans and sjjecifications for the improve- 
ment of the waterworks. Mr. Dark's ideas, how- 
ever, were not carried out by the city and contrac- 
tors, and he has always insisted that the work was very 
badly done. He contends that the Buffalo water supply 
is entirely inade(|uate to the needs of a growing com- 
munity, and constitutes in some respects a distinct 
menace to the prosperity of the city. He compiled 
and published, in 1805, a fifty-page pamphlet on 
the Buffalo waterworks, entitled " History of a 
(Ireat Failure." His contention in brief is that the 
existing system and plant are radically defective ; 
that the practice of supplying water in its crude state 
to consumers, by direct ])umping .service from the 
river, is a ridiculous and dangerous novelty in hy- 
draulic engineering ; that the mains which deliver 
water for domestic u.se should be filled from reservoirs 



supplied li\- filter beds, the latter receiving the 
water in its crude state from a seiiarate [jumjiing main ; 
that the present inlet pier, receiving well therein, 
and tunnel thence to the pumping station, were badly 
constructed, at a cost monstrously in e.vcess of the 
proper cost of good construction ; that the water 
supply is now, under certain conditions easily fid- 
filled, polluted by sewage and street washings; that 
the water supply at certain seasons may be cut off. 
to the great danger of the city, by slush ice — partly 
cut off, as it is every year, wholly cut off, as it may be 
under conditions foreseeable and not uniirecedented ; 
that the inlet is located in the wrong place, and should 
have been built far out in the lake, where pure water 
can be obtained at all seasons without danger of a 
water famine from the clogging of the inlets by slush 
ice. Without particularizing further Mr. Dark's plans, 
it may be said that his ))amphlet on the subject, his 
original estimates, diagrams, and specifications — all 
of which will be deposited in the archives of the 
Buffalo Historical Society — will be exceedingly use- 
fid to future students of the Buffalo water sup]jly, and 
will constitute an interesting chapter in the history 
of municipal government. 

Mr. Dark embodies the best traits of the English 
character — industry, independence, and devotion to 
the accjuisition of knowledge. He is a fine type of 
the self-made and self-educated man. His school 
days were few ; but he has succeeded by persever- 
ance and economy of time in enlarging his mental 
horizon until he has become an intelligently in- 
formed man in a variety of lines. Close observa- 
tion and sound judgment have been his guides. He 
is fond of reading and travel. He wrote, in the 
form of a diary, an account of a European trip 
made with several members of his family in 1893. 
This narrative was published at the request of friends, 
and the book is thoroughly enjoyable, affording a 
delightful picture of English home life. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G Y— Thomas Dark 
'ivas horn at Kingswood, near Bristol, England, De- 
cember 21, 18 H ; received an elementary education, 
and learned tJie -mason' s trade ; married Eliza IFillis 
of Kingswood in 1S33 ; came to the United States, and 
settle t in Buffalo in 1857 : has been a mason and 
building contractor in Englaul and the United States 
since 18SS. 

©liver "i' ]£t}t}Cl.*t has led a markedly u.seful 
and successfid life along important and difficult lines 
of commercial activity. He was born in the Key- 
stone State, but was taken during his infancy to Erie 
county. New York, and has lived ever since in or 
near Buffalo. He was unable to carrv his education 



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l>cyon(l the common schools, ami even that advan- 
tage was cut ofl' at the aj;e of sixteen, wiieii he lie{,'an 
business life as a clerk in a Uiiflalo grocery. Three 
years of this service gave him considerable insight 
into the elements anil principles of business, anil thus 
IKived the way for the iwrtnership formed in |H47 
with his father, Christian Mggert. The) 
established a general store in the Mrie- 
county village nametl from their family 
I'iggertsville, anil built up there a nourish- 
ing trade. Mr. I'.ggert remained in the 
business until l.S(>"2. when he sold his 
interest and retired. 

In the same year liie slurill ol l-.ne 
county, Robert H. Hest, offered the po- 
sition of uniler sheriff to Mr. l-".ggert. 
The latter hail been so much ab.sorbeil in 
business before this that he had found 
little time for public office ; though he 
had been elected, in \S'tH, clerk of the 
I'.rie-county boanl of supervisors. He 
accepted the position of under sheritT, 
anil fulfdled its duties so effectively that 
he was himself elected sheriff two years 
later on the democratic ticket for the 
term l«()r»-(>7. The responsibilities of 
this higher office were iintlinchingl> met 
and adequately dischargeil, and Mr. Kg- 
gert attained a reputation for integrity 
and business ability that materiall) jiro- 
moted his .sul>se(|uent success. Since his 
retirement from the sheriff's office he has 
not been in public life, except that in 
1H71 he was appointed police justice in 
fdl a vacancy. 

Mr. Kggert's earlier career thus related 
has been almost forgotten, and people 
nowadays think of him as a financier, 
and more jwrticularly as a man widely 
informed in the great business of insurance. In 
lM(i7 a corporation was organized in Huflfalo entitled 
the ISufTalo (Jerman Insurance t'o., to carrv on the 
business of fire underwriting. Mr. Kggert has been 
identified with this enterprise from the very begin- 
ning, having been one of the incorporators and one 
of the first directors of the com|>any. He held no 
active executive position, however, imtil 1^74, when 
.Mexander Martin resigned the position of secretary, 
and Mr. Kggert as.sumed the duties of the office. In 
the twenty and more years iluring which he has con- 
tinued to hold this position, the alTairs of the Muffalo 
("lerman Insurance I'o. have prospereil exceedingly. 
The reason for this cannot be founii exclusively in 
the secretary of the com|>any, because the other 



offices and the genend management of the institution 
have l)een vested in able hands. There is no doubt, 
however, that the ini|Kirtant duties assigned to Mr. 
Kggert have been most faithfidly and efficiently |K.'r- 
formed, anil the succ;.'ss of the business must be 
ascrilied in large measure to him. When he became 




OI.IIER J. F.IU.I-KT 

secretary the as.sets of the com|>any were about 
S447,o6()and the net suri)lus S141.(I(MI. Hy July 1, 
IHltti, the a.ssels had risen to 81,H."i(l,(M((l and the sur- 
plus to $1 ,2.">(),(M)tl. 'These comparative figures liem- 
on.strate clearly the success of the coni|)any since Mr. 
Kggert became its secretary. 'The insurance business 
neces.sarily oci upies the chief share of .Mr. T'.ggert's 
time and thought, but he is al.so a trustee and second 
vice president of the Krie I'ounty Savings Hank. Mr. 
Kggert's thorough knowledge of financial subjects 
and sound judgment in matters connei ted therewith 
are of great value in the conduct of banking affairs. 
/' A R S O XA I. C/f K O XO /. O G ) — O/ijrr 
/(■fffr.ioii Kgj^trl loas horn al J'f/fri/m>x, Pftin. , Of/o- 
her .?/, tSJS ; rf(eh'fd a common-sihool n/iiialion : 



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MEN OF NF.ir )-OI^K—lVF.STKRN SKCT/O.X 



conducted a general store at Eggertsville, Erie county, 
N. v., 184~-62 ; married Susan Frick of Eggerts- 
ville No7'ember 15, 18Jf9 ; joas appointed under siteriff 
of Erie county in 1862, and was elected sheriff for the 
years 1865-67 ; has been secretary of the Buffalo Ger- 
man Insurance Co. since 181 Jf. 




JOSEFH l-OULER 

30SCpb jFOWler has practiced medicine in 
liulTalo nearly a i|uartcr of a century, and has thus 
built up an enviable reputation, both professionally 
as a general iiractitioncr and socially as a cultured 
gentleman and thoroughly likable associate. He has 
served the public efficiently in positions of much 
importance, and is widely known, outside the circle 
of his immediate i)ractice, as a man of character and 
responsibility. 

Dr. Fowler was born in Saratoga county. New 
York, shortly before the middle of the century, in 
the township of Clifton Park. His ancestors were 
among the early settlers of that part of the state, 
and both his ])arents and grandparents were like- 
wise born in the same conimiinitv. His jireparatory 



education was obtained at Half Moon Academy in 
his native town. He was unable to enter upon pro- 
fessional studies at the usual and most convenient 
stage of life, and followed the example of so many 
eminent men by basing his higher education on the 
foundation of preliminary teaching. He undertook 
this work at the age of eighteen, and 
continued to teach for four or five years. 
At the end of that time his resources 
were such that he was able to carry out 
his plans to fit himself for the medical 
profe.ssion ; and in 18()!) he left Saratoga 
county for the other end of the state, 
matriculating in the medical department 
of the University of Buffalo. Taking his 
degree in 1878, he began practice in 
Buffalo at once, with the hajjpy results 
stated in our opening paragraph. 

The early career of a young physician 
in a large city, without special prestige, 
family connections of value, or other 
la\oring circumstance, is likely to be 
somewhat thorny ; and Dr. Fowler had 
no magician's wand with which to dissi- 
jjate the natural and inevitable drawbacks 
of his early professional environment. 
His progress, however, was rapid, and 
the conditions quickly changed for the 
better. The " personal equation " counts 
for much in the physician's calling, 
and Dr. Fowler's engaging manners and 
genial disposition doubtless helped him 
onward in the struggle for success. As 
early as 1881 he was elected one of the 
coroners for F-rie county, and served a 
term of three years. He has always 
been a consistent Republican in jjolitical 
affiliations, and has been prominently 
mentioned at various times in connec- 
tion with important offices at the certain or ])ossible 
disposal of his party. His name was before the 
convention on more than one occasion as that of 
a suitable candidate for the office of su])erintendent 
of education for the city of Buffalo, and in issil he 
received the Republican nomination for the office. 
He was appointed by Mayor Becker, in 1886, surgeon 
to the department of police, and has since discharged 
the duties of that office with ability and zeal. 

Dr. F"owler believes in supporting professional 
societies, and belongs to several, including the New 
York State Medical Association and the Erie County 
Medical Society. For ten years he was on the 
medical staff of the Sisters of Charity Hospital. 
He believes thoroughly, too, in fraternal a.sso( iations 



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that caiMcity. Meainvhilc he was making hiuistli 
tt-lt as a power in local affairs, and in recognition ol 
his strength and ability the Democratic party in 
I'*!!! nominated him for comptroller of the city of 
HiilTalo. His elei tion foUowetl 1)\ an overwhelming 
majority, attesting the |Kipiilarity of the c-andidale. 

Mr. (lavin's record in the office of comptroller is 
one to which he can always look liack with justifiable 
|)ri(le. In this position he established a |>ermanent 
reputation as a thorough exe< utive officer and an 
astute llnanc ier. Men of l)oth |>;irties applauded his 
administration of the city's fiscal affairs. He nego- 
tiated several munici|>al loans to the great advantage 
of the city. His skill in this direction elicited the 
praise of financial journals of repute throughout the 
I'nited States. He placed one loan in New Ndrk 
citv at the reniarkablv Ioh rate of two and one half 



unprofessional in scojie, and ha.s taken advanced 
standing in the ranks of M.i.sons, Odd fellows, and 
similar societies. 

PERSO.\AL CIIKOXOl.OGV—Joieph l-\m'l,-r 
todi born in Clifton Park tmon'ihip, Sttriitogii ioiiiily, 
X. Y., A/iiv-l, IS47 : 7i<as etiucitlfj in the schools of his 
native town ; tauj^lit school, ISOJf-tlH ; marriej Cor- 
nelia F. Cmvles of Buffalo in 1867 ; graduated from 
the medical def>artinent of the University of Buffalo in 
1S7-1 : teas elected a coroner of Erie county in ISHl ; 
71HJS Ref'uhlicaii candidate for supenntendent of educa- 
tion of Buffalo in ISHU : 7i>as appointed surgeon of the 
department of police in IS'SO, and has held the position 
since : has practiced medicine in Buffalo since IS'7-l. 
••• 

JOSCpb E. Gavin has displayed in the 
nunageiuciit of |jri\atc business and public affairs 
the characteristics and tjualities of a suc- 
cessful financier. Born in Huflalo, he is 
thoroughly familiar with the history antl 
development of the city, in which indeed 
he has been no insignificant factor. .V 
genial disposition, intelligent comprehen- 
sion of business details, executive ability, 
and fidelity to duty, have commeniletl Mr. 
(iavin to the attention and confidence of 
the commercial cla.s.ses of the city and 
its people generally. He is in the very 
prime of a vigorous manhooii, progres- 
sive, popular, and .self-reliant. What he 
has already accomplished augurs a sik - 
cessful and an honorable future. 

Mr. (lavin wa.s educated in the publi<: 
schools of HiitTalo, and pursued his col- 
legiate studies at St. Joseph's College in 
that city and at St. Michael's College, 
Toronto, from which he grailuated shortly 
after attaining his majority. .M'ter com- 
pleting his studies he entered the coal 
and wooil business with his father, on 
whose death he succeeded to the entire 
business. In the course of several vears 
Mr. (lavin had the satisfaction of seeing 
this enter])rise grow to large pro|iortions 
under careful and judicious management. 

It is, however, in the fieUI of politiis 
and publii affairs that Mr. (lavin is Itest 
known, anil has won the greatest distinc- 
tion. His temiK-nuiient is such that he 
rejoices in the u|)s and downs of |)olitical 

contests, and is never discouraged by defeat nor |ier cent. It was Mr. (lavin who, as comptroller, 
unduly elated by victory. In Mr. Cleveland's first saved the city over ?ltl(»,(MMI by his discovery that 
administration Mr. (lavin was a customs ins|)ector at the fines collected from criminals had lieen paid into 
liuffalo, and served the piiblii- faithfully and well in the county trcasurv. instead of to the city. Mr. 




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Gavin's career in the office of comptroller \vas so 
successful that upon the expiration of his term the 
council, ])ursuing an unusual course, adopted a reso- 
lution of ])ul)lic approval ; and the jiress, irrespective 
of i)arty, complimented him on the good service he 
had rendered to the city and the people of Huffalo. 




FK'AXK T. r,I I.BERT 

Mr. Cavin was again the candidate of his jjarty in 
1894, this time for congress. It was the Republican 
tidal-wave year, and the Republican candidate won, 
though Ijy a margin so narrow as to justify the claim 
of Mr. (lavin's friends that a different result would 
have been reached, but for the mistake of many 
voters who cast the state ballot containing only the 
names of state candidates. 

Since retiring from the comptroller's offi<e Mr. 
Gavin has been engaged in the bond business, and 
has handled successfully over ten million dollars' 
worth of bonds, including .several i.ssues of the city 
of Huffalo and other municipalities, ])art of the 
.?!),0U(», ()()() state canal bonds, and over .fl , (1(1(1. (i(i() 
of the last issue of (lovernment 4's. 



Mr. Gavin is a member of numerous societies of a 
social and benevolent character, and is one of the 
men who can be counted on in behalf of every patri- 
otic and worthy movement. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G Y— Joseph Ed- 
icHinl GiiTi'ii 7vas born at Buffalo No%>emher H, lSf>5 ; 
7vas educated in piihlic schools, St. Joseph' s 
Co//ei;e, Buffalo, and St. MichaeP s Col- 
/e^e, Toronto ; married Sarah R. Candee 
of Huffalo October SI, 1881 ; tvas customs 
inspector at Buffalo, 188o-89, and comp- 
troller of the city, 1892-9^ ; has been 
eni^ra^ed in the coal and 7C'ood business in 
Buffalo since 1883. 



Jfraul? TL. Gilbert "as bom in 

Brooklyn, and began his education in 
the public schools of that city. Later he 
attended the public schools of Phoenix, 
N. Y., whither his parents had moved, 
as well as Palley Seminary, at I'ulton, 
N. Y. ; and at the age of eighteen he 
received his diploma from .Ames's C'om- 
mercial College in Syraoise. 

When about twenty years of age Mr. 
Gilbert commenced his business career 
in a country store in Phoenix, in part- 
nership with his father. After a short 
but successful business experience, he 
entered the law office of C. W. Avery 
of Phoenix, as a student, and remained 
with him about two years, when he aban- 
doned the study of the law and returned 
to commercial pursuits. He accejjted a 
position as bookkee])er with one of the 
large shipping houses of Buffalo, having 
moved to that city in IJSTI. From then 
until 1880 he was in the employ of 
AVilliam Avery & Go., L. P. Smith & 
Co., and Lothridge, Gallagher & Co. — firms that 
were doing a large .shipping business at that time on 
the Buffalo docks. 

When William W. Lawson became sheriff of I'-rie 
county in 1880, Mr. Gilbert was ai)pointed one of 
his deputies, and served in that capacity for one year. 
At that time John B. Weber resigned his position as 
under sheriff, and Mr. (lilbert succeeded him, hold- 
ing the ])osition during the remainder of Sheriff 
I-awson's administration, as well as during that of 
Sheriff Koch, who succeeded Mr. Lawson. Mr. 
Gilbert has only once been a candidate for public 
office. In 1885 he was nominated on the Republican 
ticket for sheriff of l^rie county, and at the Novem- 
ber election he wns chosen by a plurality of nearly 



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.■{<)()() votes. His loiij; fxiifrieiue as cicpnty shorilT 
anil iinik-r sIhtIiT had fitted him well tor this res|ion- 
sihie position, and he disjilayed in the higher offiie 
the same ability that had charac terized his condut I 
in the siihordinate positions. 

.At the expiration of his term of otVii e .Mr. (lillierl 
again gave his attention to business matters. He 
became interested in various commereial antl mann- 
facttiring enterprises, and spent muc h of his time, 
es|)e('ially during the winter, in llorida, where he 
aicpiireil a large <|uantity of valuable real estate, ami 
where he now has profitable orange groves. When 
(leorge II. I. amy became sheriff of l-^rie county in 
|X!I"), he iirgeil .Mr. (lilbert to become un<ler sheriff. 
.Mr. (lilbert accepted the appointment, an<l still 
holils the position. 

.\side from his business and fjfficial connections, 
.Mr. (iilliert is one of the best-known 
members of the .Masonic fraternity in 
western New \'ork. He is I'ast Master 
of Washington Lodge, No. 240, Kree and 
.\cce])ted .Ma.sons. He is a member of 
Keystone fhapter, No. 1 (!.'?, Royal \uh 
Masons, of which he is also Past High 
I'riest. He is Eminent fommander of 
Hugh de I'ayens Commandery, No. •'!(>, 
Knights Templars. He is Illustrious Po- 
tentate of Ismailia Temple, aiK ieiit .Arabic 
Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He 
is a member of Keystone Council, No. 
li((. Royal and Select Masters, and a ;52d 
degree .Ma.son, belonging to the Buffalo 
Consistory. Mr. Cilbert is es|)eciall) 
proficient in all the beautiful ceremonial 
work of these Ma-sonic loiiges. 

Mr. Cilbert has always been a Repub- 
lican, and hxs taken an a< tivc interest in 
politics and in all public matters, and he 
has occasionally written for the i)ress 
upon iniblic (|uestions of the day. He 
is not a member of any religious denom- 
ination, but is a regular attendant at the 
Cnitarian Church, and is in hearty syni 
|»athy with its principle — the Katherhood 
of (Jod and the brotherhood of man. 

PEA'SOXAL ClIKOXOL OGY— 
Frank T. Gilbert 7vas horn at Brooklyn 
Octoher 1, ISJ^O ; was eiiucalfil in the 
f>ul>lic schools, at Falley Seminary, and 
at .-tines' s Commerdal Colle};e, Syracuse: 
marricil Ifelen A. /irii^s of I'hueni.x, X. )'.. Octoher 
10, ISliO : eni;ageil in husiness in Phoenix, hWS-HO ; 
sttiJieil law, 1SI!!}-71: went to Buffalo in 1S71, and en- 
j^ax'Cil in mercantile />iirsuits until ISSO : icas a/>/u>inteil 



deputy sheriff of Erie county in ISSO and under sheriff 
in JSSl, and was elected sheriff in JSS/i : has been 
under sheriff of Erie county since Janiian 1, ISO't. 

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CbflrlCtJ H. GOUlD is one of the young men 
who by their own unaided energy and |K.Tseverance 
have worked their way to wealth, social |>osition, 
and prominence. He was l)orn in llatavia, N. Y., 
where he |ias.sed his boyhood. He was e<lii< aled in 
the jiublic sihools of his native town, and pre|>;ired 
himself lor college. He was unable, however, to 
carry out his plans in this regard, ;ls his father met 
with business reverses. Thrown thus upon his own 
resources, Mr. Could naturally turned his thoughts 
towaril ItiilTalo, the largest i ity in his vicinity ; and 
thither he went in l«ti!t, a young man of twenty, 
to earn his own livelihood. 




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\\c WIS first engaged with a large mercantile firm, 
and there gained the Inisiness cx|jerience that was 
to lie so beneficial to him in after years. Ciraduallv 
he l>egan to take an active iwrt in |)olitics. 'There 



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was a stirring local campaign in Huffalo in 1870, 
and Mr. (iould's interest in ])olitical matters dates 
from that time. He showed taste and decided alnl- 
ity for public affairs, and it \va.s not long before he 
had become prominent in local Republican councils. 
In 1.S78 he was appointed deputy postmaster of Buf- 
falo, and served in that position for two years. 
Then he was appointed collector of customs for the 
district of Buffalo Creek, by President Garfield, and 
served from 1880 to 1884, when the Democrats 
came into power with the first election of President 
Cleveland. During all these years Mr. Gould was 
one of the leaders of his party in Erie county, tak- 
ing a prominent part in many Republican campaign 
organizations, and acting for many years as a mem- 
ber of the Republican county committee. 

With Mr. Gould's retirement from office there 
began a third period in his life. He had been an 
accountant and a public official. He now became a 
manufacturer, and in this field he has since con- 
tinued with steadily growing success and prosperity. 
He bought an interest in the Henry Childs Steam 
Forge in South Buffalo, which he ran for a number 
of years with marked success. In 1887 he purchased 
ground at Black Rock, and built a large steam forge 
of his own, which he ecpiipijed with the very best 
modern ai)pliances for the manufacture of shafting, 
locomotive driving axles, car axles, links and pins, 
and other railway appliances. Success attended the 
new undertaking. 

Soon after the erection of this new plant he took up 
the manufacture of what is now known as the Ciould 
automatic coupler. He was not satisfied with plac- 
ing the CJould equipment on American railways, but 
in 1895 succeeded in introducing it abroad, and 
it is now in use on several of the largest railways 
of England. In fact, the (iould system seems likely 
to become the standard for ICnglish railways, and to 
change entirely their old method of vestibuling cars. 
The Gould Coujjier Co. was organized with Mr. 
(lould as its president. I,ater the (Jould Steel Co. 
of Anderson, Ind., was formed, with Mr. CJould as 
president of this latter concern, also. Since 1 88!) Mr. 
(iould's home has been in New York city, where 
the main offices of these companies are situated. 

.\ picture.scpie episode of Mr. Gould's life is the 
establishment of the town of Dejiew. N'eed of lietter 
railroad facilities led him to look about for a new 
site, which he found near the village of Lancaster, 
N. Y. Within three years a tract of farming land 
ten miles from Buffalo was transformed into a thriv- 
ing industrial community of several thousand |)eople. 
In this transformation Mr. (louid has been one of 
the chief factors ; and he was the originator of the 



general plan. The Buffalo Investment Co. was formed 
with Mr. Gould as president, and about 1300 acres 
of land were bought. The New York Central road 
took 100 acres for new shops; and the Gould 
Coupler Co. took 50 acres, on which thev erected 
one of the largest malleable iron works in the 
country. The forge at Black Rock was destroyed 
by fire in the summer of 1895. It was a disheart- 
ening lo.ss, but Mr. (lould with indomitable push 
immediately decided to rebuild at Depew with in- 
creased facilities and modern appliances. 

Personally Mr. Gould is of a very social nature. 
He is a lover of yachting, and is commodore of the 
Douglaston Yacht Club, as well as a member of the 
New York, American, and Larchmont yacht clubs. 
Other organizations of a social nature with which 
he is connected are the New York Athletic, Repub- 
lican, and Engineers' clubs of New York city ; the 
Buffalo and Ellicott clubs of Buffalo; the Chicago 
Club ; the Manufacturers' Club of Philadelphia ; 
and the Flushing Club of Flushing. He is a gen- 
erous giver to church and benevolent objects. He 
is senior warden of the F^piscojial Church of the 
Holy Nativity in New York city, and is president of 
St. Andrew's Free Hospital for women at Harlem. 

FEJiS ON A L CHR ONOL O G 1— Charles 
Albert Gould was born at Batavia, N. Y. , January 
IS, ISJtf) ; was educated hi public schools ; went to 
Buffalo in 1869, and began work as an accountant ; 
married Adelaide Stochins; of Batavia September 1, 
ISd!) : was deputy postmaster of Buffalo, 1878-79, 
and collector of customs there, 1880-8^ ; went into 
business for himself as a partner in a steam-forge com- 
pany in 188-i, and later established a forge of his own : 
is president of the Gould Coupler Co. of Depe7v, yV. Y. , 
and the Gould Steel Co. of Anderson, Ind. 



S. S. (5rCCn 's an eminent |)hysician of Buf- 
falo, whose life lias been somewhat more varied and 
active than that of most professional men. He is a 
lineal descendant of Samuel Green, who came to this 
country from England in 1030, and settled in Boston. 
Dr. Green is a native of Vermont, and is one of a 
family of fourteen children. 1 le received his primary 
education in the common schools and in local 
academies, and then attended Nine Partners' Friends' 
College at Washington, N. Y. He had determined 
to become a physician, but as he was without means 
to carry on his medical studies he now taught school 
for two years to obtain the necessary funds. He 
then entered the medical department of the Univer- 
sity of Michigan, and after a year there became a 
medical student in the I'niversity of the City of New 
York, from which he graduated in 1804 with honors. 



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The Civil War was at its height when Dr. (Ireen 
took his degree, and his first step after graduation 
was to offer his services to the government as assistant 
surgeon in the navy. Perhaps he inherited a jutriotit 
nature tVotn his ancestors, one ot' whom was (lencral 
.\athanael (Ireene, one of the most distinguished 
officers of the Revohition, who received 

from congress a gold medal and a vote of , 

thanks for his brilliant military at hievc- | 
ments. Dr. (Ireen was a|>i)ointed acting 
assistant surgeon in the United States 
navy, and after a few weeks at the Brook 
lyn Navy Vard he was orilered to New 
( )rleans, where he reported to .\dmiral 
Karragut for iluty. He was assigned l)y 
him to the Inited States steamer "Ari- 
zona," afterwards .Xdmiral Thatcher's 
flagship. Dr. (Ireen served on hoard the 
".Arizona" for one year, and was then 
promoted to the post of examining sur- 
geon, and charged with the examination 
of men who were transferred from the 
army to the navy. While performing the 
duties of this |)osition he was stricken 
with yellow fever, and for over three 
weeks was confined in the naval hospital 
at New Orleans. Seven men died around 
him, l>ut his excellent constitution res- 
cued him from the terrihle grasp of the 
disease. He resumed his ])Ost of duty, 
and served in the navy until he was hon 
oralily discharged at the close of the war. 

Dr. (Ireen then turned his attention to 
general practice, and settled in I jgrange- 
ville, N. Y. , where he devoted him.sell 
for several years to the arduous duties of 
a lountry jihysician. In 1H7.S he was ap- 
pointed surgeon on the ves.sel "fharles 
H. Marshall," sailing between New York 
and Liver|)ool ; and he subseipiently filled a similar 
post on the ".\la.ska," running between Panama 
and San Francisco, l-inally, in ix""), he moved to 
Buffalo, and has ever since practiced there with grati- 
fying success. For six years he was one of the 
district physicians of the city, and proved him.self an 
able and energetic publii- servant. He is a meml>er 
of the Krie County Medical -Society, the New York 
State Medical As.sociation, the .\merican Medical 
As.sociation, and the International Medical Con- 
gress. It need hardly be added that Dr. C.reen 
holds a prominent place in his profession. 

In 1HS8 Dr. Green gratified his fondness for travel 
by making a trip around the world. He cros.sed 
the countrv via the Canadian I'at ifi< railwav to 



N'ancouver, H. C., and thence made his way south 
through the Puget-sound region and along the coast 
of Southern California and Mexico. Returning to 
.Sjin Francisco, he took steamer for Ia|>;m, and con- 
tinued his course west through the ()rient, traveling 
■'{110(1 miles in India alone. 




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Dr. Creen has won considerable loial fame as a 
sportsman, and has made many hunting trips to the 
Canadian forests. On such an excursion he shot one 
of the largest moose ever known. The head of this 
magnifi<ent animal adorns the rooms of the .-Xcacia 
Club, Buffalo, and is one of the finest s|K"cimens of 
its ( l.i.ss anywhere on e\hibiti<)n. Dr. (ireen is also 
a lover of good horses, and owns .some of the l>est 
trotters in Buffalo. 

Dr. Creen is an active member o( the (I. .\. R., 
and an officer of Hidwell-Wilkeson Post, No. !l, of 
Buffalo. He is a member of the A. O. C. W., the 
Red Men, the Royal Templars of 'I'emperance, and 
the .\cacia Chib. He is jirominent in Ma.sonic 
circles, having receivetl the .'{"Jd degree in the 



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MEA OF XKir yORK—ll-ESTERX SECT/OX 



Scottish Rite, and attained meml)er.ship in the follow- 
ing Masonic, bodies : Queen City Lodge, No. 358, 
F. & A. M. : Keystone Chajiter, No. 162, R. A. M. ; 
Keystone Council, No. 20 : Hugh de Payens Com- 
niandery. No. oO, K. T. ; and Ismailia Temple, 
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of 




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Calvary Presliyterian Church, and is clo.sely identi- 
fied with the social and philanthropic life of Buffalo. 
PERSONAL CNR ONOL O G Y— Stephen Squire 
Green luas Iwrn at Starkshoro, Vt. , Janiiarx (1, ISSO : 
studied medicine at the University of Micliigan, and 
received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the 
University of the City of Neiv York March 4, 1SG4 : 
served as a surgeon in the United States navv, JS6'4- 
(>i) ; married Charlotte S. Cornell of Gaysville, Vt. , 
January G, 1806 ; has practiced medicine in Buffalo 
since ISlli. 



IDcviUo M. Ifjarriutjton has devoted his 

life to the study and jjractice of medicine. He was 
born at Sheri)urne, N. Y., where his early education 



wa.s received. I'o obtain a higher education, and 
pre])are him.self for the profession of medicine, he 
taught school for several years, and at one time wa.s 
|)rincipal of the Sherburne .\cadeniy. He was ready 
to enter college when the Civil War broke out, and 
was thus called u|)on to choose lietween private 
interests and public duty. I'he choice 
was not difficult for him, as he came of 
an American lineage noted for patriotism 
and civic spirit. Instead of entering col- 
lege he enlisted in the Union army, and 
served for three years as a volunteer sol- 
dier. He was for one year in the 7th 
corps under General Di.x, and X.\\o years 
in the 1st Ne\v York dragoons. He was 
twice wounded on the field of battle. 
When the war ended he wa.s honorably 
discharged from service, and returned to 
his native town. 

Having devoted to the cause of his 
country the years he had intended to pass 
in college, he no« felt obliged to forego 
a classical training. Taking up, there- 
fore, the study of medicine directly, he 
entered the medical department of the 
L'niversity of Buffalo, from which he 
received the degree of M. D. in 1871. 

Dr. Harrington's career as a physician 
is part of the medical history of Buffalo 
for the past ipiarter of a century. B\- 
honorable and professional means he has 
acijuired a large practice ; and has been 
invited to act as physician at various 
institutions, and to assume the duties of 
a professorship in the medical department 
of his alma mater. 

To a theoretic knowledge of medicine 
Dr. Harrington had the opportunity to 
add the most practical knowledge, by his 
appointment in the year of his graduation as resident 
physician of the Buffalo Ceneral Hospital. For nine 
years he was the attending surgeon of the Hospital of 
the Sisters of Charity, and for the past ten years he 
has been ('onsulling surgeon of the Buffalo Ceneral 
Hos])ital. In 1>'^><(> he was elected a member of the 
medical faculty of the University of Buffalo, and a 
professor in the subject of genito-urinary and venereal 
di.sea.ses. He had previously held the position of 
lecturer on clinical surgery in the .same institution, 
and his advancement attests the regard of his asso- 
ciates for him as a teacher and a man learned in his 
subject. 

Dr. Harrington is a constant worker, of methodical 
habits, keenly ai)iirecialive of the value of time ; and 



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he finds no leiMirc lor politiial or < hit) life. He is a 
nieml)er, however, of all the leading inedital ;lsso< ia 
tions. 

PERSONAL CHROXOI.OGY— Df.iiio 
Wliilf Hiirrington was horn at Shtrlmnie, N. Y., 
Oclohfr ^.i, ISJf.'t : atUiuifii district schools, and tau)^hl 
for sc'cral years ; scn'cJ in tiie Union army, IdHJ-il.'i : 
X'rat/uatet/ from the medical departtnent of the Uni- 
versity of Buffalo in 1S7 1 : married Annie Scott of 
Buffalo October U), ISl'i : has practiced medicine at 
Huffalo since /.VT/. 

'IOIU6 .H?. lliirt has won a prominent place in 
|)ul)lic notiie, ai an ajjc when many voting men 
are still casting; ahoiit to lietiile what their life-work 
shall he : for he is now hut twenty-seven years old. 
He has made every year tell, and has wasted no time 
on things that were not worth while. 

.\t the age of fit'teen he had comjileted 
the course of instruction olTered hy the 
|)ul>lic schools of I.ockijort, and had lie- 
giin the study of stenography. Since 
the time when Tiro, the celebrated slave, 
acted in the ca|)acity of .set retary to 
the great orator Cicero, a century before 
Christ, inventing a set of characters for 
recording his jKitron's eloi|uence, the art 
of stenography has lieen made a steji- 
ping-stone to higher things l)V nianv an 
amliitious youth. I'atience, a reliable 
memory, coolness of nerve, and |)ower of 
physical endurance, are recpiisites for sm - 
cess in the hieroglyphic art : and these 
<|ualities Mr. Hart ]>osses.ses in a marked 
degree. The s|)eeil and accuracy which 
he readily attained heljjed him at once 
to a position in the office of !•;. .\l. iV 
l-'. M. Ashley, prominent lawyers of 
I.ock()ort. In this legal atmosphere it 
was natural enough that his thoughts 
should turn towards the study of law . hut 
he wisely de< iiled to ailhere to his task 
until the recpiisite funds should lie laid 
liy. .\ twelvemonth |>a.s.sed, and he was 
invited to become the private secretary 
of Senator McMillan at .Albany. This 
opportunity to see the inside workings 
of the state legislature was not to lie 
considered lightly, an<l he accepted. 
The year was t'lill of interesting cNjieri- 
ences, but Mr. Hart was not to be deterred from the 
study of law, which he had now fully decided to un- 
dertake. He therefore returned to I.ockport to 
study in the oflite of I'illsworth \- I'otter, acting 



at the siime time as their stenographer. .Ml through 
his studies he did double duty in this way. 

.Mr. Hart's appointment as stenographer to the 
grand jury of Krie county by District Attorney 
Quinby occurred in the month of his twenty-first 
birthday, and he held that |)osition lour years. He 
was then i)roinoted to lie managing clerk, and w;ls 
rea|)i)ointed to that office the following year by 
District .\ttorney Kenefick. In the meantime his 
devotion to his law studies remained unchanged. 
He became a sjiecial student at the Huffalo I-tw 
School, and was admitted to the bar in IMifi. Un 
January 1, lX!t(l, he was a|j|iointcd clerk of the Sur- 
rogate's Court by I.ouis W. Man us. 

PERSONAL C/fROXOLOGY— Louis Bret 
Hart was born at Medina, N. Y., March ,iO, JSOff : 
was educated in the Lockport schools and the Buffalo 




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I^aw School : loas admitted to the far in ISO J ; 7vas 
stenoi:;rapher and aftenvard clerk to the grand jury of 
Erie county, lSf)()-fl') ; has been clerk of the Surro- 
,i;ate' s Court of Erie county since Januarx 1, IS.'^l. 



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JObn TR. llDa^el secured a great advantage in 
this rushing age by gaining admittance to the bar 
at his majority ; so that novv, though only in his 
thirty-sixth year, he has spent nearly half his life in 
the pursuit of the law. Perseverance, industry, and 
pluck have been the characteristic qualities of his 




JOIIX R. HAZKI. 

career ; and these always win in a land of oppor- 
tunity, no matter what unfavorable circumstances 
may hinder their possessor. 

Mr. Hazel is a Buffalonian by birth. He was 
obliged to leave school at the early age of twelve and 
liegin work. He first obtained employment in 
White's F^dge Tool Works, and remained there two 
years. His next jjosition was in the law office of 
James C. Fullerton, then assistant city attorney. 
Here he found work that was not only congenial, but 
led to something higher. By attending night .school, 
and using every ojjportunity to cultivate his mind, 
he fitted himself for the study of law ; and in time 
was admitted to the bar, and became the jjartner of 
his former employer and preceptor. The law office 



has been the training school and stepping-stone of 
.some of the ablest lawyers America has produced — 
men who have made up for the lack of collegiate 
training by zealous home and office study. 

The firm of Fullerton & Hazel was soon increased 
by the addition of Tracy C. Becker, and became 
Fullerton, Becker & Hazel. This pro- 
fessional partnership continued for eight 
years. Mr. Hazel then associated with 
himself Frank A. Abbott, and he is now 
the senior member of the firm of Hazel 
& Abbott. Mr. Hazel has been a busy 
lawyer, and has seen his practice grow 
steadily ever since his admission to the 
bar. He is a hard worker, and conscien- 
tiously serves the interests of his clients. 
Mr. Hazel is an active Republican, 
and has been repeatedly honored by his 
party. In 1891 he was nominated for 
member of the state assembly, and though 
the normal Democratic majority in his 
district was loUO, he came within 150 
votes of election. In 1894 he was ap- 
pointed by Comptroller Roberts com- 
missioner of corporation tax. Mr. Hazel 
has been a member of the Rejmblican 
state committee since 189:2, and is active 
in many local Republican clubs. He 
served as secretary of the Republican 
general committee of Buffalo for nearly 
ten years. This party service was fit- 
tingly rewarded by his election, in 1896, 
as a delegate to the Re])ublican national 
convention at St. Louis. 

Mr. Hazel is a member of St. Louis 
t'hurch, Buffalo, is connected with many 
social and benevolent organizations, and 
has a wide circle of friends in both pro- 
fessional and social life. 
PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— John Raymond 
Hazel was born at liitffalo December 18, 1860 : re- 
ceived a common-school education : studied law, and 
7CH1S admitted to practice April 7, 1882 : was appointed 
commissioner of corporation tax in 189 Jf : 7t'as a dele- 
i^ate to the Republican national convention at St. Louis 
in 1890 ; has been a member of the Republican state 
committee since 1892 .■ has practiced hnc in Buffalo 
since 1882. 



HjCrbCrt /ID. If^ill i^ one of the best-known 
theoretical and jiractical chemists in the country. 
He titled him.self for his present work by a thorough 
course of preliminary education. After the training 
obtainable in the district schools of his native place, 



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anil in the j,'ranimar and high si hools of Watertown, 
N. v., Dr. Hill cntcreil Hamilton College, whence 
he was graduated in June, ISTJt, with the degree of 
A. B. For the last two years of his college i oiirse 
he was assistant in < hargc of the i hemical labora- 
tory at the college, and in 1H7!)-S(> he took a [tost- 
graduate course at Hamilton in chemistry and miner- 
alogy. 

Dr. Hill's first engagement in tea< hing was a 
profes-sorship of (ireek and I^lin in the fortland 
( N. Y.) Normal School, to which he was apitointed 
in 1880. He went to Minnesota the .same year as 
second in charge of a jxirty sent out by eastern 
capitalists to pros|)ect for iron. This trip resulted in 
the establishment of mines at Tower on X'ermilion 
lake in northern .Minnesota. On his return Dr. Hill 
was a|)pointed jirofessor of natural sciences and 
mathematics in the high school at Water- 
town, .N. V. — a position that he filled 
acceptably for eight years. .\t the end 
of this |)eriod he was deservedly honored 
by an ap|K>intment as |)rinci|)al of the 
school. 

But higher honors awaited him. The 
Buffalo .Medical College stood in need of 
a thoroughly ca|)able man to be its pro- 
fessor of chemistry and toxicology, and 
after carefully scanning the field the fac 
ulty offered the place to Dr. Hill. Me 
accepted the offer, and since 18)S!I has 
Iteen a resident of Buffalo, where his 
many estimable ipialities and his intel 
lectual attainments have made him an 
honored citizen. Besides the iK)sition 
already mentioned. Dr. Hill is profes-sor 
of general and analytical chemistry in the 
BiilTalo College of Pharmacy, and profes 
sor of general chemistry in the Buffalo 
Dental College. These three colleges 
are de|)artments of the L'niversity of 
BufTalo. 

1-rom 1885 to 188i» Dr. Hill was (hem 
ist to the state dairy commission, and he 
now ably fills the |>osition of city chemist 
of BufTalo. He has many commission-^ 
in the realm of a|iplied chemistry as re 
lated to the industries. He is consulting 
chemist for the Iroipinis Chemical Works, 
the Victor Mineral Spring Co., and the 
Milsom Rendering \- Kerlili/er C"o. He 
has also figured as an e.\|)crt in a number of « riniinal 
cases. Among his field e-vjieriences may be men- 
tioned a trip lo the Ontario gold fields that he made 
as an expert in lS!(."i. 



Since his graduation f'rom Hamilton College Dr. 
Hill has Ijeen twice honored by his alniti maUr : in 
18«2 he received the degree of Master of Arts, and 
in 1S!I() that of Doctor of Philosophy. 

Dr. Hill is a thorough student, and his connec- 
tions outside the active practice of his profession are 
largely with organizations allied thereto. He is a 
meml)er of the American Chemical Society, the 
.■\merican Microscopical Society, the Buffalo Scniety 
of Natural Sciences, the Buffalo .\licros< opical Club, 
and the I-Ingineers' Society of Western New Vork. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOG'^—Hfrberl M,il 
lolm Hill was horn at Burrs Mills, Jefferson county, 
iV. )'. , Afa\ 1!», ISolJ : j^raJiiatfJ from Hamilton 
ColUi^e in 187!> : married Amanda Elizahflh Isdfll of 
Watertown, N. V. , June 1, 1880 ; was a professor 
in the U'aterlinon High School. ISSIsn, and /'rincif'al 




llliRlil-Kr M lilt I 



thereof, ISSSSfl ; was chemist to the state dairy 
commission, lSS.'i-8f) : has lifed in Buffalo since 1880, 
holdini; firofessorshif<s in different departments of the 
L 'niversity of Buffalo. 



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.1/A".\' ()/•■ XEW )OKK—lVKSTER.\ SKiT/0.\ 



HlVill B. 1l3UbbCll has practiced medicine in 
BuH'alo lor sixteen years, and for the last thirteen 
years has devoted himself exclusively to diseases of 
the eye and ear. In this specialty he has attained 
great distinction. He has kept in touch with the 
leading; oculists, not onlv of this countrv but also of 




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Europe ; and his studies have twice taken him 
across the Atlantic, where he has visited the leading 
ophthalmic hospitals of Birmingham, London, and 
Paris. He has had occasion to jjerform many dififi- 
cult operations, the most notable of which, perhaps, 
outside of his ophthalmic surgery, occurred only two 
years after his graduation, when he performed 
laparotomy for intussusception of the intestines — 
the fourth o])eration for this di.sease in the United 
States. He has added materially to the appliances 
for the practice of his specialty. He devised an im- 
proved electro-magnet, in 1H84, for e.xtracting steel 
from the interior of the eye. Another invention is 
a new form of ear scissors, designed for him by 
Creorge 'lilman & Co. of New \'ork. He has 



received high honors from numerous medical socie- 
ties, and from Niagara University, the medical de- 
partment of which he was foremost in organizing. 
This university conferred on him, in 1886, the ad 
etindem degree of M. L)., and in 18il.') the higher 
degree of Doctor of Philosophy. 

Dr. Hubbell's grandparents were \no- 
neer settlers of western New York, as 
their ancestors were of the American con- 
tinent. He traces his descent to Richard 
Hubbell, who emigrated from England 
in 1(545, and settled in Fairfield, Conn. 
Dr. Hubbell was the eldest of four chil- 
dren. His early education was obtained 
in the common schools, and in Randolph 
.\cademy (now Chamberlain Institute) at 
Randolph, N. Y. He also taught school 
several years in the intervals of his own 
tuition. At the age of eighteen he began 
reading medicine, continuing the study 
under different physicians in Cattaraugus 
county for three years. Among his pre- 
ce[jtors was Dr. Thomas J. Wheeler of 
Rutledge (now Conewango), at that time 
one of the most eminent practitioners in 
western New York. Dr. Hubbell then 
attended medical lectures in Philadelphia 
for two years, and at the age of twenty- 
three began general medical practice in 
[,eon, Cattaraugus county. Not satisfied 
« ith the education already acquired, after 
six years of practice he entered the med- 
ical department of the University of Buf- 
falo, whence he graduated February 23, 
l.S7(;, wiiming one of the Millard Fill- 
more cash jjrizes for the best thesis. He 
then returned to his general practice at 
I, eon ; but his interest in eye and ear 
diseases soon induced him to move to 
Buffalo, where he could specialize the.se subjects. 
With what success he has done so has alreadv been 
shown. 

Dr. Hubbell actively sujiports manv professional 
societies, including the Buffalo Medical Union, the 
Buffalo .Academy of Medicine, the Buffalo ()i)hthal- 
mological Society, and the Erie Coimty Medical 
.Association. He belongs, also, to the New York 
State Medical .Association, and to the Medical .Asso- 
ciation of t'entral New York, of whii h he has been 
president. The American Medical Association like- 
wise has his name on its membership roll, as well as 
the .American Ophthalmological Society, the highest 
association of its kind in the country. Dr. Huidiell 
was a member of the Ninth International Medic al 



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( 'ongrcss held in W'ashingluii i ity in ISM7, olthe I'an- 
American Medical Congress held in the s;ime place in 
IHJI.S, and of the International Ophthalmological 
Congress held in Kdinl)iirgh in \X\H. He l>elon};s 
to the Hiiffalo Society of Natural Sc ienccs and to 
other scientific bodies. He is a niemher of the 
society of the Sons of the Revolution, his juternal 
j;reat-grandfather, K/l)on Hubbell, and his maternal 
great-};randfather. U'illiam I'arnsworlh, haxinj; served 
in the revolutionary war. 

After helping to organize the medical department 
of Niagara University, Dr. Hubliell w;is a|i|)ointed 
profes.sor of ophthalmology and otology therein, and 
was elected secretary of the faculty. He has since 
retained these |)ositions, and is an earnest advocate 
of higher medical education. He is attending sur- 
geon to the Charity Kye, l^ar, and Throat Hospital 
of Krie county, and is eye and ear sur- 
geon to the Hos[)ital of the Sisters of 
Charity, and most of the other important 
hospitals in Buffalo. 

Dr. Huhbeil has been a frei|uent ion 
tributor to professional publications on 
subjects relating to his specialty. He is 
associate editor of the Buffalo Medical 
Journal, anti has published in that |)eri- 
odical many articles of a te( hnical nature. 
Several of his papers have appeared in 
the Transactwiis of the New \'ork State 
.Medical .-\s.sociation, the Archivfs of Pe- 
diatrics, the .New \'ork Medical Journal. 
the Archives of Ofhlhalmolo:^}, the Oph- 
thalmic Record, and other professional 
publications. .\n address introductory to 
a course of medical lectures was pub- 
lished by I'eter I'aul \- Bro. of Buflf^do 
in 1S.S.S. 

rr.RSOXAL CIIKOXOLOGV— 
Alvin Allace Uublicll was horn at Cone- 
7oani;o, X. 1'., May 1, ISJ^f! : ivas edu- 
cated in common schools and Randolph 
Academy ; studied medicine at Philadel- 
phia, ISfJT-fjO : began practice at Leon, 
Cattaraugus county, in ISHfl : married 
F.vangeline Fanchcr of Leon June MJ, 
1S7J : graduated from the medical depart- 
ment of the Uni'i'ersity of Buffalo in ISKl : 
practiced general medicine in Ihiffalo from 
ISSO to ISS-i, ami has since confined his 
practice to diseases of the eye and ear : 
has been professor of diseases of the eye and ear in 
the medical department of Niagara Uni-rersity, and 
secretary of the facultv of that department, since its 
organization in ISS.I. 



30bn t>lUHlC3 is a leading factor in what is 
|K'iuliarl\ an .Vmcncan enterprise — the live-stock 
commission business. Success in this industry re- 
i|uires sound judgment, square <lealing, and an accu- 
rate knowledge of the markets. Mr. Hughes (uimc 
to the L'nitetl States from Ireland when a child, so 
that his education and training were for the most 
l«rt distinctly American. He made his home in 
BiilTalo, where he attended the public schools, and 
sub.sei|uently pursued a course at Bryant \' Stration's 
Business College, to fit himself for mercantile life. 
His educational advantages were limited, for he was 
dei)enilent on his own exertions : but he made goml 
use of such op|>ortunities xs came within his rea<h. 

The business career of Mr. Hughes has been 
confined almost entirely to the buying and selling 
of live stock, anil in this he h.is met with deserved 




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success. He first entere<l the business in lH(i)i, 
l)ecoming .xs.sociated with Kdward Swo|>e at I-jLst 
Buffalo. To-day Mr. Hughc-s is a iwrtner in the 
I'irm of Swo|>e, Hughes, Walt/ \' Benstead, one of 



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the largest concerns in western New York operating 
in live stock. Buffalo stands next to Chicago in the 
extent and variety of its live-stock products, and 
is one of the greatest markets of the world. This 
fact is traceable, jiartly to the natural and geo- 
graphical advantages of the city, but largely to the 
energy and business .sagacity of such men a.s Mr. 
Hughes. 

While steadily devoting himself to the demands 
of a growing busines.s, Mr. Hughes has maintained 
a commendable interest in local affairs. In political 
convictions he is a zealous Democrat, but always 
tem|)ers his politics with sterling .sense and proper 
respect for the opinions of others. In short, he be- 
lieves in using the same standard of honesty and 
courtesy in jjolitics as in business. He has never 
sought for political office, having too many business 
cares to permit the discharge of exacting official 
duties. He has, however, served as a park com- 
missioner of Buffalo, having been appointed by 
.Mayor Bishop. In this position he has given the 
city the benefit of tho.se qualities that have made 
him so uniformly successful in business affairs. 

Mr. Hughes is connected with many of the 
moneyed institutions of Buffalo, and three corpora- 
tions have called him to their boards of directors — 
the Milsom Rendering & Fertilizer Co., the Irish- 
American Savings and Loan A.ssociation, and the 
People's Bank. He has been a director of the latter 
institution ever since its organization. He is also a 
member of the Merchants' Kxchange, and is |)resi- 
dent of the Ea.st Buffalo Live Stock Kxchange Co. 
With the tireless energy of the true Iri.shman, Mr. 
Hughes renders efficient service in these varied posi- 
tions, notwithstanding the engrossing cares of his 
jirivate business. He is a Roman Catholic, and a 
member of the Catholic Mutual Benefit As.sociation 
and of the Catholic Legion. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— John Hughes 
was born at Diinmorc, Kilkenny county, Irchmti, about 
1842 ; came to the United States ami settled in Buffalo 
in 1852 ; was educated in the public schools and Bry- 
ant ^- Stratton's Business College: married Afary 
Duffey of Buffalo July 10, 18(H, and Elizabeth Lmrtt 
of Buffalo Afay 8, 1883 ; has been engaged in the lire- 
stock commission business since 1866. 



SbCrman S. JCWCtt is a sterling type of 
.\ineri( an manliood. ( )i magnificent [iresence, fine 
mental endowment, and lofty character, he naturally 
.stands among the foremost men of his community. 
The son of a farmer, he spent his earliest years 
amid the labors and pastimes of rural life. In the 
summer he workeil in the fields, where iloubtless 



he laid the foundation of his robust constitution ; in 
winter he attended the district school, and there 
acquired the essentials of a sound education, though 
the curriculum was limited. At the age of fifteen he 
acted a.s clerk for his half-brother, who owned a 
small country store in Moravia, N. Y. Realizing 
the lack of opportunity in a village, and encouraged 
by the suggestions of his relatives, he determined to 
go to Buffalo and seek work with his uncle, Isaac W. 
Skinner, who owned a foundry there and manufac- 
tured plows and mill machinery. In company 
with a neighbor who was taking a load of produce 
to market, Mr. Jewett walked to Jordan, where he 
took pas.sage on a packet, and thus reached his des- 
tination via the Erie canal. This was in l.s;)4, when 
Buffalo had only 12,000 inhabitants. 

The young man, on presenting himself to his 
uncle, was set to work painting plows and cleaning 
castings. For one winter he attended Sila.s Kings- 
ley's High School, still remembered by old inhabit- 
ants. Afterwards he learned the molder's trade, and 
then acted as a clerk in his uncle's warehouse until 
Mr. Skinner was burned out. Mr. Jewett was now 
in his nineteenth year, but he had so diligently 
improved his time that he was invited to form a 
copartnership with Franklin Day and Francis H. 
Root, under the firm name of Day, Root & Co. 
They erected a small foundry on Mississipjii street, 
Buffalo, took off their coats, and went to work. In 
a few years, by withdrawals and reorganization, Mr. 
Jewett alone remained of the original partners. He 
continued the business by himself for several years, 
when Mr. Root again became a partner, the style of 
the new firm being Jewett & Root. This partner- 
shi]) continued for thirty-five years, and was alto- 
gether successfiil, recpiiring after a time a Chicago 
branch, and winning an enviable reputation in the 
mercantile world. I'pon the dissolution of the firm 
of Jewett iK: Root in I87<S, a new com|)any was 
formed, whic h ha.s since been known as Sherman S. 
Jewett (S: Co. Mr. Jewett has always been energetic 
in the personal management of his business, and his 
hand is still (July, IH<)(i) at the helm. His name is 
a household word everywhere. 

Mr. Jewett's success in his own line of business 
has naturally brought him into relations with the 
financial world. He has been one of the organizers 
of .several of Buffalo's strongest banks. He was 
l^resident of the Bank of Buffalo until 18112, and a 
dirtM tor of the Manufacturers' anil i'raders' Bank 
for over thirty years, and of the Marine Bank for 
over twenty years. He has been a director of 
the Columbia National Bank since its organization 
in 1S5I2. His re])Utation for financial ability and 



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strict intc{;rity rcrcivcil a notalilc recognition at 
the time of the great Chicago fire. That contlagra- 
tion ijroved disastrous to insurance coni|)anies all 
over the I'niteil States. In Buffalo three coni- 
lanies — the Western, the Hufliilo fity, and the 
Buffalo Fire and Marine — were ])laced in Unnk- 
ruptcy, and by the action of the C"hi- 
cago creditors Mr. Jewett was appointed 
a.ssignee of all. He applied hini.self to 
his great ta.sk with such /.eal that in three 
years he received his official discharge 
from the work, which he compleletl to 
the entire s;itisfaction of all jarties con 
cerned. 

In railroad circles Mr. Jewett has been 
a ijuiet but influential factor. He wa.s 
one of the earliest jtromoters of the Buf- 
falo, New York & Philadeljihia railway, 
a director for fourteen years, anil presi- 
dent from iHTti to IHHl. His manage- 
ment of this i>roperty was masterly in the 
highest degree, as he raised the road 
from ]iractical bankruptcy to i)rosperity, 
returning to the city of Buffalo its entire 
investment in the road — 87U<l,Ut(l). He 
has been a director of the New York 
Central railroad since 1KH4, and presi- 
dent of the Western Transit Co. since 

By virtue of the services of Cajitain 
Joseph Jewett in the War for Indejicnd- 
ence, Mr. Jewett is a member of the 
society of the Sons of the American 
Revolution. 

Religious and philanthro])ic institutions 
have ever found in Mr. Jewett a generous 
contributor and steadfast friend. His 
loyal and unselfish supjjort of the Young 
Men's A.ssociation made it a success. 
Linostentatious in his giving, he is prudent in the 
bestowal of assistance, always reijuiring that the 
object be a worthy one, and that the means con- 
tributed to it be wisely expended. Mr. Jewett finds 
relaxation from business cares in the rod and line, 
and l/aak Walton never had a more <levoted disciple. 

In politics Mr. Jewett is an original Republican. 
He was thrice elected to the common council, and 
acted as mayor pro Uniporf on several occasions. 
His services to the city at that time were exceed- 
ingly valuable, and the cotmcil adopted his plan 
of creating l)Oth the ()hio and Krie basins, the 
advocates of each of whi< h desired to destroy the 
other. In lS7(i he was nominated for congress 
without his knowledge, but ill health comiielled him 



to decline. In 1M,S(| he was a presidential elector, 
and heli)ed cast the vote of New York for ( larfield 
and .\rthur. 'I'he organization of the Buflalo ]jark 
system was |)lanned at his house, and he has l>een a 
member of the boar<l of jxirk i ommissioners from 
the beginning. 




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PERSONAL CUR O \ OLO GY— Sherman 
Skiniifr Jnctit ivas horn at Moravia, A'. Y., January 
17, 1818; 7vas eiiucalfJ in liistrici schools ami at 
Kin^^sky ' s Ilij^h School in Buffalo ; went to Buffalo in 
18S.'t, and hej^an loork in a foundry ; married Deborah 
Dusenherry of Buffalo .4ui,;us/ 14, 18Sf) ; was a mem- 
her of the common council, IS-i-'t, 1S.',0, ami 18iS ; 
has been park commissioner since the orf^aniziition of 
the board in 187 1, and president of the board since 
187!> ; has carried on the foum/ry business, alone or 
in partners/lip, since 18SG. 

ttCrmatl Z. l<OCniCr ileveloiK-d early in life 
the artistii talent liiat ha.s brought him success in his 
cho.sen calling of lithography. .Vs a youth, in the 



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MEN OF .XKIl' )(yx'K—\i'ESTER.\ SECT/OX 



public schools of Brooklyn, his native city, his apti- 
tude for drawing and designing resulted in his cap- 
turing all the prizes for which he competed ; and at 
the close of his school life, in I.STO, he naturally he- 
came an apprentice to the lithographic business in 
New York ( itv. where for several vears he devoted 




llh.KMA \ r. K(}IiR\ER 

himself to close study, and ac(iuired considerable- 
knowledge of the various branches of the art. The 
enormous development of the art of illustration, for 
both literary and commercial uses, gave ami)le scope 
to his talents, and he soon launched out for himself, 
establishing an office in New York city, and execut- 
ing work for the lithographic trade. In 1870 he ac- 
cepted a situation in Buffalo, and in 1878 assumed a 
position of importance in the establishment of which 
he is now the head, where his talent and industry 
rapidly pushed him to the front rank of practical 
lithograjjhers. On the death of the junior member 
of the firm, Mr. Koerner was admitted to a share 
in the business, and on the death of the founder of 
the house, he became senior member of the firm of 



Koerner & Hayes. Since thnt time this well- 
known house has grown to large proportions, repre- 
senting a capital of half a million dollars, and em- 
ploying over five hundred operatives. 

A number of important and \'ahinble inventions, 
used chiefiy in the various processes of lithography 
and printing, have been the fruit of Mr. 
fvoerner's active and versatile mind ; antl 
his services in this direction have received 
substantial recognition in both trade and 
scientific circles. 

\Vhile actively engaged in his engross- 
ing duties as the chief artist of his own 
establishment, Mr. Koerner' s artistic- 
tastes have found other outlets in great 
variety. He had a thorough training in 
music in early life, and is a fine performer 
upon both the piano and violin, as well 
as a singer of taste. His genius in music 
is creative, also, and he has been a pro- 
lific composer of both vocal and instru- 
mental music. He is well known in the 
musical circles of Buffalo as an enthusi- 
astic amateur and musical director, and 
as the leader for seven years of the Men- 
delssohn Club. 

Among his other occupations Mr. 
Ivoerner has frequently furnished to the 
illustrated press vivid and pungent car- 
toons upon local and general subjects. In 
this line of work he is peculiarly happy. 
He has strong opinions upon public af- 
lairs, and his pencil treatment of them 
is direct and striking. His manner of 
drawing shows decided individuality, 
and is instantly recognizable by those 
who have once .seen it. His cartooning 
has i)een done foii amore, but should he 
devote himself to it entirely, Mr. Koer- 
ner would easily attain high rank among satiric pic- 
ture teachers of the day. Almost as clever with his 
pen as with his pencil, Mr. Koerner contributes 
to the press jiointed articles upon current topics, 
which alwavs show a grasp of the subject, and treat 
it in an original and entertaining manner. His 
numerous brociiures and treatises on lithography, 
discussing the subject in both its practical and its ab- 
stract aspects, have been extensively co]iied, trans- 
lated, and printed in this country and abroad. 

As secretary and treasurer of the National l.ithog- 
rai)hers' Association for nearly a decade, he has ren- 
dered invaluable services in behalf of his profession. 
PERSONAL CHR ONOL OGY— Ifnman 
Theodore Koerner 7C'as horn at Brookhn NoTember 



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0, ISiiii : li'tis fdiicateil in tin- f>iif>/ic m/ioo/s o/ //hi/ 
ci/y ; iiurreJ /o Jhiffii/o in .l/i/r, lS7i!, /o /ake a f>osi- 
/ion as li/hoj^rapher in /he es/ahlislimen/ of Cosack 
^5^' Co.; married Geori^ia M. \\'hi/e of Huff a to Afay 
■il, 1S77 : has been a member of /he firm now s/yled 
Koerner cr' Hayes since Angus/, IHSl. 
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GCOriK t*. Xaill? 'J* ;i tnie son of western 
\f« \'ork. atul thoiijjh he has waiulereil at limes, 
there he has Ibiind his (greatest success in lite. His 
ijiiiet, iniassuminj,' manners conceal executive al)ilily 
iif a high order, and only to those who know him 
Itest is his full worth revealed. He was born in the 
old I amy homestead at l'",ast i'xlen in l-'.rie < ounty, 
where his grandfather, (leorge l.amy, .settled in l.S2!l, 
and where his father, Henry I.amy. ilieil in 1S!(."). 
,.\Ir. I,amy ac(|uired a good comnionschool education 
as a lbim<lation tor his battle with the 
world, and was for a time a student at the 
well-known Sjiringville Aiademy. His 
fir>it venture in Ixisiness life was made in 
1M(>2, when he went to Buffalo anil l)e- 
came a i lerk in a grocery. After remain- 
ing in this position about a year, he s;iw 
greater opportunities for advancement in 
another direction, and turned his atten- 
tion to the trans|)ortation industry on the 
(Ireat l«ikes. He remained in this busi- 
ness for eight years, becoming in that 
time the owner of one ves.sel and i)art 
owner of another. 

His ambition still unslaked, Mr. \mws 
resolved to go to that l'!l Dorado, where, 
according to Horace (Jreeley, fortune 
awaited every man who would grow u|) 
with the country. .Mr. I amy s|)enl nearly 
two years in the West, mostly on the 
plains, and had many ex|)eriences of an 
interesting character. He was present 
at the driving of the golden s|)ike that 
marked the completion of the L'nion Pa- 
cific railroad. Hut the West did not 
have sufficient attractions to kee]) this 
eastern-bred young man, and soon his 
face was set in the direction of more 
advanced civilization. 

After returning to Buffalo he received 
an apiwintment as a keejKrr in the Krie- 
county [K'nitentiary, manageil at that 
time by Charles K. I'elton, who has 
since become known as an exjiert jwnologist. Mr 
I^my at once proved himself the possessor of those 
ijualities that are so neces.sary in one who is res|)on- 
sible lor the care and con<luct of imprisoned men. 



When .\lr. I'elton was called to a larger fieli I, found 
in the suiK-rintendency of the House of Correction at 
Chicago, he induced his able assistant to accom|>any 
him. Mr. laniy was made chief keejier of that 
important institution, and for eight years he filled 
with entire success this trying and responsible 
position. 

.\ desire to return to Buffalo led Mr. I«nniy to 
accept the appointment of office deputy under Sheriff 
W. W. I »iw.son at'ter that official's election in iKSd. 
When Mr. lawson was succeedetl by Harry H. Ko<h, 
at the end of three years, Mr. l-imy was retained in 
his [Kjsition ; and when Frank T. (;ill)ert was elected 
sherilT in IMMt;, he recogni/etl Mr. Lnmy's fitness and 
ability by promoting him to be under sherilT. This 
position he I'llleil also during the term of Oliver \. 
[enkins. 




i,/:<>ki,i: II. I. AMY 



Mr. I.imy's long service in the sheriffs office had 
ijualified him in a marked degree for the head 
position there, and in 1X!)2 he received the Re- 
publican nomination. This was a Iwd year for that 



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party, however, and he went down with the rest 
of the ticket. Two years later he was once 
more his party's candidate, and was elected by 
a solid majority of 13,299 votes in the county of 
Erie — a certain indication of his ])ersonal and 
I)olitical jjoijularity. 




WILLIAM /■■. MAC KEY 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— George H. 
Lamy was born at East Eden, Erie county, N. Y. , 
March IB, 181^6 ; attended district schools and Spring- 
Ti//e Academy : went to Buffalo in 1862, and engaged 
in lake traffic, 1863-71 ; was chief keeper at the House 
of Correction, Chicago, 1871-79 ; married Lana C. 
Keller of North Boston, N. Y., April 16, 187 A; was 
appointed office deputy by the sheriff of Erie county in 
1880, and under sheriff in 1886 : has been sheriff of 
Erie county since January 1, 18f)'>. 
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XKHilltam jf. ^aCfteV?, Hke thousands of other 
bright vouug men lirought up in the smaller towns, 
was attracted by the manifold advantages of a great 
city, and in early manhood settled in Buffalo. In 



the twelve years that he has spent there he ha.s inter- 
ested himself actively in public affairs, and has become 
well known both in his profession and beyond it. 

Mr. Mackey is a native of western New York, 
and was born at Albion, Orleans county, late in the 
'50's. His early education was obtained in the 
private and public schools of his native 
village. In 1869 his parents moved to 
.Middlejjort, Niagara coimty, and he at- 
tended the public schools there for three 
years. Then he took a four years' course 
at I.ockport Union School, from which 
he graduated in l.STti. 

The legal jjrofession possessed decided 
attractions for the young man, and he 
began at once to prepare himself for it, 
entering the office of the well-known firni 
of Ellsworth, Potter & Brundage in Lock- 
port, as a student. When Judge Brun- 
dage withdrew from the firm Mr. Mackey 
continued his studies with him, and after 
admission to the bar, in 1871', he re- 
mained in the office as managing clerk. 
He continued to fill this responsible po- 
sition until ISHo, when Judge Brundage 
moved to Buffalo. For a short time Mr. 
Mackey practiced alone at Lockport ; but 
in 1884 he, too, yielded to the magnet- 
like attraction of a large city, and moved 
to Buffalo. 

It rei|uires no .small amount of courage 

and determination on the part of a young 

lawyer to make a place for himself in his 

|)rofession without forming an alliance 

with some older man whose reputation is 

already established ; and the difficulty 

is considerably increased if the young 

aspirant for fame and fortune be a stranger 

in the community. But Mr. Mackey was 

equal to the task before him, and for several years 

he worked alone, with ever increasing success. 

Finally, in 1890, he a.ssociated himself with John 

C. Draper, Jr., under the firm name of Mackey & 

Drajjer, and this partnership still continues. 

Mr. Mackey's greatest interest outside his pro- 
fession is in the domain of politics, so fascinating to 
many lawyers. He has taken an active interest in 
public affairs ever since he left school, and his party 
has gladly availed itself of his services. Before he 
left Lockport he was the Democratic candidate for 
district attorney of Niagara county, but was defeated 
with the rest of his ticket. Soon after his arrival 
in Buffalo he took an active part in the formation 
of the Cleveland Democracy. He was its ])resident 



\r/-:N or XKir yi)h-K — \i/.s-n:h\\ s/uv/nx 



in 1M«7, 1H«X, and 1.S!I2, ;imJ lias been cs|H;(;ially 
interested in the organization ever since. In IHHM 
he was his jjarty's candidate for the coveteil position 
of representative in congress, but was defeated by 
John M. Far(|iihar by a majority of al)Oiit ltiO((. 
In I)eceml)er, IHiM), Mr. Mackey's devotion to the 
Democratic caii.se was rewarded by an appointment 
as assistant city attorney, and he held the [josition 
for three years, until his election as assistant I'nited 
States attorney in ix!t.'!. This position he still 
holds. 

Mr. Mackey is not actively connected with the 
many social and fraternal organizations of the day, 
but fmds in jiolitics ail the relaxation he needs 
from the cares of his profession. He is a member 
of Huffalo Lodge, No. 21, 15. 1'. (). K. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Uilliam 
Flemin^^ Mackfy was honi at Alhioii, 
N. J '. , Jamiary .i, 1S-'>S : ;^riuiiiatfJ from 
Lockporl i 'nion ScIuhiI in JS7>> : iciis lui- 
mitted to Ihe l>ar in I87!> : married Ella 
Z. Rol'inion of Camhria, N. J'., Nor'fm- 
l>er 10, Ifll 7 : f>racti(t-d /aw at Lockport, 
N. )'. , 1S7!>-S^: was assistant city attor- 
ney of Buffalo, lS00-.'>3 : /las fiet-n assist- 
ant United States attorney since ISfl-f : lio > 
practiced law in Buffalo since 188Jf. 



peter IP. /IDiller has long been 
active in the l)U.-.ine.ss life of Buffalo. 
His entire career has been devoted to 
practi<al ol)jects, and he has done much 
to increase the material prosperity of his 
native city. With the exception of a few 
years' .schooling, he is a self-educated 
man. He l)egan early the task of mak 
ing his own way in the world. Having 
learned the machinist's traile in the Buf- 
falo Steam Kngine Works, he gradualetl 
from the shop to the steamboat. He l>e- 
came connected with the Western Trans- 
]>ortation Co., and tor a time was assistant 
engineer on one of their screw i)ro|x'l- 
lers. Subsetpiently he was promotetl and 
made chief engineer of the steamer " Free 
State." Finally the conjpany made him 
chief engineer of its entire tleet. As a 
practical engineer Mr. Miller rendered 
most efficient service to the Transporta- 
tion Co., and at the time of its dissolution 
in IHH4 he was holding the responsible position of su- 
|ierintendent, and was also a director in the comf»any. 

In the following year Mr. Miller entered a new 
field, in which he was also destined to achieve 



suctfss. He became secretary and treasurer and 
managing director of the Citizens' (Jas Co. of Buffalo. 
He had l)een connected with this ( om|>any as a 
director ever since its organization in December, 
iHT.'i. He has also extended his business relations 
in several quarters. He is a director in the .\meri( an 
l^xchange Bank and the BulTalo (leneral l-lleclric Co. 
His practical mind was early attracteil to the elec- 
trical field, and in addition to the directorates men- 
tioned he is president of the F. P. Little Klec trical 
Construction & Supply Co. He also retains his 
interest in lake commerce, and is a niember of the 
lake Carriers' As.sociation, as well as nwnager and 
|)art owner of the Red Star line of steamers of 
BulTalo. Mr. Miller was among the first engineers 
to recognize the value and feasibility of com|K)und 
engines, and he introduced the first one of the kind on 




rF.TI-.K I' Mll.l.liR 

the lakes in the case of the steamer "Sns(|uehanna." 

In politics Mr. Miller's affiliations are with the 

Republican jarty, and in lS(J!t-7(lhe represented the 

4th ward in the common council. In recent years 



.I/A".\' OF XFAV YCiRK—WESrEKX SKCT/OX 



increasing business cares have caused him to take a 
less active interest in public affairs so far as they 
relate to politics; but his convictions on ([uestions 
of the day are strong and well founded. Mr. Miller 
is naturally of a retiring disjjosition, content with 
doing his dutv as it a|)pears to him from dav to dav. 



jA.Mi-.s Moo.\i-:y 

He is a man of unflinching courage and of (piick 
resolve, and displayed these iiualities to great advan- 
tage at the memorable burning of the American block 
in January, 1865. Three firemen had lost their 
lives, and the conflagration threatened to spread and 
become general. At this juncture Mr. Miller con- 
cluded that heroic measures were needed, and with a 
(luantity of giant powder he entered and blew up tlit- 
structure, thus preventing the fire from spreading. 
Mr. Miller is a prominent I'ree Mason, and is a 
meml)er of a number of lodges in Buffalo. He is 
also a member of the Buffalo ("lub and of the 
Merchants' Exchange. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Peter /'ai,/ 
Miller 7i'(i.< htvn at BiilTnIo Noreiiilu-r ^0. 1SS7 ; tuas 



educated in the piil)lie schools of the city ; learned the 
machinist' s trade, and became engineer on lake 
steamers ; was superintendent of the IVestern Trans- 
portation Co. , and a director in the company, 1860-S4 : 
has lieen secretary, treasurer, and managing director of 
the Citizens Gas Co. since ISS'i. 




5amCS /IDOOney has made his 

name synonymous in Buffiilo with enter- 
|jrise, business energy, and public spirit. 
He ])osse.s.ses a rare combination of tact 
and push, and when once he has em- 
barked on an undertaking knows no such 
word as fail. He is of Celtic origin but 
of American training ; and unites in 
iiimself the suave but independent spirit 
of his race with the shrewd and progres- 
sive ( haracter of the native .\merican. 
-•\s a young man he was dependent 
largely on his own resources for success ; 
but he was ambitious, and laid a founda- 
tion of character and ability sufficienth' 
broad and stable to su]j])ort subsequent 
eminence and fortune. 

Mr. Mooney took up his residence in 
Buflalo about forty-six years ago, and 

1 received his education in the public 
schools of that city. His early ambition 
was to practice law, and he began a 
course of legal studv in the office of the 
late fharles 1). Norton. But Mr. Mooney 
.soon concluded that his talents lav in 
another field, and he ])ut aside his law 
books to engage in the real-estate busi- 
ness. I'ew men in Buffalo have been 
more hdly iilentified with the develoj)- 
ment of the cil\' than he. .\t a time 
when land im])rovement was hardly con- 
ceived, he showed his faith in the destiny 
of his adopted t:ity by expending time, money, and 
energy in reclaiming and laying out vast tracts of 
realty that are now within the limits of the city. 
Rare judgment and courage were required in such 
undertakings, but the reward has been commensurate 
with the outlay. 

Mr. Mooney has long been an active factor in 
public affairs. While not an office-seeker, he has 
been called upon frequently to fill pul)lic ])Ositions 
of trust and responsibility, and in cver\- case he has 
fulfilled the duties imposed upon him in a business- 
like manner. He was one of the original park com- 
missioners of Buffalo, and served in that capacity for 
fifteen years. i-'or five years he was one of the 
commissioners of the State Reservation at Niagara 



Ml \ or .\LW voiiK \\i:sii:k.\ sectios 



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Falls, and proved liim.icll «ai(hful of the piililic- 
interesls, and conscientious in tiie discharge of liis 
duties. In 1X91 he was appointed l>y Mayor Bishop 
tonimissioner of public works, and this jKisition he 
still holds. 

In recent years Mr. Moone\ has devoted consider- 
able attention to buildinj;, and in the j^rand structure 
known as the Mooney-Hrisbane building he has 
reareil a husting monument, cretlitable alike to him- 
self and to the city of Huflalo. lie has not confined 
his activities to mercantile lines. Causes apjieal- 
ing to his jatriotism and his sense of justice have 
ever found in him an ardent supporter and a cham- 
pion. He was one of the leading spirits in the Irish 
I^nd League of .\merica, and was its president from 
1«N1 to the time of its consolidation with the Irish 
.National U-ague. Loyalty to race and traditions 
has ever been a characteristic of men of 

Irish lineage, and this loyalty Mr. Moone\ 

pos.ses.ses in a high degree. For all that, ^ 
his stanch .\mericanism is none the less 
marked and active, and he is a fme 
example of the true meaning of the ap- 
lK-ll:ition lrish-.\merican — loyal to his i 
native land, but true to the land of his 
adojition. 

PKRSOXAI. CHKOXOI.OGY— 
James .\fooney was horn in Queen' s County, 
Ireland, ami came to Buffalo in ISiiO : was 
educalcil in the puhlic schools : married 
Ellen I.. McRoden of Rochester in 1S7-! ; 
has carried on a real-estate Imsiness at 
Buffalo since 1S60 : has been commis- 
sioner of puldic works of the city of Buffalo 
since 1S!H . 

Gbarlcs 3. IHortb » •-» I't repre 

senlati\c of ihc men wlio, from very 
humble beginnings and without help, 
work their way u|) to success and a place 
of honor in the community. His earl\ 
years were |);».s.sed in cin umstances thai 
gave little hint of what the future was to 
be. He was born on a farm far up in 
Clinton county, in which all of his great 
grandiwrents hail been |)ioneers. Per 
haps the best jwrt of his inheritance ion- 
sisted of the <|ualilies that he derived from 
a long line of I'uritan and (Quaker an- 
cestors, one of whom, (ieorge Soule, was 
a signer of the " Com])ait " in the cabin of the 
'• Mayflower." 

In the juinic of l.H.'>7 .Mr. .North's |>arents were 
recluced to distress ; and insufficient food, fuel, and 



( lothing made the winter one to l>e remembered. 
He was at that time thrown upon his own resources. 
His education was limited to what he had received 
in the dislric t school, and to attendance for two or 
three winters at a private school, where he built the 
fires, shoveled the snow, and swejit the schoolrooms, 
in |wymcnt for his tuition. However, he was an eager 
reatler : and by sitting u|) nights after his day's 
work was done, and studying the (vw schoolbooks at 
his command, he made up in |»art for the limitations 
ilescribed. 

Thus meagerly pre|)ared, the boy set out with a 
stout heart to work his way upward. He earned his 
living by laboring as a farm hand until the spring of 
l.H7-">, when he went to Huflalo, a total stranger, with 
a few hundred dollars, s;tved by the utmost denial, 
as his total capital. Having found emplo\incnt in 




( II IRI.I.S / SOh'TII 

an insurance office, he iiuickly mastered the details 
of the business, and secured the confidence of his 
employers to such an extent that within a short time 
he was jiromoted to the most rcsjxinsible |)Osition in 



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A/EX OF M-nv YORK— WESTERN SECTION 



the office. After that advancement was easy. In 
187!) he succeeded his former em])loyer in the busi- 
ness, and two years later formed the insurance jjart- 
nership of North (^ Vedder, which still continues. 
His history since then has been one of steadily in- 
creasing prosperity. 

The guiding purpose of Mr. .North's life has been, 
not to serve selfish ends, but to be of use to the 
world. He has never held nor sought office, hut 
has always endea\ored to do his duty in a quiet way 
as a citizen, in everything advancing the public 
uood. He wa-s an original member of the Buffalo 
Republican League, was one of six supporters to 
promise it the necessary financial backing when a 
permanent organization was planned, and served for 
two terms as vice president and chairman of the 
executive committee. He has been vice president 
of the Buffalo Association of Fire Underwriters, is a 
director of the Homestead Savings and Loan Asso- 
ciation, and a director of the Exchange Elevator Co. 
He is treasurer of the First Presbyterian Church 
Society, a director of the Oakfield Club, a coun- 
cilor of the Buffalo Historical Society, and a mem- 
ber of various other societies and institutions of a 
semi-i)ublic nature. He is especially interested in 
the study of colonial history and genealogy. He is a 
member of the Sons of the .American Revolution, and 
of the New England Historical Genealogical Society. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Charles Jack- 
son North was horn at Chazy, Clinton county, N. Y. , 
May IS, 18^7 ; was educated at the district school, 
with a few terms in a private school ; 7vorked as a 
farm hand, 1862-73 ; was a clerk in an insurance 
office in Buffalo, 1873-79 : married Dora C. Liriggs 
of Bufalo June 30, 1881 ; has carried on an insur- 
ance I'usiness since 1879, and since 1881 has been a 
member of the firm of North df Vedder. 



3ame3 ©SbOrUC iPUtUam has a lineage 
consistent with and ijrophetii of his own sjjlendid 
career. His earliest American ancestor was John 
Putnam, who came from England in 1634 and settled 
in Salem, Ma.ss. The family prospered from the 
beginning, soon acquiring large landed jiroperty in 
Salem, and taking an important jiart in the affairs of 
Massachusetts Bay. The branch of the family with 
which we are immediately concerned moved to Ver- 
mont in colonial times, and Mr. Putnam's father was 
born in Brattlelioro. He joined the westward ])ro- 
cession, and settled in Attica, N. Y., in 1X17. 
I'here James (). Putnam was born the next year, on 
Independence Day. 

After studying at Hamilton College in 1X84-3"), 
.Mr. Putnam entered, as a junior, the Yale class of 



183il, first absenting himself a year from college on 
account of ill health. He then entered upon the 
study of law in his father's office. Harvey Putnam 
was himself a distinguished man, serving for many 
years in the state senate and the national house of 
representatives ; and his son could hardly have found, 
especially in those days of inefficient law schools, a 
better guide along the difficult road to legal learning. 
With such advantages of tuition, Mr. Putnam easily 
obtained admission to the bar in 1842. He then 
moved to Buffalo and began practice at once. In 
the early years of his professional work he devoted a 
good deal of attention to railroad interests, which 
were already beginning to have an important place 
in the economic conditions of the country. In 1844 
he became secretary and treasurer, and in 1840 
attorney and counselor, of the Attica & Buffalo and 
Buffalo i.\: Rochester railroad companies. These 
|)ositions he retained until the consolidation of the 
( ompanies with the New York Central railroad. 

Comparativelv early in life Mr. Putnam became 
prominent in public affairs, and he had not lived 
long in Buffalo before his pre-eminent fitness for 
positions of trust was recognized. In 1851 he was 
a|)pointed postmaster of the city by President 
Fillmore, and held the office through the administra- 
tion. In 1853 he was elected state senator, and 
attained national fame by his speeches in the legisla- 
ture. His most notable work in that body was the 
authorship of a bill requiring the title of church real 
pro[)erty to be vested in trustees. A serious con- 
troversv had arisen between the bishops of the Roman 
church, who contended that the title to every church 
estate should be vested in the bishop of the diocese, 
and certain congregations, ]jarticularly that of St. 
Louis of Buflalo, which insisted upon independence 
in their temporalities. The issue thus rai.sed vitally 
affected the principles of religious freedom, and 
inten.se interest was taken throughout the country in 
the result of the controversy. It is not too much to 
.say that Mr. Putnam's speech of January 30, 1855, 
in the New York state senate led to the almost 
imanimous passage of his bill by the legislature. 
The speech was a model of resistless logic, and Wcis 
delivered with burning eloipience. It was read 
evervwhere, and the orator ac(piired fame in a night 
from one end of the country to the other. 

Mr. Putnam was in those days a conservative 
Whig. He went further, however, than that branch 
of his ]5arty in his opposition to slavery ; and some 
of his most powerful speeches concerned the "irre- 
pressible confiict." He was at one time identified 
with the .\merican party, and he was its candidate 
for the office of sec retarv of state in 1857. In 18(10 



.I/A".\" ('/•■ .\7:il- )V)iVA" n-F.siEK.y SECr/OA 



he was one of the two l.iiuoln |iresidciitial electors 
at large for New York state. 

Throughout the war Mr. I'litiiani was constil at 
Havre, l-'rani e, having Inien sent thither l)y President 
l.inroln in lK(il. Paris was a rallying-|)oint for 
loyal .Americans on the continent, and Mr. Putnam 
was frei|uently called to the cajiilal on 
national anniversaries and other jatri 
otic occasions. He wrote the atidress of 
.American citizens abroad to their govern- 
ment at the time of Lincoln's a.s.sassin 
ation. He <lelivered a notable oration 
in Paris on Washington's Birthtlay, 1H(;(I. 
.\Ir. Putnam was again sent abroad in 
the service of the government in IMKO, 
receiving an appointment as minister to 
Belgium from President Hayes. While 
filling this mission he was ap|>ointed 
by the United States government its 
delegate to the International Industrial 
Pro|)erty Congress held in Paris in IMHI. 

The foregoing sketch, of nece.ssil\ 
largely statistical, etches lightly the out- 
line of a career that deserves and needs 
for its proijcr portrayal a line engraving 
by a master hand. Beginning life when 
the century was young, .Mr. Putnam has 
l>assed through a youth of ambition and 
prefjaration. a manhood of struggle and 
achievement, an age of dignity and honor. 
Throughout his long career he has been 
an intellectual and a moral force ever 
strongly exerted in behalf of right. Kverv 
good tause has receivetl supjwrt from him, 
and has gathered added imiK.'tus from his 
contact with it. By |)en and voice and 
(lersonal effort, he has heljK'd forward the 
good work of the world. The graces 
and charm of his oratory linger in the 
memory of thousands. Kor years no public occasion 
of importance in Buffalo was complete without his 
presence and his ins])iring interi)retation of the 
meaning of the day. A volume of "Orations, 
Speeches, and Miscellanies," published in Buffalo 
in 1M.S((, shows the wide range of his symi>athy, 
the soundness of his judgment, the nobility of his 
ideals. 

/'/■:rsoxa r. chr onol o g ) —j.un,-^ a. - 

/lonif Putnam liuis bom at Atliia, N. >'., July 4y 
ISIS: stuiiieii at Hamilton and at Yale collff^fs ; was 
ailmitted to the bar in 18^2, and he^^an the practice of 
law in Buffalo : married Harriet Palmer of Buffalo 
January '), lS.'f^', and Kate /•'. \l'ri\;ht o/ Woodstock, 
I't., Afarch l.'i, IS'io ; Teas postmaster of Buffalo, 



lSi/1-.'i.i, and state senator, IS,'t4--')5 : teas United 
States consul at Havre, France, JSO'I-tJtJ, and United 
States minister to Belj^um, ISSO-Sl: lias been mem- 
ber of the council of the L 'niversit\ oj Buffalo since its 
orf;anizittion in ISJ^il, loas for many years its vice 
chancellor, and /> nolo it< chancellor. 




JA.MI.S DSHDKSI: IHTSAM 

]EC>\VarC^ TR. IRlCC "a-s bom in Indiana, but 
he is of New l-jigland descent on both sides, his 
great-grandfather having fought for the colonial cause 
in the Revolution. Combining the tireless energy 
of the West and the business sagaiily of the Kast, 
Mr. Rice has built up a commercial hou.se with a 
wide and splendid reputation for enterprise, fair deal- 
ing, completeness, and general res|ionsil)ilil\ . 

The son of a Methodist minister, .Mr. Rice re 
ceived an early home training that insured useful citi- 
zenship and an honorable business career. He at- 
tended the common schools of Warsaw, N. Y., and 
was graduated from the Batavia High School when 
only fifteen years of age. Having determined to 
pursue a mercantile career, he liecamc a clerk in a 



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retail hoot and shoe store in Matavia, and a year 
later moved to Rochester, to accei)t a position in a 
wholesale boot and shoe house in that city. He has 
been identified with the rubber boot and shoe business 
ever since he first began to work. He has made a 
specialty ot'this business, and no man is more familiar 




UnWARh R. KICE 

than he with every detail of the trade, and with the 
varying phases of the market. 

After this experience in retail and wholesale houses, 
Mr. Rice felt sufficient confidence to embark in the 
business for himself, and he became the senior mem 
ber of the firm of Rice & Al)ell, wholesale dealers in 
rubber boots and shoes at Dunkirk, N. Y. This 
firm conducted a satisfactory business for six years, 
when Mr. Rice made up his mind that Buffalo of 
fered facilities for ship|)ing and advantages for en- 
larging trade su]jerior to any other city between New 
\ork and Chicago. Accordingly he moved to Buf- 
falo in the sjiring of 1887, and established himself on 
Tear! street, until the reipiirements of an expanding 
business demanded larger ipiarters for the storage and 



display of goods. This increase in liusiness can be 
.safely attributed to Mr. Rice's energy, farsighted- 
ness, and organizing cai)acity. He possesses that 
quality, so valuable in a merchant, of imjjressing cus- 
tomers with his fairness and sincerity — an impres- 
sion in this case that does not belie the reality. 
-Mr. Rice's present busine.ss establishment 
comprises a six-story warehouse and a 
block .seven stories high, perfect in its 
arrangements and adapted for the con- 
venient handling of rubber boots and 
shoes, to which he confines his business 
exchisixely. He has a branch house at 
Detroit, and another at Duluth. This 
extensive l)usine.ss is carried on bv Mr. 
Rice alone. 

Thoiigh an exceedinglv bus\ man, Mr. 
Rice is mindfid of the fact that in a coun- 
try like ours where political responsibility- 
rests upon the people, everv citizen should 
make public affairs part of his private 
concern. He is one of the men of inde- 
pendent action, who, in the last dozen 
years, rising above party considerations, 
have endeavored to rescue the jjolitics of 
our municipalities from the control of 
the spoilsmen. A reform has undoubt- 
edly been effected in American cities 
within the past decade, and this has been 
due to the activity of business men in 
local affairs. Mr. Rice has been ])romi- 
nent among this class in Buffalo. He 
was appointed civil-service commissioner 
by Mayor P)ishop, and served for nearly 
fi)ur years, until pressure of business com- 
pelled him to resign. But he continues 
his interest in this reform as a member of 
the executive committee of the ('i\il Ser- 
vice Reform .Association. lo him also 
is due in large part the organization of the (Jood 
(;o\ernment Club of Buffalo, which has done so 
much in securing needed reforms. At present he is 
a member of the central council of this club, repre- 
senting the ■24th ward of the city. 

.Mr. Rice devotes considerable attention to |ihilan 
thropic movements and organizations that commend 
themselves to his judgment. He is a member of the 
council of the Charity Organization Sociut) of \\\\\ 
falo, a trustee of the Homeopathic Hospital in that 
city, and [iresident of the Klmwood School, one of 
the best private institutions in the state. That his 
mental horizon is not narrow is shown b}- his mem- 
bershi]! in the Liberal, Thursday, Saturn, and buffalo 
clubs, as well as in the Buffalo Society of Artists and 



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ihc Hiinalo Historical Society. In every relation 
of lift, commercial, |ioliti<al, and social, Mr. ki<e 
is noted for earnestness, thoronnhness, and np 
rightness. 

PKRSOXAL CHROXOIOGY—KdwanlRus- 
sfll Rice was horn at Xas/iri/Zr, /ii,/., June Jl, I SMI : 
7i>iis educated in common schoo/s, and i^radiiated from 
the BataTia Ilii^h School : loas a clerk in hoot and 
ihoe houses in Halaria and Rochester, IS71-SI: 
conducted </ ivholesale hoot ami <hoc house in Dun- 
kirk, X. v., ISSt-Sl : married Mary Langley J-'ulla 
gar of Dunkirk Octoher IS, 1884 : has conducted a 
wholesale ruhher ho<>l anil shoe house in Buffalo since 
ISS7. 

lUllliaiU IRlCbarDaOn lias lived a long and 
liusy life, iinsidlicd l>y a single (iiie-stionalile trans- 
a(tion. .Ml through his career he has 
adhered steadfastly to the honest princi 
|>le of avoiding debt, and never incur- 
ring obligations that he wa.s not sure of 
being able to meet at maturity. Pes- 
simists are fond of ilisjuiraging the prac- 
tical utility of the Ten Commandments 
in commerce and in politics ; but Mr. 
Richardson's life is a refutation of this 
demoralizing doctrine. He has engaged 
in business and in public affairs, and has 
never felt it necessary, in order to achieve 
.success, to depart from the jathway of 
integrity and honor. 

.Mr. Richardson comes of .New Eng- 
land stotk. He was born in the old 
town of .\ttleboro, -Mass., more than 
seventy-five years ago. Since the year of 
his birth the country has |>a.ssed through 
nineteen presidential camj^igns, and as 
many tlifferent Presidents have occupied 
the White House at Washington. Dur- 
ing the |)eriod covereii by his life the 
Inited States has witnes.seil its most mar- 
velous growth in |)opulation. industry, 
and wealth. .Mr. Richardson's ])arents 
moved from .Mas.sa( husetts to Pennsyl- 
vania when he was an infant. There 
were no great railroads then, and the 
family traveled overland in a w.-igon. 
.\fter a short residence in the Keystone 
Sl;ite they moved to De Witt, N. Y., 
where Mr. Richardson's boyhood was 
l)a.ssed on a Airm. The Krie canal, a mighty enter- 
prise of engineering skill for tho.se days, was then 
in process of construction, and for several years 
Mr. Richardson was employeil by one of the state 



iontractor>i charged with rcjiairing the canal t>etwcen 
Syracuse and Chitlenango. i.ater he hel|ied build 
the reservoir covering about (i(K) acres of land near 
I'azenovia, as a sii|)ply liasin for the canal. This 
employment acijuainted him with river and harbor 
work, and he next became engaged in dredging 
o|>erations at Detroit. 

Hitherto .Mr. Richardson had been an employee. 
He now became a contractor, and had charge of the 
(onstruition of a large piei e of embankment for the 
(ireat Western railroad. He also entered the dreilg- 
ing business, and carried on the first work of this 
kind ever done on the St. Clair Flats in the Detroit 
river. He also dredged out the < hannel at Cireen Hay, 
Wis. The volume of business on the Krie lanal hail 
grown to such proportions by the year \Xit4 that an 
enlargement was renderecl neces.sary l)Ctween Tona- 




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wanda and Hlack Rock, and Mr. Richard.son w.is 
employed by the slate to do this work. He had now 
an established reputation as a skillful, conscientious 
roniracior, and he se< ured manv lommissions from 



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the United States government for the improvement ot 
harbors on the Clreat Lakes. Steadfast application 
to his chosen pursuit brought him a competence, so 
that he was able to retire from active affairs in 1890. 
Mr. Richardson has not only been an upright 
business man, but he has made a fine record for 




AUGUSTUS F. SCHHU 

devotion to civic duties, lie has been an efficient 
member of the board of supervisors of Buffalo, and 
for three years he was a member of the common 
council. He is esteemed in financial circles for his 
.sound judgment and conservative views, and holds 
directorates in the Peo])le's Bank and in the Niagara 
Hank. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— William 
Richardson was born at Altleboro, Mass., January 5, 
1820 ; was educated in common schools at De Witt, 
N. Y.: married Ann O' Day of Buffalo in Novetn- 
ber, 1852 ; engat^ed in canal repairing; and in dredg- 
ing, 1850-90 ; loas a member of the common council 
of Buffalo, 1881,-8" : has lived in Buffalo since 
1850. 



HugUStUS if. ScbeU lomes of an old and 
res])ected liulTalo family, founded more than half a 
century ago by Solomon Scheu. The latter arrived 
in Buffalo in 1844, having come to this country from 
(lermany five years earlier, and soon attained promi- 
nence in both business and political affairs. He was 
elected mayor, and held other offices of 
trust and importance, and made his name 
known not only in municipal but also in 
state politics. The traditions of broad- 
mindedness and integrity left by Solo- 
mon Scheu have been maintained by his 
son, Augustus F. Scheu. 

Born in Buffalo a little more than forty 
years ago, Mr. Scheu's whole life has 
been associated with the city. He is 
one of the young men wiio have made 
the "new Buffalo" what it is. The 
salient facts of his life can be quickly 
related. He was educated in the city 
schools and at the Buffalo Normal School. 
L'pon his graduation he immediately en- 
tered the malting business established by 
his father in 1860. Since the death of 
the latter in 1888, Mr. Scheu has con- 
tinued the management of the business 
lor the benefit of the estate. 

The name of Scheu has stood high in 
the annals of the Democratic party in 
Fiuffalo for many years. Mr. Scheu came 
naturally by his interest in jiolitics, and 
he has been prominent in the councils of 
the local Democracy. He has been a 
counselor rather than a seeker for office. 
He received the Democratic nomination 
for sheriff of Erie county in 1885, but 
that is the only time he has a|j]jeared 
before the public as a candidate. He 
also served for a titne as ]}olice commis- 
sioner. He has represented the 33d congressional 
district on the Democratic state committee for several 
years — a field in which he lias shown exiellent ca|)ac- 
ity for organization. 

The most striking characteristics of Mr. Scheu as 
a man are his liberality of view, his integrity, and 
his dis])Osition to believe in the good intentions and 
honesty of others. These are the qualities by which 
he is known among his fellow-citizens. He has given 
many proofs of disinterested devotion to public enter- 
prises aimed at promoting the well-being and happi- 
ness of his native city. For several years he ser\ed 
as one of the i)ark commissioners. He has also de- 
voted much time and energy to the 15uffalo grade- 
crossing commission, of which he is now a member. 



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As might l)c siipijosed from this sketch of his |)er- 
sonal charaiteristics, Mr. Scheu is a man of wide at- 
>|tiaintance and many friends. He is of a very social 
nature, and is affiliated with many societies. He is 
a tnistee of the t'harity Organization Soi iety and of 
the ICxempt i'iremen's .Xssociation of Uiiflalo. He is 
an active member of the Ktiffalo Club, and belongs 
to the Orpheus and I, iedertafel singing societies. He 
isalsoa inemi)er of Omega Lodge, .\'o. 'Joll, I. (). O. V . 
His religious afhliations are with the derman rnite<i 
Evangelical St. Paul's Church of Buffalo. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL OGV— Aii^iistin E. 
Si/ifu icas born at Buffalo Xin'finber 7, 1S,')'> .• icas 
eduialeJ in thf fiiiHic .tchools anj at the Buffa/o Xor- 
inal School, from lohich he };raJiiateit in lS7i : inarrieil 
Anna Erances Kraft of Buffalo January S, 1870; 7i'a< 
the Democratic candiilate for sheriff of Erie county in 
IS'S.') : entered the malting hiisiness with 
his father in IS! J, and has managed the 
business since 188S. 

a. IP. SOUtbWlCk has never been 
.satisfied with the present. Looking into 
the future, and seeing there something 
worth striving for, he has pushed for- 
ward, detennined to attain his end. It 
is the tlis.satisfied men, as distinguished 
from the tiiscontented, who make their 
mark in the world, and contribute some- 
thing to its progress. 

Dr. Southwick was born in .Vshtabula. 
< >hio, and sjjent his youth there, aopiir 
ing a high-school education. Soon after 
attaining his majority, however, he left 
his native place for the greater advan- 
tages apparently oflered by IJtiflalo. This 
was in 1X4!(, in the early days of steam 
boating on the (Jreat Lakes, when there 
were (t:\\ railroads to compete for business 
to the West. Buffalo was then preemi- 
nently a < ommercial i ity, the terminus 
for all lake traffic, and naturally an attract- 
ive place for an ambitious and pushing 
young man who had alreatly learned 
something of the duties and responsibili 
ties of a steamboat engineer. For sixteen 
years Dr. Southwick devoted himself to 
the engineer's vocation, finally reaching 
the important position of chief engineer 
of the Western Transit L'o. 

Kven then his ambition was not .satisfied. He 
had reached the toj) of his calling, but he felt that 
there were Itetter things in other directions. .Vfter 
some hesitation he look up the sttidv of denlistrv. 



and in IHlJ'J he decidetl that it was time for him to 
make a name for him.self in his chosen profession. 
.\ successful record of over thirty years, broken only 
by the lapse of a twelvemonth, has made him one of 
the best-known members of the profession in the 
state. He wiis active in the organization ol the 
State Dental Society in l^l(^^t, and was one of the 
first candidates for a diploma to apjiear l>efore the 
society's board of censors. In 1H77 Dr. Southwiik 
was elei-ted to that board, and became soon after- 
ward its president. He retained the presidency tmtil 
.Vugust 1, IMil,"), when the law was changed, creat- 
ing a board of state commissioners, and Dr. South- 
wick was made president of this boaril. When the 
dejxirtment of dentistry of the University of Buffalo 
was organized. Dr. Southwi<k, by reason of his long 
ex|)erience anil undoubted ability, was chosen to the 




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important |K)sition of clinical profes.sor of o|ierativc 
technics. He has written fre<nient |»a])ers on pro- 
fessional subjects, and his views are always received 
with res|KTt by his brethren. 



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Though dentistry has been Dr. Southwick's pro- 
fession, it has by no means lieen his only occuijation. 
He is actively interested in all that concerns his 
fellow-men. He is a deep thinker, and is positive 
in his ojiinions. To T)r. Southwick more than 
to any other man, ])robabl\-, is due the law that 




J.l.\l/:s H. STAIIORI) 

substituted electricity for the rope in cases of cajiital 
punishment in the state of New York. Becoming 
convinced that hanging is brutal, he pronndgated 
his views as widely as possible, and the agitation 
tra<;eable directly to him resulted in the creation 
of a state commission "to investigate and report 
upon the most humane and practical method of car- 
rying into effect the sentence of death in capital 
ca.ses. " The members of this commission were 
Ivlbridge T. (ierry, Alfred I'. Southwick, and Mat- 
thew Hale. They reported in favor of killing by 
means of the electric current, and in the face of the 
greatest ojjposition their recommendations were 
adopted. Dr. Southwick in this wav won the sohri- 
(jiiet oi " Old Electricil) ." 



Like all good citizens. Dr. Southwick takes a dee]) 
interest in public (juestions, but his active jjarticipa- 
tion in politics has been confined to two occasions 
when his party forced nominations upon him, once 
for alderman and once for councilman. He is of a 
genial dis]josilion, and is a member of the Buffalo 
Club and of other social organizations. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— 
Alfred I^ortfi- Southn'ick was horn at Ash- 
tahiila, O. , May IS', 1826 ; rms educated 
ill the piddic schools : cnga_i;ed in the steani- 
I'oat hiisiness, ISJ^J^S-i, becoming chief 
engineer of the Western Transit Co. at 
Buffalo in 1S55 ; married Mary M. Flinn 
of Buff'alo May J(i, 183-1 : has practiced 
dentistry in Buffalo since 1862. 



3ames 36. Stafford has had a 

career that is full of inspiration to young 
men with a noble ambition to succeed. 
He was compelled to leave school when 
but eight years of age, began to earn his 
living a few years later as an errand boy, 
and advanced step by step until to-day he 
stands in the front rank of Buffalo's busi- 
ness men. Yet he is only about forty- 
three years of age. 

Hard work, undaunted perseverance, 
studious habits, quick adajjtability, and 
uncompromising integrity, may be set 
down as the mainsprings of Mr. Stafford's 
success. As a boy he won the confi- 
dence of substantial men with whom he 
came in contact ; and as a man he made 
ra])id headway when he started in busi- 
ness for himself. When other liovs 
|)layed after work he ajjplied himself to 
books, and in time made up for the lack 
of early education. In maturer years he 
has been a voracious reader ; and when he took 
the high place in the community that his industr\ 
and ])ubli( spirit had earned, he was mentally fitted 
to adorn it. "Knowledge," he has been hearil 
to .say, " is easily carried, and it is a man's best 
|)Ossession.' ' 

Mr. Stafford was born of Scotch -Irish parentage, 
in Dublin, Irelantl. On the death of his mother, 
when he was eight years of age, he was brought to 
the United States by his father, and soon afterward 
found employment in the store of S. N. Callender, 
a Buffalo grocer. I'lie boy rapidly mastered busi- 
ness methods, and was well equi])ped at his 
majority for a bu>iness career. To John 11. 
Jones, noH presidt'nl of the Buffalo fish (ci., Mr. 



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SuifTonl is indelitcd lor ciu-oiirajjcinfiu and assist 
ancf in takinj^ his first important step in conimcr- 
cial lift". The firm of Jones, StalTorfl iS: Co. w;is 
formetl, consisting of Messrs. Jones, Stafford, and 
C. A. I'revalee. and they originatetl the siil)sei|iiently 
famous Fulton Market. Some years later .Mr. Staf- 
ford became .sole proprietor of this fine establish- 
ment. .M'terwards his brother, Richanl H. Stafford, 
was taken into the business, the firm bcconiinj; 
James H. Stafford i^v: Hro. i'he lirothers conducted 
the Kulton Market until 1X'.I2, when they sold out 
to Faxon. Williams iV Faxon. In the meantime 
Mr. StalTord had erecteil a substantial four-story 
bri<k building at the corner of I'earl and Church 
streets, whi< h was the home of the I'ulton .Market 
for many years. 

.Mr. Stafford retired from the grocery business to 
become president of the Security Invest- 
ment Co. of HiilTalo. whii h was formed 
by a number of leading citizens for 
the pur|)ose of transacting real-estate 
business on a large scale. Mr. Staf- 
ford's entire time is devoted to the 
management nf the com|)any's extensive 
alTairs. 

There is another side to Mr. Stafford's 
life besides the one most open to public 
gaze. His private life is singularly ha|>p\ . 
He is devoted to his wife and chil 
dren, and spends almost all his leisure 
hours with them. He has never been 
induced to become a clubman. He is. 
however, a member of the Masonic tra 
ternity. He and his family are deeply 
interested in church affairs, attending the 
.Methodist < hurch. I'he many charitable 
and religious movements of Buffalo have 
found in .Mr. .Stafford an ardent and a 
generous siijiporter. He has never as- 
pired to political office, but takes an 
active interest in munici])al affairs. He 
has had a leading part in public move- 
ments for the benefit of the community 
in which he lives, and well deserves hi^ 
reputation as an ideal citizen. 

PEJiSOXAL CIIROXOI. OGY— 
Janifs Bluett Stafford wai t>oni at Diih- 
/ill, Ireland, September JS, 18ii-i : came 
to the United States in childhood, and 
settled in Buffalo in IStl.i : married Hen- 
rietta Ella Hollou'ay of Buffalo June hi, 1S7S . 
carried on a t^roceiy business, 7<>ith larious partners. 
IS7Jf-!>.^ ; has been president of the Security liiTest 
ment Co. of Buffalo since ISO J. 



UvlCbiU^ 13. 3taftOrC> has an established rep 
Illation in mercantile and financial circles in the city 
of Buffalo. His commcri ial training has l>een long 
and thorough, and he is familiar e<|ually with the 
practical ami the theoretical sides of business ojiera- 
tions. .Mr. Stafford was born and reared in Dublin, 
Ireland, a city famed for the high standing and 
ability of its inenantile cla.ss. .\fter obtaining a 
sound elementary education in the s< hools of his 
native < ity, he came to the I'nitetl Stales the year 
the Civil War broke out. He took up his residence . 
in Buffalo the .same year, an«l enteretl the employ of 
S. X. Callender, then the leading grocer of the city. 
He remained with .Mr. Callender five years, when 
he secured a more attractive |>osition w^ith another 
house engaged in the same line of business. In this 
secon<l position he also remained five vears. 




mi IIAKIi II STAIIORIt 



Mr. Stafford was now a young man of twentv 
three, and had already won a reputation forca|»acit\ , 
integritv, and faithfulness iimler two siicce.vsive em 
ployeni. .Meanwhile his brother. James B. Stafford, 



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had met with such success that he decided to embark 
in business on his own account, and he invited his 
lirother Richard to take charge of the financial part 
of Fulton Market. After working for his brother 
six years, Richard received, one Christmas morning, 
a substantial recognition of the value of his services 




WILLIAM TinUiSTOXE 

in the form of a ])resent of a third interest in his 
brother's business. Under the management of the 
Stafford brothers, Fulton Market throve, and its 
owners ])rospered. Mr. Stafford continued this 
business association witli his brother till 1892, when 
they sold out to the house of Faxon, \\'iliianis & 
Faxon. 

Mr. Stafford now directed his attention to a new 
field, in which .success has crowned his efforts. In 
company with his brother, he helped to organize the 
Security Investment ("o. of Piuffalo, f)f whi<h he lias 
since been treasurer. 

In his relations with business men, Mr. Stafford is 
noted for his frank dealing and obliging disposition. 
In church and Masonic work, he is unusually active 



for a man so engrossed with business cares, and no 
good movement in Buffalo fails to receive his en- 
couragement and support. In Ma,sonic circles he 
has attained high honors, being a Knight Templar 
in Lake Erie Commandery, No. 20, a 32d degree 
member of the order of Ancient Accepted Scottish 
Rite Masons, and a Noble of the Mystic 
Shrine. Mr. Stafford is president of the 
board of trustees of the Richmond Ave- 
nue Methodist Episcopal Church, and in 
that position has done notable service in 
developing the association from a strug- 
gling mission to a prosperous anil inflii 
ential church. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— 
Richard H. Stafford rcas born at Dii/>li?i, 
Ire/and, August 10, 18^8 ; ztuu educated 
in the common schools of Dub/in ; came to 
the United States and settled in Btiffalo 
in 1801 : was a clerk in grocery houses, 
ISO 1-7 J ; 7oas associated with his brother 
in the management of Fulton Market, 
1873-92 ; married Ella S. Gatchell of 
Medina, N. V. , October 29, 1877 : has 
been treasurer of the Security Investment 
Co. of Buffalo since 1892. 



Milliam ^burstone was twenty- 
eight years old when he came to this 
country, a sturdy, hearty Englishman, 
ready to grapple with whatever fate his 
adopted land might have in store for 
him. He was not the sort of immi- 
grant for whom Uncle Sam has only a 
half-hearted welcome — immigrants who 
claim that the world owes them a living, 
but who do nothing toward collecting 
the debt. He had served a seven years' 
apprenticeship as printer to the Honor- 
able Stationers' Company of London, hat! been a 
reporter for several London newspapers, and had 
become ])roprietor of the Horticultural /ournal. 

With such an ec|uipment Mr. Thurstone did not 
need to wait long for employment. The first money 
he earned in Huffalo was by setting type on the city 
directory, and he was soon after engaged as com- 
positor by the Commercial Advertiser, and later 
by the R.xprcss. Printers in those days were not 
paid for their intervals of waiting for "copy," 
and after setting the single column of local items 
there was often a long, profitless delay before work 
could begin on the telegraphic dispatches. '\\\v 
time from ten or eleven o'clock at night until two 
or three in the morning was frequently spent in 



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watchinj; for the possible arrival from New York of 
ICnglish Tiews, which came l>y steamer, and was then 
transmitted by wire. When a notification was re- 
ceived that a steamer had l>een sighted, its arrival 
and the news it carried were waited for. .\Ir. 'I'hiir- 
stone was too ambitions to yield |);tssively to such 
enforced idleness, and he seized the opportunity to 
do the work of a reporter in these intervals. He 
was connected in this twofold way with the Express, 
the Coitrifr, and the Commercial Aihrrtiser : and 
finally became commer< iai editor of the Courier, 
retaining this ])Osition twenty-two years. His jiluck 
and iiulustry had now advanced him from a position 
where, according to the custom of those days, wages 
were [xiid two thirds in store produce and the rest 
in current and uncurrent money (the latter some- 
limes suffering two or three [ler cent discount) to 
one of inde])endence. 

When Mr. i'hurstone was appointed 
.secretary of the lioartl of Trade thirty- 
three years ago, the institution was too 
jjoor to j«y more than a dollar a day for 
his services. His fidelity and devotion 
have done much to make that body the 
power it is to-day, and he is still its 
trusteil .secretary. He has also been sec- 
retary of the Merchants' Exchange for 
fourteen years. 

The L'nited St;ites bureau of statistics 
is indebted to Mr. I'hurstone for much 
thorough and jiainstaking work, includ- 
ing many report.s on the commerce of the 
(ireat Uikesand western New York, and 
one on the railroad and canal systems of 
the state of New York and the Dominion 
of Canada, published in the l'nited States 
public documents. For over thirty years 
he has furnished statistical matter for 
boards of trade, commercial conventions, 
newspapers, and |)am|)hlets, and rank.-. 
a.s an expert in this line. He has also 
contribiiteil extensively to the editorial 
columns of New \'(>rk and Chicago maga- 
zines. 

Politics has claimed a large share of 
his attention, ;us would be e\|>ected from 
.so ])iiblic-s|)irited a citizen. Twice nomi 
nated for alderman in the old (Ith wanl, 
he failed of election because the district 
was so strongly Republican : but it is 
noteworthy that his election as supervisor w.is the 
only Democratic victory ever achieved in that ward. 

Ixjyal to the church of his native land, Mr. 'Thur- 
stone has been identified in HutTalo with the Church 



of the .Ascension and St. John's, .serving in the 
former as vestryman and treasurer, and in the latter 
;is vestryman and warden. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Uilliiim Thiir- 
stone 7oas horn at London, Eni^lanil, Fel<riiar\ 41, 
ISJI) : 7i'as eiliicateii in a private seftool ; was appren- 
ticeii as printer, ISJfO-Jfl : marrieii Mary Anne Dil- 
lon of Hereford, England, June 1, IS^S .• came to 
the United States in 18'i4, and settled in Buffalo in 
ISoo ; occupied various positions there on the ^'Ex- 
press," "Courier," and "Commercial Advertiser," 
IS'ioS'i : lias heen secretary of the Board of Trade 
since ISOS, and of the Merchants' Exchange since 
1882. 

3amO£i lU. CllllUObai?t i^ widely known in 
the important sphere of ( ommcrcial telegniphv, and 




flUKS W TII.I.ISCHASr 



he ha.s rendered \aluable service to the public bv his 
efficient management of one of the largest telegraph 
offices in the country — that of the Western Union 
compiuiy at HufTalo. 



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Mr. Tillinghast is a native of the Empire State, 
and knows the lay of the land within all its borders 
as perfectly as others know their immediate locality. 
His business has maile topography one of his strong 
points. Receiving his early education at private 
and public schools in Rome, N. Y., he completed 
his academic training at the Fort Edward C.'oUegiate 
Institute. He began his commercial life at Toronto, 
a few years before the Civil War, as a clerk for 
his father in the office of the Northern Railway 
of Canada. With characteristic enterprise and in- 
dustry he took up the study of telegraphy as an 
outside diversion, having no idea at the time that 
this pursuit would become the work of his life. In 
1861, however, he went to Pittsburg, and entered 
the service of the Western Union Telegraph Co. as 
an operator. While engaged in that capacity his 
time was largely taken up with the handling of cipher 
dispatches passing between the western armies of the 
Union and the war department at Washington. His 
duties became so exacting and severe that his health 
failed, and by the advice of his jihysicians he aban- 
doned active telegrajjhic work in I860. The next 
year he moved to Madison, Ind., as manager of the 
telegraph office there. Less arduous duties in a 
quieter .scene brought about a gradual restoration 
of health, and Mr. Tillinghast found himself strong 
enough in the spring of 1865 to become assistant 
manager of the Western Union office at Buffalo. 
During a part of that year he was located at Erie, 
Penn., as manager of the Western Union office there, 
but he returned to Buffalo in the fall. Eive years 
later he was placed at the head of the office, and has 
occupied that position continuously since. 

In 1868 the general agent of the New York Asso- 
ciated Press formed a rival organization, and with 
several agents of the old a-ssocnation left it without 
notice. .Mr. Tillinghast was at once appointed agent 
of the Associated Press at Buffalo, invested with full 
charge of the service west and south of that point, 
and clothed with supreme authority. So complete 
was the rout of the new association that it (|uickly 
abandoned the field, and Mr. iillinghast resumed 
his position with the Western Union. For the 
services then performed for the Associated Press he 
received a vote of thanks from the executive com- 
mittee, and a personal letter from every member 
of the committee praising his work in the highest 
terms. This period is the only break in his long 
connection with the Western Union since he entered 
the service in Pittsburg in 1861. 

Mr. Tillinghast is much attached to Buffalo, and 
has more than once declined offers of promotion 
involving residence elsewhere. He has the respect 



of his business associates and the confidence of the 
community, both in large measure. He is the only 
son of James Tillinghast, for many years a famous 
official of the Central-Hudson railroad. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY — James JV. 
TiUinghast was born at Brmvnville, N. ¥., Nm'etn- 
ber ,'), ISIfJ). : 7oas educated at Rome Academy and 
Fort Edward Collegiate Lnstittite ; commenced busi- 
ness as clerk in the office of the Northern Railway 
of Canada at Toronto, in 1858 ; entered the service 
of the IVestern Union Telegraph Co. at Pittsburg, 
Penn., in 1861 : married Sara A. Dannals of Pitts- 
burg Octobers, 1863, and Airs. Anna Kelley of Lock- 
port, N. Y. , February 1, 1868 ; has been manager 
of the IVestern Union telegraph office at Buffalo since 
1870. 



6reeulcaf S. Dan (5or&er, though not yet 

beyond middle life, has made himself an important 
factor in puldic affairs. His career is an inspiring 
example to every American youth, and illustrates 
anew the truth of the time-worn proverb, "Where 
there's a will there's a way." He was thrown upon 
his own resources in early boyhood, and his surround- 
ings were such as to develop the best (|ualities in an 
ambitious young man. To be born in an intelligent 
community, having intercourse through library, 
school, and press with the current events of the 
world, is no mean inheritance. The small town and 
the village rival the great cities in their contribution 
to the ranks of the professions, and of the leading 
business men of the country. The boy born in the 
city is surfeited with opportunities, and too often 
does not sufficiently appreciate them : but the country 
boy makes the best of the few at his command. 

Mr. Van Gorder was educated in the common 
schools of Geneseo, and received further training in 
•Vngelica Academy and the academic department of 
.\lfred University. He supported himself, mean- 
while, by farm work, teaching, and any other resource 
that presented it.self He is not a graduate of any 
school exce])t, as he himself ]nits it, the "school of 
experience." Having secured all the preliminary 
education within his means, Mr. Van Gorder began 
the study of law in the office of Sanford & Bowen of 
.Vngelica, one of the leading firms in .Allegany 
county. He was admitted to the liar at a term of 
the Supreme C'ourt held in Buffalo, and began the 
l)ractice of his profession at Pike, Wyoming county. 
By industry, energy, and perseverance, he has 
attained high rank among the members of the bar in 
his part of the state. 

Political advancement, as well as jirofessional suc- 
cess, has marked Mr. Van ('.order's career. He is a 



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Re]iiil)lican in politics, and has Wen a tlclcgatc to 
many conventions of his jjarty. He was clei ted 
town clerk of I'ike, and held the position four years. 
This was his entrance into the arena of |}olitical 
activity, in which he was destined to become ,i 
prominent actor. .Vfter holilinj^ the offii o of super 
visor of I'ike for five years, he was elected 
a meml)er of the state a.s.seml)ly from the 
county of Wyoming for IHKX and lK«il. 
While in the a.ssemlily he served as a 
member of the imjiortant judiciary com- 
mittee. Representing Wyoming county, 
the center of the western New York salt 
fields, he started a movement that resulted 
in the amendment of the constitution 
of the slate, providing for the sale of 
the state ".salt reservation " at Syracuse, 
and thus removing the state as a com- 
[letitor against the |irivate cai)ital em- 
ployed in the salt industr\ in western .New 
York. The strong fight made by .\lr. 
N'an (lorder on this ipiestion made him a 
prominent figure in what was then the 
.■>(tth senatorial district, composed of Liv- 
ingston, Niagara, Cenesee, and Wyoming 
counties. In the fall of IHHJI he was 
elected state senator with but little oppo- 
sition, and was re-elec ted two years later. 
In the senate, also, he was a member of 
the judiciary committee. In both hou.ses 
.Mr. Van Ciorder |>roved hini.self a i>ains- 
taking servant, and performeil his duties 
with credit and distinction. He waN 
identified with much important legisla- 
tion. He wxs the author, for example, 
of one of the best and most far-reaching 
laws ever i)laced upon the statute books 
of the state — namely, the act to ])revent 
any peace officer or police official from 
engaging in the manufacture or sale of intoxicating 
liipiors. In the session of 1M!(:{ he was the aulhur 
and introducer of the " Hi-i)artisan l-ilection In- 
spectors" bill, which subseipiently, in IHO"), became 
a law of the state. 

Mr. N'an (border's activities have not been con- 
fined to ])olitics or his |)rofession. He has taken 
a deep interest in educational matters, and for many 
years has l)een one of the trustees of I'ike Seminary. 
He is also director and ]>resident of the Slate Hank 
of Hike, and thus has come into contact with 
financiers in western New York. He is a member ol 
several fraternal orders, and of the Holland Society 
of New York. June 1 , 1M!M;, Mr. Van (border entered 
into a co|»artnership for the practice of law at Hiiffalo. 



and is now a member of the firm of Itartlett, \'an 
Cordcr, White iV Holt. In all his relations as a 
lawyer, a banker, and a public man, he enjoys the 
esteem and confidence of those who know him. 

ri-.RSONAL CUR ONOI. O G ) — GrfenloiJ Soil 
Will llonifr ?<■'<; I At// ,iI York, Livingsloii ci'inilx. 




l.h'l-.h.M.l \ <,i i/K/ii A- 

X. ) '. , Jiiiii' ~ , IS.'i') ; leceiveti a common-school and 
nil tKiidcmii fjiicalioii ; iludifd law, and was admilled 
lo llie liar June l.'t, IST7 : mored lo Pike, N. )'. , Au- 
gusl 7, 1877 : married F.i-a li. Lyon of Pike Au)^iisl 
20, 1S78 : 7t'a.< siipcniior o/ I'ike, 18SS-SS, member 
of assemldy, 1888-8!), and stale senator, 18.'XJ-f/.1,- 
firacliicd laic <// /'ike, 1877-!Ki ; lias been f>reiideiil of 
llie Stole Hank of Pike since January, 18!) Jf .• has 
practiced law at Buffalo since June 1, ISHG. 

iDarnson ■HccMmm Oc^^cr ■- less ihan 

forty years old, but he has already, by dint of energy 
and close appliiation to business, won for himself 
a high pla< e among the sulistantial business men 
of Huffalo. The insurance firm with which he is 



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connecteil is regarded as one of the leaders in its line. 
But Mr. Vedder is not among those who selfishly 
confine their energies to their own personal interests. 
He is a man of public spirit, interested especially 
in promoting the business welfare of the city. He 
has long been one of the most active members of 




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the Merchants' Kxchange ; he was chairman of its 
postal committee in 1895, and is now ser\ing his 
second term as trustee of the institution. On the 
social side he is greatly interested in yachting, and is 
perhai)s as well known for his connection with this 
sport as for his business enterprises. He helped to 
organize the Buffalo Yacht Club, and was its commo- 
dore for three years, 1883-85. 

Mr. Vedder is a genuine product of Buftalo. He 
was born and educated there, served his business 
apprenticeship there, married there, and has always 
lived there. He began attending school at the age 
of si.\, and was able to continue his education until 
he was fourteen years of age. Young as he was, he 
then began to earn his own living. He entered tlic 



insurance office of Captain K. P. Dorr, where he 
remained three years. I'hus early did he gain an 
experience in the business that has jsroved his high- 
way to success. 

After leaving Captain Dorr young Vedder went to 
work as a clerk for the insurance firm of Smith, 
Davis & Clark. Here he continued five 
years, thus devoting altogether eight years 
to the insurance business as an employee 
before branching out for himself. He 
was now a young man of twenty-two, 
and ambitious for more rapid progress 
than seemed po.ssible in the position that 
he was then occupying. He had been 
prudent and economical, and had saved 
some money. He had, besides, formed 
an extensive acquaintance, which is of 
considerable value to a young man enter- 
ing almost any calling, and of decided 
value to one embarking in the insurance 
business. 

Mr. Vedder did not immediately, how- 
ever, enter business for himself. For a 
brief time he abandoned insurance alto- 
gether, becoming chief clerk for the West- 
ern Elevating Co. But after about a year 
of this business he returned permanently 
to insurance, forming a partnership with 
Charles J. Xorth that has since continued. 
, Mr. Vedder is active in the Masonic 

l^^k^ fraternity, and has attained distinction 
^^H^ therein. He is at present Senior Warden 
^^^H of Ancient Landmark Lodge, No. 441, 
^^^1 F. & A. M. He is also a member of 
^PH Adytum Chapter, Xo. 235, R. A. M., 
™^ * and of Hugh de Payens Commandery, 
No. oO, K. r. He takes an interest in 
the study and preservation of local his- 
tory, and is a life member of the Buffalo 
Historical Society. 

PERSONA L CHR ONOL O G V— Hairison 
Need ham Vedder was Iwrn at Buffalo September 11, 
1858 : 7{'as educated in the public schools : 7iias clerk 
ill an insurance office, 187:2-80 ; married Ida Eliza- 
beth Loreridge of Buffalo September l.J, 1881 ; has 
been a member of the insurance firm of North &^ Vedder 
since 1881. 



jFVilUCiS G. 1ClarC>, recently ap])ointed super- 
intendent of the water bureau of the city of Buffalo, 
is a man of thorough experience in the conduct of 
vast enterprises. He is a factor and ])ro(luct of this 
intensely practical age, which hesitates at nothing, 
from harnessing Niagara to divon ing ( ontinents. 



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Mr. Ward l)clongs to the generation rcarcil since the 
close of the Civil War. He received his |ireliniinary 
education at the Rectory School in Hamden, C"omi., 
and when still a child was sent to France, and placed 
in the Imlitution Cousin and Lycie Boiiaparlc, Paris. 
There he remained four years, ac(|uiring not only a 
careful scientific education, but as well a thorough 
Icnowleilge of the French language. The rumlilings 
of the coming struggle l>etween France and Ciermany 
were already in the air, and Americans residing in 
Paris felt it wise to return home l)efore the storm 
broke in all its fury. So young Ward came Iku k to 
the United States, and |jrei>ared to enter the An- 
napolis Naval Academy, to which he was appointed 
a cadet in IHT^. His stay in his native country, 
however, was not long, for he .soon returned to 
Eurojje, iledining the cadetship. After another 
year spent abroad in study .Mr. Ward re- 
turned home, and entered the em|)loy of 
the I.allin iV Rami Powder Co., whose 
Huffalo representative he became in 1M7"). 
After two years in this business he re- 
signed to accejjt a ))osition with the New 
York Central & Hudson River railroad. 
He began his railroad a|i])renticeship in 
the arduous and responsible position of 
night yardmaster and train dis|)atcher at 
the Clrand Central station in New York 
city. He was with the Central in various 
important ca]>acities for .seven years, when 
he became a.ssistant manager of the Har- 
lem line. 

.Mr. Ward's experience in railroading, 
and his skill in handling large bodies of 
employees, coupled with his scientific 
training anil command of the French lan- 
guage, commeiuled him to the favorable 
notice of the Cif Univfriellc Canal Pana- 
ma, which was engaged in building the 
canal across the isthmus of Panama ; and 
he was offered the superintendency of 
the Panama railroad, then owned by that 
com|);iny. He thereupon resigned from 
the Harlem line, and accepteii the [kd- 
sition under the French com|>any. .After 
sjiending two years at the isthmus, he 
was ordered to Paris and made manager 
of the railroad dcjiartment of the canal 
company, and a member of the construc- 
tion committee of the Turkish-.Asiatic 
railroad. In conneition with thesL' interests he 
remained abroad until iJ^fdl, when he obtained leave 
of absence, and returned to Huffalo to look after |)er- 
sonal matters. These he found so miu h disordered 



as the result of his long al>sence, that he felt obliged 
to resign his jKisition with the canal com|>;iny, and 
to devote his whole attention to his afliairs «ui this 
side of the water. 

In military circles .Mr. Ward is well known. I'or 
twelve years he was a memlxrr of the 7th New \"ork 
regiment, and .ns a member of the 74th regiment, of 
Huffalo, he became cajitain, lieutenant colonel, and 
ins|>ector of the Xth division. While at Panama he 
was for three years acting colonel of the battalion 
formed of employees of the Panama railroad located 
at .\spiiiwall. .\mong the many souvenirs of Mr. 
Ward's residence at .Aspinwall, one he values very 
highly. .-Vfter the destruction of that city by fire 
in l.S«.-), Mr. Ward rebuilt the entire plant of the 
canal com|uny, in< hiding wharves, railroad tracks, 
and the streets belonging Id the I'rench govern 




FKASt IS r, WARIt 

ment. In recognition of his distinguished service, 
and ujion the recommendation of M. Roii.sseau, 
councilor of state, who ins|)ected the work, Mr. 
W.ird was made the recipient of a Sevres vase. 



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MEN OF \Iiir )'ORK—U-ESrERX SECT/ON 



with a letter ol' thanks from the French government. 
In political and social life Mr. Ward is an active 
factor in Buffalo. He is clo.sely identified with the 
Republican party, and has been one of its local 
managers in .several campaigns. He is a member 
of the Sons of the American Revolution ; and in 





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the Masonic order he has been Master of Ancient 
Landmark Lodge, Captain General of Hugh de Payens 
Commandery, and Lieutenant Commander of Buffalo 
Consistory. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Francis Grant 
Ward was born at Jordan, N. Y. , March 8, 185G ; 
■was educated in the United States and France ; was 
in file employ of tlie Laflin &-" Rand Powder Co., at 
New Yorl{ and Buffalo, 181S-7(>, and of tlie New 
York Central &■' Hudson River railroad, 1877-85 ; 
7vas employed by the " Cie Univcrselle Canal Pan- 
ama," at Aspinwall afid elsewhere, 1885-89 ; married 
Christine Meday at Rutherford, N'. J. , November 3, 
1886 ; 7Cias appointed superintendent of the bureau of 
water of Buffalo in May, 1896. 



"flDCUrp lilllcill is an excellent representative of 
the class of citizens concerned in the oft-repeated 
compliment that the best blood of Europe has gone 
to make the present development of the United 
States. Born and educated in a foreign country, he 
brought to the land of his adoption an appreciation 
of the importance of industry such as can 

, be felt only by those who have .seen the 

greater poverty of the old world. To 
this, perhaps, more than to any other one 
thing, is due the business success he has 
achieved. He has been a tireless worker, 
shrewd, methodical, and with a read}' 
talent for grasping opportunities. He 
has built up a large importing business, 
besides aiding materially in the develop- 
ment of Buffalo real estate. 

Mr. ^^'eill is about forty-nine years 
old. His father was a real-estate dealer 
in the little town of Miittersholtz, Alsace, 
and Henry was kept steadily at school 
until he was si.xteen years of age. Dur- 
ing this time he went through the public 
schools, and obtained the French degree 
at the college in Schlestadt. He looked 
forward to a mercantile pursuit, and after 
leaving college became a clerk in a 
wholesale dry -goods house in Mulhouse, 
Al.sace. The experience here gained was 
valuable, especially as he was promoted 
rapidly, and was thus enabled to learn 
different branches of the busine.'iS. When 
about twenty years old he determined to 
seek the broader opportunities and better 
rewards that could be found on this side 
of the Atlantic. He tried New York for 
a time, but finding no suitable opening 
went to Buffalo ; and there his fortune 
has been made. He engaged first in sell- 
ing cloth to country tailors, and was reasonably 
successful, but after a short time became attracted by 
the jewelry business. It was not the line in which he 
had experience, but his ready ada|)tabilit\- enabled 
him (juickly to master its details, and by hard work 
and honest dealing he rajjidly built up a jjrosperous 
trade. In 1881 he decided to try manufacturing, 
and went to Chicago for this purpose. He estab- 
lished there a jewelry factory, the principal jiroduct 
of which was gold rings. After about two years he 
returned to Buffalo, and established the business of 
a diamond importer, which he followed up to 1892. 
Observing the ra|)id growth of Buffalo, Mr. Weill 
was one of the first to realize the possibilities that 
lav in real-estate operations. He iiought a tract of 



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land at North BuflTalo, developed it, and made it one 
of the most desiralile residence sections of the city. 
About five years ago he entered the hanking luisiness 
l)y helping to organize the Metropolitan liank, of 
which he has been president since 1N!I;{. 

Mr. Weill fills an im|>ortant place socially, and has 
been of great helji in building up several of the 
popular social organizations of the city. A notable 
case in point is the Orjiheus Society, which he joined 
when it was founded, having previously been a mem- 
ber of the I.iedertafel. He is also a charter member 
of the Phoenix Club, and is chairman of the building 
committee, which now has in hand the work of erect- 
ing a new clubhouse on Franklin street. He belongs 
to the Washington Lodge of Masons, and to several 
other .social organizations. He has been a trustee of 
Temple Beth Zion lor twenty-two years, and its 
president for four years. 

Mr. Weill has never held political of- , 

fice. He was elected a memlier of the ' 
executive board of the Orphan .Asylum of 
Western New York at Rochester. 

PERSOXAL CHROXOLOGY— 
Henry Weill was horn at Miiltersliollz, 
Alsace, France, December 17, 18^7 : 
graduated from the college de Schlestadt, 
Academic de Strasbourg, in 1863 : emi- 
grated to the United States in 18(17 : mar- 
ried Fannie Shire of Buffalo October Hi, 
1S70 : carried on a "wholesale jeioelrx 
business in Buffalo, 1808-02 : has been 
/•resident of the Metropolitan Bank of Buf- 
falo since 18U.H. 

GCOrilC Va. lUbCClCr exemplifies 
in hi.-, larccr the \aliic of devotion to an 
idea : when a mere boy he deciiled to be 
a lawyer, and a successful one : and hi- 
plan has become aii achievement. 

Mr. Wheeler's |xiternal grandfather was 
an l'",pisco|)al clergyman, for many year- 
in charge of the I'amous parish of Shrew- 
bury, N. j., whose historic ( hun h has 
stood for two hundred years, and bears 
in its walls many bullet holes made at 
the time of the Revolution. The am ient 
commimion service of the jiarish was the 
gift of (Jueen .-Vnne. The name of Mr. 
Wheeler's maternal grandfather, Sanuiel 
Kird.sall, is prominently connected with 
the progress of Seneca coimty. New York. He held 
various public offices, from suiKTvisor to congress- 
man, anil during De Witt Clinton's administration 
was judge advocate on the governor's staff. 



.\lr. Wheeler's |>arenLs were |)cople of culture, and 
his early years were s|K.-nt in an atmos|)here of refine- 
ment well calculated to t'oster his naturally studious 
habits. His father, a graduate of Hol>art College, 
was for a time his tutor. The thorough course of 
instruction map|)ed out for the young pupil was 
ended by the lather's untimely death. The mother 
was unable to |)ro\ide the means for further education, 
and the boy's ambition for a professional iifeseeme<l 
in danger of being thwarted. Through the influence 
of friends, anil because of his grandfather's service 
in the l')pisco|«;il churih, he gained admission to 
Ue \'eaux College, and received a four years' course 
there without ex|)ense to his widowed mother. 

After his graduation the problem of self-siip|)ort 
confronteil Mr. \\'heeler, and the legal profession 
still seemed far from his grasp. He secured a 




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jKjsition with the well-known firm of Sidne\ She|)aril 
iS: Co., and later with I'ratt \- Letchworth, carefiilly 
saving as much as jmssible, to hasten the time when 
he might begin his law studies. .After four years he 



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entered the office of Laning & Willett of Buffalo, and 
three years later, on October 10, 1879, was admitted 
to the bar at Rochester from the office of Burrows 
& Viele. On New Year's Day, 18.S(), he opened 
an office in Buffalo. Since then numerous important 
cases have been entrusted to him, and the successful 




CHARLES E. WILLIAMS 

manner in which he has conducted them has brought 
him deserved eminence in his profession. In the fall 
of 1895 he was a candidate for the nomination for 
county judge on the Reiniblican ticket. His many 
friends felt that his elevation to the bench would be 
a fitting tribute to his worth and ability, but he failed 
to receive the nomination. 

Mr. Wheeler is one of the founders of the Thurs- 
day Club, which is devoted to the study of men and 
things of a literary character. The club grew out of a 
reception and banijuet given in 1883 to commemo- 
rate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of 
W'a.shington Irving. The success of the celebration 
called forth a general desire for the formation of a 
jjcrmanent organization, and the Thursday Club was 



the result. In January, 18)^4, Matthew Arnold 
lectured imder its auspices at Concert Hall, and the 
proceeds of the lecture were given to the building 
fund of the Buffalo Library. 

Mr. Wheeler is a Past Master of DeMolay Lodge, 
No. 498, F. & A. M., and a Past Regent of Fillmore 
Council, No. X2:i, R. A. He is an Odd 
. Fellow as well. He also holds the hon- 
ored position of trustee of De Veaux Col- 
lege, in which he has taken an active 
interest ever since he was a student there. 
PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G V— 
George Welles IVJieeler was born at Ni- 
agara Falls, N K, September 1, 1856 : 
was educated at De Veaux College ; jcas 
admitted to the bar October ID, 1810; 
married Jennie F. Farrar of Buffalo Oc- 
tober 17, 1882; has practiced law in 
Buffalo since 1880. 



(Ibarles lE. Milliams is a Buf- 

falonian b)- birth, and has spent his whole 
business life in that city. He has been 
one of the fundamental, thorough-going 
workers who ha\'c done so much to make 
Buffalo a great modern city in all re- 
spects. His father was a prominent con- 
tractor, and the subject of this sketch was 
for many vears engaged with him in the 
l)uilding business. 

Mr. Williams was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of Buffalo, and at that well- 
known private institution, the Heathcote 
School. .After completing his course at 
the high school, he entered his father's 
office as bookkeeper, retaining the pos- 
ition for three years. 

Having resohed to obtain a technical 
education, he went to (Jermany, and pur- 
sued a two years' course of study at the celebrated 
Stuttgart Polytechnic Institute. His work there was 
devoted, for the most part, to engineering, archi- 
tecture, and kindred subjects. 

Upon his return to this country in 1870, he was 
taken into ])artnership by his father, under the firm 
name of Wm. I. Williams & Son, general contractors 
and builders. In 1X82, after the dissolution of this 
firm, he entered into jjartnership with 1). W. iMc- 
Connell, under the style of Williams & McConnell. 
Among the big contracts undertaken and success- 
fully carried out by this firm was the great reservoir 
at Charlottesville, \'a. 

Mr. Williams has paid much attention to the 
important |)rciblem of street jjaviug, and he has 



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extended his business interests in that direction. He 
is president of the ( lerman Rork Asphalt iV t'enient 
Co., Limited, which has laid many miles of smooth 
as|)halt pavement on the streets of HufTalo. He laid 
the first .\Iedina-l)lockstone jxivement on a concrete 
l>a.se ever put down on a public thoroughfare. He 
was the contractor for the construction of the 
governmenthreakwater extension at the [lort of 
HufTalo in \ss^. 

( )n the death of his |jartner, .Mr. .McC'onnell, 
.Mr. Williams organized a new firm, of which he is 
the .senior member — Williams, .McNaiighton & R-»|»st. 
This firm is largely engaged in the [tiiving antl 
general contracting business, and is interested in the 
grade-cros-sing changes now going on at what is 
known as "the Terrace" in the city of Buffalo. 
This work is extremely im|)ortant, as it will permit 
the trains of the Central-Hudson, Lake 

Shore, Michigan Central, and other rail- i 

roads to enter the I'nion Station at I 

HufTalo without crossing at grade several 
streets who.se congested traffic is now so 
endangered. 

Mr. Williams is treasurer of the Huf- 
falo Dredging Co., vice president of the 
HufTalo I'ioating Klevator Co.. and presi- 
dent of the .McConnell Catch Itein Co. 

Not only in business circles is Mr. 
Williams active and prominent, but 
equally in .social and military affairs is 
he a factor. For five \ears he was a 
member of old company I ), Huffalo City 
Cuards, and for an equal |>eriod was 
quartermaster of the 74th regiment, 
.National (iuard of the State of .New 
N'ork. He is a Scottish Kite Ma.son of 
the :!2d degree, a lite member of tiu 
HufTalo I'ress Club, and a member oi 
the Huffalo Rejuiblican League. 

/'J:NS0X.4 I. C 11 R OXOI. OGY— 
Charles Rihoin Williams nuts lioni at 
Buffalo February 21, 18ii2 ; teas educateil 
in the f>ul>lic schools ami the Ileatheote 
School of Buffalo, ami the Polytechnic 
Institute, Stutt:^art, Germany : has car- 
rial on the business of a paviuj^ and 
general contractor at Buffalo since 18~i!. 

James IR. liUStlll came to man- 
hood in the midst of stirring times, and 
l)egan early in life an active and a varieil career. 
He has lived in the West, the South, and the F.ast : 
has l>een a soUlier, a manufacturer, and a business 
man in difTerent lines : and the best |«rt of it all 



is that sulistantial success has attended him from first 
to last. He was born in Milwaukee shortly l>efore 
the middle of the century. His |>arents were among 
the first .settlers of that |)ros|)erous city, and they 
are both living there still, at ages very advanced. 

Mr. Austin's education was good so far as it went, 
but it might have gone farther without violating the 
proprieties. .Xf'ter attending the public s« hools and 
the Milwaukee .Militarv .\c;ulemv, he made his choice 
l>elween college and countingroom by accepting, at 
the age of sixteen, a ilerk.ship in the wholesale dry- 
goods house of Hradford Hros, This was the second 
largest concern in the Northwest, and the salary was 
S«()0 a year. In normal times young .Austin might 
have been content to plod along in the usual rut of 
an entry clerk ; but the times were altogether abnor- 
mal, and the young man was im|>atient to have a 



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J ISfllS A'. .IIST/.Y 

more active |>iirt in the great drama of history then 
unfolding. 

In February, IXf!-}, therefore, he enlisted as a pri- 
vate in lomimnv .\ of the ."{".Ith Wis( onsin volunteer 



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infantry, and went to the front. He was captured 
in August, 1864, in the course of Forrest's raid on 
Memphis, Tenn. After hasty transfers from one 
prison pen to another, he was finally landed in a 
closely packed, open stockade, ridiculously styled 
"Castle Morgan," at Cahaba, Ala. Here he suf- 
fered all the miseries of e.xposure, starvation, naked- 
ness, sickness, and needless cruelty implied in the 
more familiar name of Andersonville. His life was 
barely saved by a fortunate exchange in October of 
the same year, and in January, 1865, he was mus- 
tered out of service. He then returned to Milwau- 
kee, and after regaining health resumed his position 
in the house of Bradford Bros. They had continued 
his salary during his army service, after the manner 
of a few other patriotic and generous concerns. 

Reversing the usual procedure, Mr. .\ustin went 
due i-last in February, 1866, to take a position in the 
Boston agency of the New York Life Insurance C"o. 
Subsequently succeeding to the management of this 
l)ranch of the business, he conducted the agency 
for five \ears with conspicuous success. His office, 
indeed, is said to have received and remitted to the 
home office the largest amount of premium payments 
of any agency in the country. 

.\fter engaging for some time in mining and in the 
manufacture of agricultural implements, Mr. Austin 
decided to make Buffalo his home, and to embark in 
real-estate ventures in that promising city. He went 
thither, accordingly, in 1880, having previously 
made investments there, and having for a long time 
studied the situation, and noted the favorable aspects 
of the same. Associating himself with .\. J. Riegel 
in the firm of .•\ustin & Riegel, he built up a large 
business in a magically rapid way. In less than a 
year the firm .sold over .S3,0(X),()00 worth of farm 
property, 'rhe.se operations led to the establishment, 
in 1892, of the Security Investment Co. of Buffalo, 
which includes among its directors and stockholders 
some of the most successful bankers and business 
men of the city. At the beginning James B. Staf- 
ford was elected president and James R. .-Vustin vice 
president ; and both these efficient officers have 
since been annually re-elected to their res|)ective 
positions. 

.Mr. .\ustin is a Sir Knight of the Masonic order. 
He is also a member of Bidwell-Wilke.son Post, No. 
9, Vi. A. R. ; of the Buffalo Merchants' F'.xihange : 
and of the Kllirott Club. 

I'ERSOXAL CHK 0X0 L O U i '—Janus Russell 
Austin was born at Milwaukee, Wis., July 26, 1847; 
was educated in public schools and Mihuaukee Military 
Academy ; laas clerk in a wliolesale dry-)^oods house in 
Milwaukee, lSH.^-60, laith the exception of a rear 



spent in the Union army ; was agent and manager o/ 
a life-insurance agency at Boston, 1866-78 ; engaged 
in mining and in the manufacture of agricultural 
implements, 1879-89 : moved to Buffalo in ISS!) and 
began real-estate operations : has been rice president of 
the Security Investment Co. of Buffalo since its organ- 
ization in 1892. 



BUcJUSt JBecher is young in years, though well 
matured in the practice of his profession. .\ man 
who secures an early start in the quickened and busy 
life of this nineteenth century has an incalculable 
advantage over those who enter the race even a few 
years later in life. Mr. Becker not only made an 
early start as a lawyer, but has forged ahead in his 
profession at an age when others are just beginning 
to acquire practice. 

Mr. Becker is a native of Buffalo, where he was 
born two years after the great Civil War was brought 
to a close. He obtained his education in the pub- 
lic schools of the city, and after a thorough prepara- 
tory training in the elementary Knglish branches he 
entered the office of Greene, McMillan & Gluck, 
one of the strongest legal firms of western New 
York. This firm was subsequently styled McMillan, 
Cluck it Pooley, and was noted throughout the state 
lor its skill in that modern and intricate branch of 
the profession known as corporation law. No better 
training school for legal culture could be found, 
on account of the experience of the firm, its valu- 
able library, and the prestige and traditions of 
the office. Mr. Becker served a busy and faithful 
apprenticeshi]! with this firm, ac(|uiring a sound 
practical knowledge, as well as a broad and compre- 
hensive theory, of the law, particularly as related to 
corporations. He was admitted to the bar at 
Rochester, at a term of the Supreme Court held in 
that city in Octolier, 1888, a few months after his 
majority. 

.\fter a fiirther period spent in familiarizing liim- 
self with the routine of a law office, Mr. Becker 
began the practice of his jjrofession in the city of 
his birth in July, 1X91, and i)racticed alone for 
one year. A striking feature of the legal profession 
is the tendency of lawyers to associate themselves in 
legal firms, and specialize their work. In this way 
doubled experience, increa.sed clientage, and greater 
prestige are obtained ; for it is as true in law as in 
any other busine.ss that two heads are better than 
one. Mr. Becker was quick to recognize this ad- 
vantage, and he formed a partnership with Charles 
C. Farnham of Buffalo, under the firm name of 
Becker & Farnham, that has continued until the 
present time. 



M/:\ or xi:ir voKK-irESTEhW sect/ox 



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Mr. Ikcker is distinctly a student of the law, and 
lor a young man is deeply versed in legal literature. 
He has already figured as an author, having issued 
in conjunction with James Fraser (lluck a work 
known as " GUuk & Becker on Receivers of C"or- 
jiorations"; and the volume has been so well ai)|>ri-- 
riated by the legal profession that a 
second edition of the work is now in 
I tress. 

.Mr. Becker has wisely cho.sen to hold 
him.self aloof from the distractions of a 
political career, realizing the wisdom ^yi 
the old adage against having too man\ 
irons in the fire. Nor has he sought 
through social affiliations to gain ])rac- 
lice, having relieil for success upon in- 
dustry, and entire devotion to a noble 
profession. 

/'EA'SOX.4 L CHR ONOL O GY— 
A tiffin/ Becker was horn at Buffalo Aii- 
:^uil V), 1S07 ; loas eJiicateJ in (lie ////'//V 
st/ioo/s of that tity ; stiutieJ /aw in tlie 
office of Greene, McMillan ^5^■ Gluck, anil 
uiits admitted to the bar in ISSS : has 
/•racficed Ictw in Buffalo since IS'> I . 

Cti. "b. 36irOC "ii"-^ born more than 
ninety years ago in fhittenden county, 
Vermont. His whole life, from his re- 
sourceful youth to his \ igorous old age, 
illustrates the I'uritaii virtues in varitiM> 
ways, and it is not .surprising to finil 
that his ancestors were descended from 
one of the I'lymoulh I'ilgrims. In the 
early \ears of the century educational 
t)p|)ortunities were lew, and .Mr. Hirge 
obtained rather more training than most 
young men in attending the (lislri< t 
schools and the village ai adeiny. .\t the 
age of twenty he entered upon a business career that 
was destined to last sixty -six years. Obtaining a 
l>osition as a i lerk in a general store at Middlebiiry, 
Vt., in Ix2*>, he learned the business rajtidly. and at 
the end of three years felt able to start in on his own 
a< count. He diil so, accordingly, .\pril I, iH'iil, 
carrying on a general store suciessfiilly for about 
live years. 

Mr. Ilirge had too much I'liriian blood in his 
veins, and was loo good a Yankee, to remain satisfied 
with the slow-going life of a Vermont country town, 
and in IH.U he joined the endless ])rocession of west- 
ward emigrants. His original purjjose was to go to 
Chicago, but he was so much pleased with Buffalo that 
he derided to cast in his lot with the l.'t.OiMI people 



then resident there. On Octolicr 15, 1834, he 
o|)ened a store on Main street devoted to dry goods, 
[)a|)er hangings, and general merchandise. 

Ilardlv had Mr. Birge Iteiome fairly established in 
his new venture when the financial crash of 1><."{7, 
one of the most serious in the hi.storv of the country. 




(/ ..I ST ni-iKrh' 

il&scended u|)on him. lailures abouniled in every 
branch of trade, and many of his customers |iaiil 
him little or nothing. He was unable, therefore, to 
meet his own obligations. He did not on that ac- 
count take advantage of the Iwnkruptcy law to force 
upon his creditors a fractional jwyment of their 
claims : but |»aid them what he could at one e, |>roni- 
ising to pay all in time. This promise he kept 
faithfully. By l«4ri he had jaid off the la.st obliga- 
tion dollar for dollar, and was even with the world 
and at |)eace with his con.s< ience. The struggle had 
been long and at times disheartening ; but virtue is 
its own reward, and Mr. Birge must have been rejiaid 
manv-fold for his self-sarrifice during the fifty years 
since ela|)sed. 



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A/EN OF X/-:U' YORK—IVESTEKX SECT/O.X 



Before the middle of the century Mr. Birge's busi- 
ness had resolved itself into the wall-paper trade 
exclusively, and for many years he carried on one of 
the largest stores in this line in western New York. 
Up to 1879 he handled stock manufactured by 
others ; but in that year, in connection with his sons. 



of Sheldon, Vt., October 21, 1836 ; opened a general 
store ill Buffalo in 183^ ; established the manufacture 
of 7un II paper in 1879, and remained at the head of 
the firm until his retirement iti 1892. 




and under the firm name of M. li. Birgc & Sons, he 
began the manufacture of paper hangings. His long 
experience in the business and minute acquaintance 
with \vall-pa])er stock assured in advance the success of 
the new enterpri.se. On Jime 1, 1892, after having 
built up the Imsiness to large proportions, Mr. Birge 
disi)Osecl of his interest to his son.s. He has since 
lived in retirement from active affairs, enjoying the 
leisure and rest to which he was years ago entitled. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Martin Hoiv- 
land Birge was born at Underhill, Vt.,July SO, 1806 ; 
was educated in district schools and the village acad- 
emy ; was clerk in a general store at Middlchury, Vt. , 
1826-29, and carried on a similar store on his own 
account, 1829-3^ : married Elizabeth Ann A'ingslrv 



Spencer Clinton, years ago a leader at the 
I'^rie-county bar, and now one of the 
most distinguished lawyers in the Em- 
pire State, belongs to an historic family. 
His grandfather on the maternal side 
was John C. Spencer, .secretary of war 
under President Tyler and an eminent 
jurist. His grandfather on the other 
side, De Witt Clinton, was mayor of 
New York city, governor of New York 
state, and United States senator. But 
for him the Erie canal might never have 
been built, and certainly would not have 
been built until many years after its 
actual construction. Mr. Clinton's own 
lather, (Jeorge ^^'. Clinton, was one of 
the ablest lawyers of his day. 

Spencer Clinton was born in Buffalo, 
and has always lived there. His educa- 
tion was obtained in public and pri- 
vate schools in Buffalo, Brockport, and 
Albany. Colleges were not so numerous 
and accessible at the time of his youth 
as now, and Mr. Clinton did not have 
the benefit of a collegiate course. Hav- 
ing determined to study law, he entered 
the office of Solomon C. Haven for that 
purpose, and subsequently carried on his 
reading under William Dorsheimer. He 
made rapid progress in his studies, and was 
admitted to the bar in the October term 
of 1800, when twenl\ -one years of age. 

Measured by the standards of to-day, 
when many men destined for the law are 
not even out of college at that age, Mr. Clinton 
made a prompt beginning on his life-work : and 
his progress was still further accelerated early in 
his professional career by an aijpointment as assist- 
ant United States district attorney under his former 
preceptor, William Dorsheimer. In this ]josition 
Mr. Clinton had a chance to show his legal abilit}-, 
and he discharged the duties of the office for 
several years with brilliant success. In 18()8 he 
formed a partnership witli Charles 1). Marshall for 
the general practice of the law-. This association 
has been maintained ever since, and has been 
altogether successful. Others have been admitted to 
the firm at various times, but the original partnership 
has not been severed. Since 18!)."! .Adolpli Roliadow. 



.\fE.\ or XEIV yOKK—li'ESTEK.y SECnOA 



ia:> 



who studied as a young inan in the office of Marshall 
& Clinton, has been a mcmlier of the firm, and the 
present style is Marshall, Clinton & Rebadow. The 
firm is one of the strongest in western New York, 
and transacts an immense amount of legal business. 
Mr. Clinton is everywhere regarded as a lawyer of 
great sagacity, wide learning in the law, and sound 
judgment. 

Though deprived himself of systematic training 
in a law school, Mr. Clinton believes thoroughly in 
such in.->titutions. He ha.s taken an active interest in 
the Buffalo Law School, having been one of the or- 
ganizers of the institution, and having lectured 
therein ever since its foundation. He has been 
attorney for the Buffalo grade-crossing commissioners 
since IHJST, and has done all that he could, aside 
from his professional interest in the matter, to ex- 
|)edite and discharge in the best possible 
manner the im])ortant work of this com- 
mi.ssion. He is one of the trustees of the 
Buffalo Savings Bank and a director of 
the Third National Bank. As executor of 
two large estates, he represents the C. J. 
Wells elevator and the Bennett elevator 
in the Western Klevating .^s-sociation. 

Mr. Clinton has been absorbed in his 
professional work, and has studiously 
avoided i)ublic office. In 18S7, how- 
ever, he permitted himself to become 
the Democratic nominee for state sena- 
tor : and he was much relieved by the 
success of the opposing candidate. I'he 
episode is worth mentioning becau.se 
renders will remember how freely and 
frankly the opposing pre.ss aiknowledged 
Mr. Clinton's ability and high character. 
The .National Democratic state conven- 
tion, held at I'.rooklyn Sei)tember lM. 
1X1M), nominated him by ai clamalion for 
the iX)sition of a.s.sociatc judge of tin- 
Court of .-Vppeals. 

In social life Mr. Clinton has enjoyed 
the position to which his professional 
attainments and personal character would 
naturally entitle him. He is a promi- 
nent member of the Buffalo Club, and 
was its president in IHH.'). He is a 
member of St. I'aul's Kpi.sco|»al Church. 

PERSOXAL CIIROXOLOGY— 
Spencer Clinton nus /wn at Buffalo June 
JO, IS-iO : 7i'(is eJuca 'eJ in public and private schools : 
studied laii', and was admitted to the bar in 1860; 
was assistant United States district attorney, 1S66- 
tiS : has practiced law in Buffalo since ISilS. 



OCOl'OC il. IDaVls? '•»" enjoy in full measure 
the satisfai,iiui) that comes from the gratification of 
an honorable ambition. Nowhere but in America, 
perhaj», would a life like his be jwssible ; but even 
in this favored land it requires ability and determina- 
tion for a young man entirely de|)endcnt on his own 
resources to become a successful lawyer and public 
man before he has reached his fortieth year. 

Mr. Davis was born in Buffalo, and is a thorough 
BulTalonian, though of late years he has been actively 
identified with one of the suburlian towns. His 
education was received in the Buffalo ])ublic schools ; 
and he doubtless used the ojiportunities there all the 
more faithfully liecause the lack of money made the 
acquisition of an education somewhat difficult. On 
the completion of his school course, he learned the 
trade of a jiicture-frame maker, and worked at that 




spu.yrr.K r/./xro.y 

long enough to get a little money ahead. But he 
had determined to become a lawyer, and as .soon as 
circumstances [jermitted he left the workman's bench 
for a law office. !(» '■•■':ime a student in the office 



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of Day & Romer, 15ulTalo, and applied himself so 
diligently to the task of gaining the necessary knowl- 
edge of the law that in three years he was admitted 
to the bar. 

Mr. Davis at once opened an office in Buffalo, and 
has practiced there continuously since. The same 




CEORCE .1. /i.n/s 

energy and ahilily that gained for him admission to 
his profe.ssion at the early age of twenty-two, in s[iite 
of obstacles that would have disheartened a less 
determined man, have brought him success in his 
chosen calling : and he has already established a 
reputation as an able attorney. 

Public affairs have interested .Mr. l)a\is greatly 
for many years. Before he was thirty he was a 
member of the JOrie-county l)oard of supervisors, 
representing the iltli ward of the city of Buffalo for 
two years. On his removal to Lancaster in 1887, 
he was elected sujiervisor of the town, and proved .so 
able a guardian of the interests of the community 
that he has held the office ever since. In the years 
l.HSii, l«f)4, and iNil.") he was chairman f)l the 



board of supervisors, being the unanimous choice of 
his colleagues of both political parties ; and he made 
an admirable presiding officer, and displayed unusual 
executive ability. In 1890 he was nominated for 
representative in congress from the 33d congres- 
sional district. This wSs a year of defeat for the 
Republican party, however, and Mr. 
Davis failed of election by a small major- 
ity. In 1894 he was a delegate to the 
state constitutional convention. There 
he was made a member of the committees 
on banking, insurance, and military, and 
did good work in each. In 1895 he was 
elected, by a majority of nearly 6000 
votes, to represent his district, the 49th, 
in the upper house of the state legisla- 
ture ; and on the organization of that 
body he became a member of the com- 
mittees on judiciary, commerce, navi- 
gation, penal institutions, and Indian 
affairs, acting as chairman of the latter. 
Such a record for a comparati\ely 
young man iiidiiates uncommon talent 
for public affairs, and this Mr. Davis un- 
doubtedly po.ssesses. It is safe to predict 
that further honors are in store for one 
who has already served his fellow-citizens 
so acceptably. 

Mr. Davis is well known, also, from 
Ills long connection with the National 
(luard. Enlisting as a prisate in the 
74th regiment in 1877, he rose through 
all the intermediate grades until he be- 
came commander of the regiment : and 
this [josition he retained for a number 
of years. He is a 32d degree Mason, 
belonging to the Buffalo Consistory, and 
a Knight Templar in Lake Ivrie Com- 
mandery. Since his removal to Lancaster 
he has taken an active interest in Trinity Kpiscopal 
Church there, and is at present one of its wardens. 

PERSONAL CUROXOLOGV— Georgf Allen 
Davis ivas born (it Buffalo August ■'>, /<9.T,S' .• nurs 
ccliiiatcil in tlir puhlli schools : studied law, and ttms 
admitted to tlie har in ISHO : married Lillie N. 
(i rimes of Lancaster, A. )'. , June J/, IHS.'i : 7C>as a 
memher of the constitutional convention in iSH.'f, and 
loas elected state senator in ISQiJ ; has been a member 
of the Erie-county board of suf>crvisors since IPSii ; 
has />racticed laic in Buffalo since ISSO. 
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.IBCHjainin JfOlSOm, «ell known in western 
New \'()rk as a member of the bar, and throughout 
the countrv as the representative from the I'nited 



Mf:.\ ('/• .\7:"/f IV'A'A— ;/'A.s7AA'.\' SECT/OX 



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States in an im|>ortant I'oreign Ntation, was l)orn in 
Wyoming county, New York, in 1«47. Ihe lolsom 
family has an interesting genealogy, beginning in 
this coimtry with the landing of John Folsom in 
I(i38 at Hinghani, ^Ias^., and directly traceable 
from him to the present generation. After receiving 
his preliminary training in the Attica Union School 
and Wyoming Aiademy, Mr. Kolsom pre|>ared for 
lollege at (".enesee Wesleyan Seminary at Lima, 
.\. \'., and entered the Tniversity of Rochester in 
the fall of lH(i7. He took the classical ( oiirse there, 
and graduated in 1871 with honors, obtaining the 
degree of Bachelor of .\rts, and afterward receiving 
from the .same institution the degree of Master of Arts. 

Mr. Kol.som at first contemplated a journalistic 
career, and he went to Kurope as a newsjKiper <()rre- 
spondent in the summer of his gradua- 
tion. He seem.s, however, to have 
agreed with Thiers's doubtful prai.se of 
journalism as "a very good profession 
if you get out of it in time" : for he 
soon ihanged his |)lans, and after serving 
on the staff of the New York //'(vA/ until 
ihe fall of 1X72, began the study of law 
in the office of Ba.ss & Bi.s.sell, Buffalo. 
He made rapid progress in this work, 
and was regularly admitted to the bar in 
October, 1H7."). l-"or the next two years 
he strengthened his grasp of legal prin 
I i pies, and obtained further insight into 
the actual conduct of litigation, by ser 
vice in the city attorney's office as 
managing clerk. Opening an office in 
Buffalo on his own ai count in 1h7h, he 
began the active practice of the law , and 
continued the s;ime with marked success 
until November, lH«ti. 

.\n appointment as United States con 
sul at Sheffield, Kngland, received at 
that time, caused a long interruption in 
his law practice. He remained at Shef- 
field about seven years, resigning the 
consulate in 1X1):{ for the purpo.sc of 
returning to this country, and looking 
after his real-estate interests in California 
and in Omaha, Neb. The extraordi- 
narily rapiil grow th of ( )maha vastly 
increa.sed the value of the estate of his 
father, the late Benj. R. I'olsom, and the 
care and tleveiopment of this pro|)erty, together 
with its |iartition and tlivision, rei|uire<l Mr. Fol- 
som's ])ersonal attention. Having adjusted his 
affairs in the West, he returned to Buffalo and re- 
sumed the ])ractice of law . 



In jMilitical matters .Mr. Kolsom ha.s allied him.self 
with the Democratic |<arty. He has served in the 
ranks, and has never sought a nomination tor office. 
For many years liefore his residence in Kngland he 
was secretary and treasurer of the board oi trustees 
of the City and Count) Hall, Buffalo: and in that 
ca|xicity he arranged and systematized the accounts 
of the institution in the way that they are now kept. 

Mr. Fol.som is a member of the Ma.sonic order, 
Itelonging to Washington Lodge, No. :i4ll. Buffalo, 
and to Talbot Chapter of Rose Croix, Scottish Rite, 
Sheffield, England. He is a member, also, of the 
University Club, Buffalo, St. (Jeorge's Club, Ixindon, 
and the .Sheffield Club, Sheffield. He is much 
interested in the history of his family, and is engaged 
in a slu(l\ iti the I'olsom ycncalouv. 




I'ERSOXA L CUKOXOL 0(. ) — Jinijaiiin, 
Folsom was horn al l-'olsonulalf, ll'vomii/i; rou/i/v. 
.Y. )'., Deteinhfi- .», ISJfl .■ j^raduatfii from thf 
Univrrsily of Rochester in Ifi7 1 : sen-ed as nrtvspaper 
iorresf>onifent, l,f~l-7J: studied hno, iiiid was ad- 



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.\fEX OF NFIV ]-()RK—JVESrER.\ SECTfOX 



milted to the bar in ISlo : practiced iaic in Buffalo, 
1878-86; raas United States consul at Sheffield, 
Eng., 1886-f)S ; married Mrs. Ella Blanchard 
Hmvard of Rochester Oct. 11, 18f>S ; returned the 
practice of law in Buffalo in ISO-S. 



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rilll.lf CF.KS'J- 

IPbilip GerSt lias attained high public station 
in BiilTalo at an iinu.sually early age, and is among 
the youngest of the i)rominent city officials. The 
chronology of events in his comparatively short 
career l)cs])eaks an energy, determination, and abil- 
ity that may be expected to lead to yet higher 
jjositions in the public service in coming years. 
He has made an excellent start, and bids fair to 
maintain his present rate of progress. 

Mr. (lerst is a native of Buffalo, and still lives 
in the house in which he was born thirty-odd years 
ago. Few men know the beautiful city .so intimately 
and thoroughly as he ; and his accurate ac(|uaint- 
ance with both the people and the history of Buffalo 
has doubtless stood him in good stead in his political 
campaigns. His educational training preparatory 




to entering upon a vocation was obtained in the 
public schools of Buffalo, and in a business college. 
He graduated from Public School Xo. 20, and after 
a period of study at the Central High School en- 
tered Bryant & Stratton's Business College, where 
he acquired a knowledge of commercial 
forms and usages. 

.\fter completing his school course he 
began the study of law in the office of 
James A. Roberts. Practical business 
life, however, attracted him strongly, and 
he soon laid aside his text-books to en- 
ter the railway service. He was in the 
employ of the Erie railroad for several 
years, rising from the position of mes- 
senger to that of cashier. Resigning 
from the railroad company in 1886, he 
went into the coal business with the firm 
of Dakin & Sloan ; and afterward em- 
barked in the real-estate business, form- 
ing a partnership with Michael Doll. 
He is still engaged in this, having lately 
purcha.sed the interest of his partner. 

While earning the reputation of an 
active and enterprising business man, 
Mr. Gerst at the same time was coming 
to the front as a forceful factor in 
the |)olitics of Erie county. He has 
been conspicuous in the reform move- 
ments that have so much benefited the 
city politics of Buffalo. In 1892 he was 
nominated for his first office, that of 
assessor. Though defeated, he ran ahead 
I of his ticket several hundred votes in his 

J own ward ; and his friends maintain 

that he was deliberately counted out. 
His strength having been thus demon- 
strated, he was elected in the folk)«iiig 
year to the state assembly. He represented the (ith 
Erie district in the legislature two years, and estab- 
lished a record that entitled him to further con- 
sideration at the hands of his party. In 189"), 
accordingly, he was nominated for the responsible 
]josition of treasurer of the city of Buffalo, and was 
elected by a large majority. On the first of January, 
l.S9(), he began his four years' term of office; and 
he is already fulfilling the preilictions and anticipa- 
tions of his friends. 

Mr. Gerst is an enthusiastic fraternit)' man. be- 
longing to Occidental Lodge, No. 7K(1, of the 
Masonic order, and having membership in tlu- 
Valley of Buffalo Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite 
Masons, 32d degree. He is also a memljer of the 
North Buffalo Lodge of Odd Fellows, No. .")17. 



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PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Philip G(rsl 
was bom at Buffalo Sfptfinhfr 17, ISIl.i ; loas eiiu- 
caUa in the public schools aiiii Bryant ^ St ration' s 
Business College ; 7i'as in the employ of the Erie rail- 
road, 1S79-86, and of Dakin ^ Sloan, coal dealers, 
1S80S8 : was member of assembly, ISfl^-Oo ; was 
elected treasurer of the city of Buffalo in ISft.'i, for 
the term IStW-OO : has carried on a real-estate and 
insurance business since 188ft. 

• • • — 

E^\var^ ICl. t»atCb, though still in the prime 
of life, long ago attaintil a position of dignity and 
im|)ortance in the affiiirs of men. The judicial call- 
ing, probably more than any other, reipiires a com- 
bination of i|ualitics and a thoroughness of mental 
eipiipment that can rarely be found outside the ranks 
of men well advanced in years and ex|)ericnce. 
That Judge Hatch was tbund to ix)ssess 
early in life the reifuisite ex])erience in 
the law, and the penetration and general 
matiiriiy of mind appropriate to the 
bench, stamps him at once as a man of 
excejitional ability and character. 

Heredity doubtless had something to 
do with all this. Judge Hat( h's grand- 
father was Captain Jeremiah Hatch, who 
obtained his title through heroic action 
in the War tor lnde|Knilence. His son 
Jeremiah inherited, with his father's 
name, something at least of his father's 
spirit, for he raised a com|xiny at tin- 
outbreak of the Civil War, and went ti^ 
the front as cajitain of the l.'iOth Ne" 
York volunteers. He died at .Suffolk. 
\'a., in December, 1H(>"2. 

Judge Hatch was born in 1-riendship. 
.\llegany county, and attended the acadc 
my there in the fall and winter months 
until he wa.s sixteen years old. Cnable 
to pursue his studies further in a system 
atic way at that time, he turned hi.s 
hand to the blacksmith's trade, and al.so 
engaged in lumbering in the Pennsylva- 
nia forests and in Wyoming county, 
New York. These occu|)ations — not 
altogether prophetic of his later career — 
occupied alioiit lour years, between IXil.s 
and 1X72. In the latter year he found an 
opportunity to take the first step towards 
satisfying an ambition that he had long 
cherisheil. .\ntlrew J. l.orish, afterward (ounty 
judge of Wyoming < ounty, was then postmaster of 
.Vttica, and was also practicing law there He gave 
Mr. H:it. h 1 . I rkship in the post offi<e. « ith the 



understanding that a considerable juirt of the time 
might l>e devoted to the reading of law. 'I'his 
divideil allegiance to businc"ss and to study was a 
poor substitute for a law school ; but the young 
student made the most of his op|)ortunities, and had 
accomplished a great deal when the chance came, in 
1X74, to go to Buffalo and enter (he law office of 
Corlett & Tabor. Mr. Corlett afterward became a 
juiitice of the Supreme Court, and .Mr. Talxjr the 
attorney general of the state ; anil in their offi( e a 
broad anil thoroughly practical training in the law 
could be obtained by a diligent student. Mr. Hatch 
remained with them until the dissolution of the 
tlrm in 1K7"), and continued with .Mr. Corlett 
until admitted to the bar the next year. He 
then jiracliced law alone for two years, when he 
was invited by Mr. Corlett to form a [Kirtnership 




l-IHKAXn II. IIATfll 

«ith liim. I his .1.S.SOI iation, significant of Mr. 
Hatch's fidelity and success as a law student, con 
tinned until Judge Corlett went upon the Itench in 
I"-; \fter that, in januarv. Ixx4. .Mr. Hatch. 



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together with I'orter Norton and H. W. I'.ox, 
formed the law firm of Box, Hatch & Norton, with 
which -Mr. Hatch continued to practice until his 
elevation to the bench January 1, 1X!^7. 

A firm believer in the principles of the Republican 
party, Mr. Hatch early rose to prominence in polit- 
ical circles. In 1880, and again three years later, 
he was nominated by acclamation for the office of 
district attorney of Erie comity. He was elected by 
large majorities on both occasions, and discharged 
with conspicuous ability the important duties of the 
office. He was next a candidate for public honors 
in the foil of 18S6, when he was elected by a large 
majority for a term of fourteen years one of the 
judges of the Superior Court of Buffalo. The new 
state constitution, prepared by the convention ot 
1894, abolished that court, and provided that the 
judges thereof should be transferred to the state Su- 
preme Court on January 1, 1896, for their unexjjired 
terms. This feature of the constitution would have 
affected Judge Hatch, had he not been nominated 
in the fall of 189.3 as justice of the Supreme Court 
for the 8th judicial district. He was elected, with 
many votes to spare, and thus entered upon a new 
term of fourteen years from January 1, 1896. Under 
the new constitution the Supreme Court has four 
appellate divisions, to which justices are assigned by 
the governor ; and Judge Hatch was appointed for 
five years one of the appellate judges for the 'Id de- 
partment, comprising Kings and adjoining counties. 
He entered u|)on his new duties at Brooklyn January 
1, 1896. 

A justice of the Supreme Court of the state of 
New York cannot discharge his duties ably and con- 
scientiously and have much time left for outside pur- 
suits. Judge Hatch is subject to this limitation, but 
he contrives, nevertheless, to maintain clo.se relations 
with many movements affecting the public welfare. 
He delivers occasional lectures on literary and social 
topics as well as on questions of the day. His career 
thus far has been rich in results, and promises a 
future of honorable achievement. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G Y—EJiaan/ 
IVingate Hatch was born at Friendship, yV". F., No- 
vember 26, 1852 ; received a common-school education ; 
began the study of law at Attica, N. V. , in 1872, and 
was admitted to the bar in 1876; married Helen 
Woodruff of Conncaut, O., in 1878 : practiced law in 
Buffalo, 187(1-86; was district attorney of Eric 
county, 1881-86 ; was fudge of the Superior Court of 
Buffalo, 1887-9'} ; became judge of the Supreme 
Court January 1, 1806, and roas appointed by Go7'- 
crnor Morton appellate judge for the 2d department of 
that court for a term of fi7<e rears. 



XUCiaU IbawlCS '^^^ considerably exceeded 
the scriptural limitation of life, and has never in all 
the.se years been false to the trust reposed in him. 
As counselor, public official, corporation officer, and 
trustee, the chief business of his life has been to 
guard and preserve the interests of others. With 
what vigilance and fidelity he has done this our 
opening statement shows. The more critically and 
minutely his career is exainined, the more clearly 
will this aspect of his life appear. 

Born not long after James Monroe entered the 
White House, in Saratoga county, New York. Mr. 
Hawley spent his boyhood in that part of the state. 
His education was begun at (ilens Falls, and was 
finished at Buffiilo, whither he had moved in April, 
18.S7. In those days the opportunities for academic 
and collegiate instruction were far le.ss abundant than 
now, and Mr. Hawley was imable to study for a 
degree. He had the best possible substitute, how- 
ever, in a long term of service with the legal firm of 
Fillmore, Hall & Haven. Millard Fillmore, after- 
ward President of the United States, and his asso- 
ciates, were giants at the Erie-county bar ; and Mr. 
Hawley, as managing clerk of the firm, could hardly 
have been better placed to acquire valuable experience 
in the actual |)ractice of the law. He held this 
position for four years, and was thus enabled to 
obtain admission to the bar in November, 1844. 

His first i)artnership was with Isaiah T. Williams, a 
brother of the late (libson T. Williams. In 1846 
the firm was strengthened by the addition of Nelson 
K. Hopkins, and the style became ^^'illiams, Ho])kins 
& Hawley. This association was dissolved in 1847. 
when Mr. Hawley formed a partnership with his 
brother, Seth C. Hawley. An ap]jointment, in 1849, 
as deputy collector of customs for the district of 
Buffalo Creek, caused Mr. Hawley to abandon the 
law for about four years. At the end of that period 
he became successively managing clerk in the law 
office of John (lanson, secretary of the company 
publishing the Commercial Advertiser, traveling col- 
lector for the famous house of Pratt & Co., and 
secretary of the Buffalo Agricultural Machine Works. 

This brings us down to 186"), when Mr. Hawley 
began his long career in the United States internal- 
revenue service. During the eleven years thus em- 
l)loyed he was legislated out of office three times and 
resigned twice : but on each occasion he was restored 
to office with a better position. This came about, 
not from solicitation on his part, l>ut from the desire 
of the treasury officials to perfect the service, and as 
a reward of merit. The internal-revenue officers of 
the go\ ernment were subjected to subtle temptations 
in those days, and were not always above susjiicion : 



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2:1 1 



so that an olTiccr of Mr. Hawlcy's iKlclity and al)Mi- 
liitc honesty uas (■orrc^|lon(iinJ;ly vahiahli- to the 
treasury (le|)artment. After eijjht years of ser\iie 
in subordinate ca|)acities Mr. Hawley was a|)|X)inted, 
in ls7-'5, supervisor of internal revenue by Pre>ident 
(!rant, and was assijjneil to (hity in New \'ork ( ity, 
with the state of New \'ork as his dis- 
triit. 

The nio.st im|)ortant and interesting; 
|jart of .Mr. Hawley's work as supervisor 
was his agency in the downfall of the 
•• whi.skey ring," the |>opidar name for 
the a.s.soiiation of revenue officers and 
distillers who .so largely defrauded the 
government of the internal revenue on 
distilled spirits. The ring originated in 
St. I.ouis, but extended its nefarious ojjer- 
ations throughout the (ountry. I're>i- 
dent drant and Secretary Hrisloe, how- 
ever, were e(iual to the emergency, and 
on May lit, 1X7"), a simultaneous raid 
was made on the implicated distilleries 
of St. I.ouis, Milwaukee, an<l Chicago. 
.\s a result the government was able to 
bring into court about S:],.")0O,(ltMt worth 
of seized property, and indictments 
against 2."{X persons, including distillers, 
rectifiers, wholesale liijuor dealers, and 
many officers of the internal-revenue 
service. Mr. Hawley was placed in 
charge of the raid at St. I.ouis, and car- 
ried out his end of the movement with 
exceptional vigor and success. In the 
fall of the same year he was sent to the 
Pacific coast, and confirmed the sii- 
picion that a corrupt ring there wa.s 
defrauding the go\ernment. The ring 
was so |)owerfully protectc<l by local 
allies that Secretary Hristoe and his 
faithful supervisor were unable to repeat here their 
St. I.ouis success. In February, lH7(i, Mr. Hawley 
submitted his resignation, but at the reipiest of the 
commissioner of internal revenue remained in office 
until May. He then returned home, i)oor in pocket 
and broken in health, having given some of the best 
years of his life to the service. 

Since then he has engaged in the management of 
individual estates, antl in executive and fiduciary 
work of various kinds. His legal training, broad 
experience, and spotless integrity make him jarticu- 
larlv efficient and valuable in su< h matters. 

PJiRSOXAI. CIIROXOLOG V— Lucia,, 
Hawley was horn al Aforeau, N. Y., Ntn'fmhfr S, 
IS ts : rfffivfil a common- school eilucation, anil loas 



adinittfJ to lilt bar in IS^i ; fn-acticfJ law in Buffalo, 
lfl44-4'' •' '<'<'■>■ appoinUil Jepiity collfctor of customs in 
ISJ^fJ ; was eni^aj^ed in the Unite,! States re-,'eniie 
serrice, 1SG')-1G ; married l,ene Hurt Leech of Buf- 
falo April Vt, IS4S, and LJda \\illia,ns Jen„inf;s of 
Lockport. X. v.. /')ccc,nlicr IS, IS7~ : has ,ni,de his 




1 1 1 1 1\ // III / /.y 

honie in Buffalo since lS7tt, and has heen a resident 
of the city since 18S7. 

CbiirlCS D£. tlflVCS is a meml)er of one of 
the iiuist prominent lilliographii- ((mij^anies in the 
I'nited States. For years the work turned out from 
the establishment of Koerner iV Hayes has eli< ited 
univers;d praise and admiration, and few hou.ses 
have done more to educate |)opular taste in the art of 
illu.stration. The standard of the general |iiiblic in 
such matters is higher now than ever before, and 
bespeaks for the future a race more appreciative of 
the nature and fiinction of pictorial representation. 

Mr. Hayes was horn in t'an.ida of .American (wr- 
ents, and he is an .Vmeriian bv training. His 



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parents were residents of Rochester, N. Y., but 
moved to Steubenville, Ohio, the year Charles was 
born. Mr. Hayes had the benefit of a thorough 
public-school education in the Buckeye State, and 
graduated from the Steubenville High School when 
only seventeen j'ears of age. He .supplemented this 




iHAkl.ES H. //AYES 

scholastic training by a course in the well-known 
business college of Bryant & Stratton at Buffalo. 
Having thus prepared him.self for a commercial 
career, he became a clerk in the office of Drullard & 
Hayes of Buffalo, and filled a position with that firm 
for three years. His next employment was as book- 
keeper for C'osack & Co. , makers of the famous 
" Buffalo Lithograi)hs. ' ' Here he showed such busi- 
ness judgment and skill in managing the affairs of 
the firm that he was eventually placed in charge of 
the office, and of the financial interests of the con- 
cern. The natural result followed, and Mr. Hayes 
became a member of the firm. The other members 
were H. Co.sack and H. T. Koerner. On the death 
of Mr. Cosack in 1M!I2, the firm was reorganized, 



the surviving jjartners buying out Mr. Cosack's inter- 
est, and forming a new partnership under the style 
of Koerner & Hayes. The new firm has continued 
to uphold the reputation, and enjoy the prosperity, of 
the old house. Their factories on Lakeview- ave- 
nue in Buffiilo afford employment to a large number 
of people, from skilled artists and engra- 
vers down to laborers and truckmen. 
The product of their works is found 
everywhere, and has carried the name 
of Koerner & Hayes, not only over 
the United States, but also to foreign 
lands. 

While devoting himself assiduously to 
his private business, Mr. Hayes has been 
a ])otent influence in local political 
affairs. He is a Republican in political 
iielief. His popularity among his fellow- 
townsmen is shown by his strong can- 
didacy for the office of councilman in 
1892, a losing year for his party, when 
he ran ahead of his ticket, and was 
defeated by only forty-five votes. 

In Masonic circles Mr. Hayes occu- 
jjies a prominent place. He is a Knight 
Templar; Junior Warden of Hugh de 
Payens Commandery, No. 30 ; Senior 
Warden of Rose Croix Chapter ; and for 
two years he was ^^'orshipful Master of 
Ancient Landmark Lodge. He is a 
i member of the Westminster Presbyterian 

t ^ Church. 

it PERSONAL CHROXOLOGY— 

» Charles Eugene Hayes was horn at Oak- 

^ lulle, Canada, March 2J^, 1858; was 

educated in the public schools of Steiiben- 
rille, O., an^l Bryant ^^ Stratton' s Busi- 
ness College, Buffalo ; becanic bookkeeper 
for the firm of Cosack &= Co. , Buffalo, 
in 1878, and was admitted to the firm in 1881 ; 
married Carrie Fairchild Spencer of Buffalo October 
11, 18S1 : has been a member of the firm of Koer- 
ner c^" f taxes, successors to Cosack cf Co., since 
1802. 

IFrCDCriCi? 1I-10\VarC» comes of good old New 
England stock. Both his ])arents were horn in Ver- 
mont, and were among the early settlers of Erie 
county. The Green Mountain State, like the rest of 
New lOngland, has furnished many substantial and 
reliable citizens to the Empire State. Any commu- 
nity is fortunate whose early history was determined 
largely by New Englanders. Their enterprise, thrift, 
honest dealing, sense of justice, and devotion to 



MFX OF Xr.ir yORK—lVF-STKKX SFCr/OX 



school and church, have made Iheni everywhere Iml- 
warks of industrious, loyal citizenship. 

Mr. Howard was born at Kast Aurora, Krie 
county. When he wa.s three years old his iwrents 
moved to Klma, and in the district school of this 
little town he received his elementary education. 
He had the usual struggle of boys of limited means 
to obtain a higher education, but he managed to 
overcome various difticulties, and to take a course at 
the .Aurora Academy. .\ college education was be- 
yond his financial reach, and he went to Buffalo and 
read law in the office of Mile .\. Whitney. He 
served a faithful a|)|)renticeshi|) as a law clerk, and 
after gaining a thenretic and ])ractical knowledge of 
legal science he was admitted to the bar l)y the Su- 
jireme Court, when twenty-two years of age. For 
two years after this he practiced alone. Impressed 
with the ability and cajxicity of hiv 
former ( lerk, Mr. Whitney then inviteil 
.\lr. Howard to become his as.sociate. 
The |»artnership was formed, and was 
maintained for several years. Having 
resumed practice alone and continued 
the .s;ime five years, .Mr. Howard as.so- 
c iated himself, in January. IKSS, with 
Myron H. Clark of Elma. becoming 
senior member of the finn of Howard iV 
Clark. This |xirtnershi]) still continues. 

In his chosen profession .Mr. Howard 
has sought solidity of learning in |jartii 
ular branches of the law rather than a 
smattering of the whole field. He has 
steadily gained clientage, and long ago 
|xt.s.sed the uncertain stage in the life of 
everv professional man who begins his 
career without influential lacking. With 
the spirit of a true .American, .Mr. How 
ard has not selfishly confined him.self to 
his office, and wrap(>ed him.self up in the 
gains and rewards of his profession. He 
has given freely of hi;, time and thought 
to ])hilanthro|>ic and church work, and 
the advancement of political morality. 
He is esi)e( iaily devoted to the promo- 
tion and improvement of the Children's 
.\id Societ), commonly known as the 
.Newsboys' and Bootblacks' Home, of 
which he is a trustee and most efficient 
member. For several years he was sec- 
retary of the Buffalo (Orphan .\sylum, 
and ungrudgingly gave many hours of valuable time 
to its affairs. 

Coming of a race nurturetl in Congregationalism, 
Mr. Howard naturallv pos-sessed a predilection for 



the church of his fathers ; and though originally a 
meml)er of the l.afayette Street Presbyterian Church, 
he liecame identified with the First Congregational 
Church of Buffalo at its organization. He w;ls one 
of its charter membei-s, and is now a member of the 
board of trustees. He is deeply interesteil in church 
music, iK'licving that the spirit of worship can lie 
raisetl b\ means of it to higher planes. 

.Mr. Howard's political affiliations have always 
been with the Republican iwrty, of which he is a 
consistent, loyal, anil active memlier. He sincerely 
believes that the welfare of his |>arty means the wel- 
fare of his country. He is not, however, blind to 
the fa< t that all human organi/ati(ms contain many 
imiK-rtections ; and he is an enthusiastic memlier of 
the Ciood Government Club, anil has identified him- 
self with its manv measures for the correction of 




I h-i- III- h-ii K //i>n ik'it 



abuses in municipal government, and for the purifi- 
cation of local |>olitics. .As might l)e inferred from 
the foregoing, he is an active meml>er of the Buffalo 
Kepublican League. 



L'.M 



.UE.X OF XEir VOKh ~}i-Esr/:K\ sect/o\ 



FEjRSOA'A L CHR ONOL O G V— Freder- 
ick Hmvard was born at East Aurora, N. Y. , Sep- 
tember 12, 1855 ; was educated in the district schools 
of Elma and at Aurora Academy : moTed to Buffalo 
in icS'74, and began the study of /aw in 1875 ; was 
admitted to the bar in 1S78 : married Harriet F.liza- 




GEORGI-: //. mCHSOX 



heth Maine of Buffalo October 
ticed la7C' in Buffalo since 1878. 



'■'), 1881 : has prac- 



(BeOriJC 13. flJUtjbSOn is a genuine American, 
anil has the Yankee trait of adapting himself to cir- 
cumstances. He has l)een a worker all his life, and 
when not occupied at one thing has found something 
else to keep him busy. He is a native of western 
New York, and few men have so intimate an ac- 
(]iiaintance with that part of the state as he. His 
early vears were spent in Cattaraugus county, whither 
his parents had moved when he was an infant. His 
boyhood was passed on a farm, and he hired out his 
services to a farmer when most boys enjoy the advan- 
tages of .school life and frecpient holidays. From 



the farm he entered a gun factory. Disliking the 
trade of a gunsmith, he went to work in a woolen 
factory at Gowanda, N. Y., and later at W'attsburg, 
Penn. It was not until he went to Buffalo, in 1850, 
that he was able to attend the public schools regu- 
I'lrly. But he was soon obliged to earn his own 
living again, and this time he entered 
the grocery business, in which he con- 
tinued a number of years. Then he 
spent one year as a clerk in a clothing 
store at Rochester. At this period he 
felt the need of a better education, and 
attended the Normal School at Fredonia 
for one term. 

.\fter his father's death in 18o4, .Mr. 
Hughson returned to Buffalo, and sjjent 
another year in a clothing house. His 
next employment was in the office of 
Howard & Co., the well-known iron 
founders. He maintained his relations 
with this house till 1872, when he 
entered into partnership with Joseph M. 
Blake in the packing-box business. He 
soon sold out his interest, and turned his 
attention to the manufacture of silk hats. 
But Mr. Hughson's versatility was not 
yet exhausted, and he next embarked in 
the carriage and harness business, and 
later in the shoe business. 

So far in life Mr. Hughson had taken 
part in almost every occupation deal- 
ing with the supply of man's bodily 
wants in the way of protection. His 
energies were employed in a new field 
when he became connected with the cele- 
brated Niagara Bakery, then under the 
control of Walter S. ( )vens. Mr. Hugh- 
son next interested himself in the na- 
tional game of baseball, and was chosen 
secretary and trea.surer of the Buffalo Baseball Club. 
When he gave up that he entered the real-estate and 
insurance business, and to-day he is a member of 
the well-known fire-insurance firm of Edward C. 
Roth iS: Co. .As will readily be seen, Mr. Hughson 
is an all-round man ; and in every occupation and 
calling that he has pursued he has made friends, 
from his genial disposition and fidelity to tho.se who 
trusted in his worth. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— George Hiram 
Hughson was born at Gozoanda, Erie county, N. Y. , 
August 1, 18S4 ; was educated in the public schools, 
and in the Normal School at Fredonia, N. Y. ; moved 
to LJuffalo in 1850, and has been actively engaged in 
various commercial pursuits there : married If den 



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AfcLfrotli of Chictv^o April S, J.S'.'t.S', a/i,/ Mrs. Jii/ii-t 
Ffrj^iison of Hiiffiilo .March ■in, ISIU ; has Ixeii rii- 
gaj^ed ill the fire-insurance luisiness at Hiiffalo since 

£&di^t^ ^' 3C\VCtt, mayor of Hiiffalo, was Lorn 
in Michigan somewhat more than fifty years ago. 
His |)arents, John Cotton Jewett and I'riscilla Hoard 
man Jewett, moved to HiifTiilo when he was a lioy, 
and his father estaMished there the luisiness house 
that afterward hciame known as the John I'. Jewcit 
.Manufacturing Co. Mr. Jewett received his earl\ 
education in the pulilic schools of Buffalo : but he 
had a strong aptituile for business life, and was im- 
|>atient to enter u|)on a commercial career. Me 
closed his schoolhooks, therefore, at the age of 
sixteen, and went into his father's establishment. 
This was in 1X()(1. He matle rapid prog- 
ress in aci|uainting himself niinutel> 
with every branch of the business, anil 
he has now for many years been the 
chief guiding hand in controlling the 
destinies of the concern. How efhcient 
his management has been may be seen 
in the fact that the output of Jewett 
refrigerators has enormously ex|>anded, 
until the house has liccome everywhere 
known as one of the t'oremost of the 
country in its line. 

When the Civil War broke oui Mr. 
Jewett was a< tively engaged in the con- 
duct of his business affairs ; but he did 
not hesitate to sacrifice personal interests 
in .ser\'ing the lau.sc of his countr\. 
He joined as a private com|)any C, 74th 
regiment, N. ('•., S. N. Y. Becoming 
second sergeant in .May, l«(i.S, he served 
as such during the cam]«ign that fol- 
loweti I-ee's invasion of Pennsylvania in 
the summer of that year. Returning to 
Bufliilo as first sergeant of his (om|ian\, 
he was commi.ssioned first lieutenani 
June 29, !>(().") ; promoted to the cap- 
taincy .April .'i, lS(i(i : ap|)ointed major 
and inspector of ritle practice of the .'!lst 
brigade .\|)ril 11, 1H77 ; made inspcttor 
of the 14th brigade October !t, 1H7!I : 
ap|)ointed lieutenant colonel and chief 
of staff of the 14th brigade ()< tober l'."). 
1?<X0: and elected brigadier general of 
the «th brigade March •_".•, 1M.S4. 

To his business record and military life Mr. 
Jewett ha.s made in recent years a most important 
addition — a career as a public official. His success 



and prominence in commercial and social circles 
naturally called attention to his eligibility for public 
office : and his name wa.s often considered by |>arty 
managers in connection with the nomination for 
high offices. He did not etiter public life, howexer, 
in an important ca|«;icity until .\larch 1, l«!t4, when 
.Mayor Bishop ap|>ointed him one of the police 
commissioners of Buffalo. He discharged the duties 
of this office vigorously, wisely, and with an eye 
single to the public good. When, therefore, he 
became the Republican nominee for the office of 
mayor of Buffalo, in November, lXtl4, he was elec ted 
by a majority of nearly 1(1,000, the largest ever 
received by a candidate ("or that ofVue. 

Without attempting to consider in detail .Mr. 
Jewett's work in the mayoralty, one may safely 
a.ssert that he has fiilfilled the expectations of his 




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supiKirters, and has justified the faith of his electors. 
Bringing to the office a mind thoroughly discij)lined 
by years of military and business servic e, a character 
impervious to the subtle temptations of power, and 



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an ex])erience finely fitted to prepare him in material 
ways for the work before him, Mayor Jewett could 
not fail to achieve substantial success. As might 
have been expected from his past, he has shown 
singular executive ability in conducting the business 
of his ofifice, and has required similar capacity in all 




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the departments of the city government. Without 
resorting to the petty arts of the demagogue, he has 
at the same time shown himself in various ways a 
vigilant guardian of the public rights. He believes 
in enlarging the sphere of municipal government, or 
at least the sphere of municipal control, to a certain 
extent ; but he would do this in a conservative way, 
and with due regard to vested interests. He has 
been a stanch advocate of civil-service reform, and 
early in the year isiKi made a new classification of 
all the i:ity offices, the marked feature of which was 
the sweejjing extension of the merit system. It is 
now applied to nearly every munici])al jjosition. 

In social life Mayor Jewett has been consjjicuous 
for many years, and has been widely jiopular. Ik- 




has taken high degrees in Masonry, and is a member 
of the Acacia Club, to which only Master Masons 
are eligible. He belongs, also, to the Buffalo Club, 
and to other fraternal and social organizations. 

PERSONAL CHRONOL OGY— Edgar Board- 
man Jewett was horn at Ann Arbor, Mich., Decem- 
ber IJf, 18^3 ; was educated in the Buf- 
falo public schools ; married Elizabeth 
Foster Danforth of Ann Arbor October 
■i, 1865 ; was appointed commissioner of 
police of Buffalo March 1, 189^, and 
elected mayor of the city in A^ovember of 
the same year ; has been president and 
general manager of the John C. Jewett 
Mfg. Co. since January 1, 1885, having 
been connected with the safne since 1860. 

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JfrcDcrick 1kcnC»all has fur fifty 

years watched the city of ' Buffalo grow 
and expand from little more than a vil- 
lage to its present industrial and terri- 
torial limits. During that period he has 
been a ])art of its business and political 
life, and has been at all times a faithful 
guardian of its interests. 

.Mr. Kendall ( omes from a race of 
Vermonters born and bred for genera- 
tions among the rocks and hills of that 
grand old state. He inherited from 
them a love of country, a belief in hon-' 
esty and in the brotherhood of man, a 
s|)irit of industry, a fairness of judgment, 
and a pro|)er toleration of the sentiments 
of others. His father, Jacob W. Ken- 
dall, moved into the western part of 
New York state when the ox cart was 
almost the onlv means of trans|)ortation. 
He settled in the town of Darien, Cene- 
see county, and there Frederick was 
born. The latter's boyhood was spent on his fath- 
er's farm, amid such incidents as befall the pioneer 
everywhere. In tiiose primitive days, when Indians 
and wolves were more numerous than white neigh- 
bors, educational institutions in the country were 
far from what they are now. But Darien was 
not lagging behind her sister towns ; she boasted 
of a brick .schoolhousc, where the font of education 
Mowed for all who came. It was there that Mr. 
Kendall obtained his early book training. 

Farm life in a crude country jjossessed no attrac- 
tions for the young man. The fame of Buffalo was 
heralded abroad. The Krie canal had been built, 
traffic on the lakes was already of great importance, 
and Buffalo was feeling the impetus. Here, then. 



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was the place for the young and the ambitious. 
So Mr. Kendall went to Buffalo, .\fter a short time 
word lame of Ihicago, at the far end of the (Jreai 
l^kes. Mr. Kendall went there. This wa.s in l)<4(i. 
Swam|>s and prairie wolve.s were the < hief sights 
of the plaie in that year, and after four months 
Mr. Kendall returned to BulTalo. He engaged in 
l)usine^s there until 1S4!>, when he moveil to 
Detroit, opening a large hardware and stoxe store. 
Hut HulTalo's attractions were still jiotent, and in 
1N.')1 he returned thither again. Shortly alterwanl 
he opened one of the first exclusively fancy-goods 
stores on Main street, <ontinuing there for a number 
of years, until ill health (ompelle<l his retirement. 

Mr. Kendall has always taken a ileep interest in 
politics, and for years he was active in Repulilican- 
l>arty affairs. When the jKirt of Htiffalo inclu<led 
in the old "id ward was of muc h greater 

importance than it is now, .\lr. Kendall , 

was its rei>resentative on the Itoard of 
supervisors for six years ; and later he 
represented the same district on the 
l>oard of aldermen for two years. In 
both these bodies he was known as a 
worker, and the interests of his constitu- 
ents were never |)ermitted to suffer. 

While .Mr. Kendall was a member of 
the board of aldermen he became con- 
nected with the movement for abolishing 
grade crossings. He was selected as the 
aldermanic member of a joint committee 
representing various interests, tbrmed tor 
ihe pur|X)se of carrying on a warfare 
against the evil from which Buffalo had 
.so greatly suflered. From that joint 
committee an executive committee, of 
which Mr. Kendall was a member, «a^ 
formed to devise measures to accomplisli 
the desired result. Finally, in 1»^«, 
the legislature created the grade-crossing 
commission, and Mr. Kendall was named 
as one of the original commissioners. 
'I'hrough various changes he has remained 
in that body, giving much time and 
thought to the solution of the many 
vexed questions that have ari.sen, persist- 
ent in the face of much opposition, 
determined that the great work should 
go on, and striving to be alwolutely fair 
to all interests concerned. 

Mr. Kendall is a member of Hiram Lodge, No. 
105, F. & A. M., having become a Master Mason 
in 18i;."{. He is also a member of the I'niversalist 
Church of the Messiah. 



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I'ERSOX.I I. C IIROXOL O G V— Frtdtrick 
Kendall was horn at Darifii, \. )'. , January (i, 
IS J.') ; attended district schools : went to Buffalo in 
ISJ^ 7 : <*//i,'i/i,W /'// business in Detroit, ISJ^O-o 1 : 
returned to Buffalo in ISM, and en^'ai^ed in rarious 
mercantile f>ursuits : married F.lsey L. Saunders at 
Buffalo March 44, IS-'t.', : was supen'isor of the old 
id ward oj' Buffalo, 1S7~-7S and 1SSI-S4, and 
alderman of the same icard, 1S87—SS : has been a 
member of the Buffalo grade-crossina; commission since 
it< creation in ISSS. 



CbAClC£> XillllV i> a scion of the old (iennaii 
stiH k that has been .so prominent in the history of 
l'',rie county. His father came with his ])arents as a 
(hild from (lermany in 1H2!I, and settled upon a 
t'arm in Hast lulen. There the faniilv remained, 




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and there Charles I jiny was born twenty years later. 
One of his brothers, who looks back to the same old 
home, is (leorgc H. I .amy. the present sheriff of 
Erie countv. 



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Charles Lamy's early days were those of the 
ordinary farmer's son. He worked on the farm, and 
began going to district school when about six years 
old. At fifteen he left the school, as his parents 
were unable to provide further instruction. Then 
he began work for himself. He entered a grocery 
in Buffalo, and learned the business. He learned it 
well, and in 1874 set up for himself as a grocer. 
He began by paying heavy rent for (piarters at 
Nos. 301-30.J Elk street. Eight years later he 
bought the building, a large four-story brick struc- 
ture. He is now sole owner of the property, does a 
large grocery, flour, and feed business employing 
seven clerks, and is one of the best-known mer- 
chants of South Buffalo. 

-Mr. Lamy gave his grocery undivided attention 
until 18H(), when he became a heavy stockholder 
in the Magnus Beck Brewing Co. He served 
the company as its president for nearly four years. 
During his administration a new brewery was erected, 
at a cost of nearly a quarter of a million dollars, Mr. 
i.amy acting as chairman of the building committee 
until the structure was completed. In 189o he sold 
his stock, and retired from the business. He is 
extensively interested in real estate at the present 
time, not as a .speculator, but as a conservali\e 
investor who believes in Buffalo's future. 

Mr. Lamy's life was merely that of a quiet, pros- 
perous business man until 18!)."!. In that year Buf- 
falo ro.se in revolt against "boss" rule, and to Mr. 
I.amy, who had never been a candidate for political 
preferment, there came a summons to office. He 
received the Re|Hiblican nomination for state senator 
in the 30th district, which comprised various wards 
in the city of Buffalo. He accepted the nomination 
with reluctance, and only from a feeling that such 
was his duty in the existing crisis. The year was 
remarkable in local politics, and one of its most 
striking incidents was the result of the election in 
the 3()th district. In a constituency having a normal 
Democratic majority of 4100, Mr. Lamy, the reform 
candidate, was elected by a jjlurality of !t40. The 
following winter he had the satisfaction of jjressing 
through the legislature to final enactment mea.sures 
that restored to Buffalo her rights of home rule. He 
was the author of other bills of benefit to Buffalo, 
and in 18y.'5 he was unanimously renominated to the 
senate, this time in the new 47th district, and was 
re-elected by a plurality of 3889. In the legislature 
of 18!)f! he was the chairman of the senate committee 
on canals, and a member of two other important com- 
mittees. Among the measures connected with his 
name was that making an appropriation for beginning 
work on the new 74th-regiment armory in Buffalo. 



Mr. Lamy is a member of various societies and 
orders. He is a Mason, and has reached the 32d 
degree in the order. He is a member of St. .Mark's 
Methodist Church. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G Y— Charles Lamy 
was Iwni at East Eden, Erie county, N. Y. , May 7, 
16'4'J .' was educated in the district schools ; went to 
li'ork in a grocery in Buffalo when a boy, and com- 
menced business for himself May 1, 187 4, as a 
grocer; married Magdalena Urban June 10, 1875, 
and Clara B. Demeyer June 10, 1885 : was /resident 
of the Magnus Beck Brnoing Co. for nearly four 
years, retiring from the company in 1895 ; was elected 
to the state senate as a Re/'ublican in 189S, and rcas 
re-elected in 1895. 

(5C0ri)C %. XCWiS is one of the younger law- 
yers of Buffalo, but he has been for some time a 
prominent member of the Erie-county bar. The 
influence and prestige of a family name justly hon- 
ored in legal circles and everywhere respected, 
account in part for his success ; butthechiefcau.se 
must be .sought in his own ability and character as 
developed and tested in years of earnest professional 
endeavor. 

Born in Buffalo four years before the outbreak of 
the Civil War, Mr. Lewis spent his boyhood and 
youth in that city. He prepared for college at the 
Briggs School, Buflalo, entering Yale in the fall of 
187-"). and graduating therefrom with the class of 
'7!l. Ihe superiority of a law school over office 
training in the attainment of legal knowledge is now 
commonly conceded ; but Mr. Lewis had the best 
of reasons for preferring the latter method because 
he had the best of jjractical schools in his father's 
office. Judge Lewis wa.s then at the height of his 
fame as a successful attorney, and his magnificent 
practice brought to his office all the material that a 
student of law could desire. With such a preceptor 
and such a field of study, Mr. Lewis could not fail 
to make ra])id progress, and he was able to obtain 
admittance to the bar in 1881 after devoting to the 
task much less time than is commonly consumed in 
a law .school. 

Mr. Lewis began practice January 1, 1882, with 
his father and Adelbert Moot, under the firm name of 
Lewis, Moot & Lewis. When the senior member of 
the partnership became justice of the Suijreme Court 
of the state on January 1, 1883, and thus withdrew 
from the firm, the remaining partners continued 
their association imdcr the style Lewis & Moot 
until January 1, 1890. On that day Loran L. Lewis, 
Jr., was admitted to the firm, and the old name of 
Lewis, Moot & Lewis was revived. Since September 



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1, 18t)4, George L. Lewis and his brother l.oran have 
practiced together under the style Lewis & Lewis. 

This firm, as might be inferred from its origin 
and history, has been altogether successful, and now 
enjoys a large and growing practice of a very desir- 
able kind, (ieorge L. Lewis rarely apjiears in ((Miri, 
devoting his time to the office [tart of 
the work. Actual litigation in open 
court usually forms a small ])roportion of 
an attorney's labor, and Mr. Lewis is so 
situatetl that he need not take part in 
the contested work of his firm. He ha.s 
been forced by the nature anti e.vtent of 
his practice to acquaint himsclt with all 
branches of the law ; but he has \md 
special attention to the law of real prop- 
erty, and to banking and general cor- 
poration law. This specialization i> 
1 onsistent with his tastes, and is al^i 
desirable because of the fact that a large 
|)art of Lewis \: Lewis's business has to 
do with real-estate titles and transfer>. 
and with corporation afRiirs. 

N'iewing the man rather than the law 
yer for a moment, we may note the fact 
that Mr. Lewis is a great lover of 
horses, and knows their points from .\ 
to Z. For several years he was an 
active member of the Buffalo Polo Club. 
He ha.s long been interested in photog- 
raphy, and has attained much skill in an 
art that is not so eitsy as it seems, it 
only the best results are accepted. His 
mind has a somewhat remarkable me 
chanical bent, and grasps at once the 
es.sential points of a com|)licated ma 
chine. In political belief .Mr. Lewi> 
has always been a Republican, though 
he has not taken a prominent i^art in 
politics. He could hardly be called a clubman, .ns 
his tastes are not such ;ls find satisfaction in the 
routine life of the average club ; but he belongs to 
the I'niversity, Buffalo, l-;ilicott, and Country clubs, 
and h persona )^rii/ii at all of them. 

PKRSOXAL CHROXOI. Od ) —Gnvxe Lrsffi 
Leii'is li'ds Iwrn at Buffalo .\fay -11, IS.'t'i : [^radiiatfil 
from YaU ColUgf in 1S7!) : was adinitUd to tlu har in 
1881 : married NeHie Augusta Sweet of Buffalo May 
■??, /*¥•?.• has f^ratticed law in Buffalo sime ISS.'. 

^lf^C^ Xvtb "i>^ '"It ^i'' years of age when he 
moved to Buffalo from l-ingland with his i>arents. 
The family was in humble circumstances, and no one 
who saw the little lad at that time, in homemade 



clothes of cheap material, could have dreamed that 
before many years he would make his inlluence felt 
in the whole commimity. But he |M)sses.setl a habit 
of industry, and other sterling (pialities that are sure 
to lead to .success, .\ttending school in the winter, 
working at whatever he lould turn his hand to during 





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the other months, and studying evenings the whole 
year round, he reai hed the age of thirteen. It was 
then that his Ailher began in a small wa) the manu- 
facture of sewer and drain tile, hollow brick, and 
an hitectiiral terra cotta. He needed the hel]) of his 
sons, and to this new industry they gave all their time. 
The firm of John Lyth \- .Sons was established l)efore 
the boys were of age, and they began laying tile to 
educate farmers and gardeners to its use. This firm 
was the first in the Inited States to manufacture hoi 
low-clav. fireproof, flat arches and |>artitions, Francis 
Lyth of I'.ngland being the inxentor of the hollow flat 
arch. The struggle was a hard one at first, for dur- 
ing two years not more than fifty dollars' worth of 
tile was sold. The business increased ra(iidly. how- 



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ever, when fairly started, and their plant \va.s for a 
long time one of the most flourishing in Buffalo. 
Branch works were established at Wellsville, Ohio, 
and Angola, N. Y., Alfred Lyth remaining in charge 
of the firm's business in Buffalo. I-'ireproof construc- 
tion has l)een taken up bv the concern, and firejiroof- 




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ing contracts of many of Buffalo's largest buildings 
have been executed by the firm. 

When the Civil War broke out Alfred Lyth was 
under age, and his parents would not con.sent to his 
enlistment under Lincoln's first call for volunteers. 
A few months later, however, he joined the lOOth 
regiment New York volunteers in the field, and went 
directly to the front. At the battle of Drury's Bluff, 
May IG, 1»()4, he was wounded and taken prisoner 
in the morning. In an hour he made his escape, but 
was captured in the afternoon, on the Weldon railroad, 
with two hundred other wounded soldiers. They were 
surrounded by rebel cavalry, and taken to jail at Pet- 
ersburg, Va., afterwards to Andersonville, (la., and 
then to l''l()rence, S. C, where lho\- were paroled and 



released from prison in December, 1»()4. .Mr. Lyth 
received an honorable discharge at the close of the 
war. He afterward enlisted and served, seven years 
in various positions in the 74th regiment, N. (L, S. 
X. v., resigning as major. He is prominent in (Jrand 
.•\rmv affairs, having been many times a delegate to 
state and national encampments, and 
having acted as inspector general of the 
organization for New York state, and 
general in command of the 8th division 
(if the New York State Veterans' parade 
at Washington, D. ('., in the National 
JMicampnient of \X\\'l. 

.V.s a public-spirited citizen .Mr. L\th 
is well known. His services as alderman 
were distinguished by an unswerving 
honesty of purjjose, and his exertions in 
relation to .school matters won for him 
heart) commendation. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY — 
Alfred Lyth was horn at York, England, 
April 21, 18Jf.'i ; moved lo Buffalo in 
1850 ; was educated in the public schools : 
enlisted in the 100th regiment Neic York 
Tolunteers in 1862, and senrd until the 
close of the war : 7i>as a member of the 
7Jf.th regiment, N. G., S. N. Y., 1807- 
7Jf : married Kate Kappler of Buffalo 
December (1, 1809 : jcas supervisor of the 
old 7th ward of Buffalo, 187 2-7 Jf, alder- 
man for the same icard. 188S-86, and 
eivil-ser7'!ce commissioner, 1880-00; has 
been a member of the firm of John Lyth &' 
Sons since 1860: 7Cias elected president of 
the Builders' Exchange, Buffalo, in 1890. 



30l)U a. iflDcCann "as earning his 
own living at the age of thirteen ; he 
was a bookkeeper and cashier at the age 
of si.xteen ; he was in business on his own account 
at twenty ; and he has been a successfid journalist 
since his thirtieth year. The opportunities that 
come to one of versatile and vigorous ai ii\ ity have 
been about the only curriculum in which Mr. 
McCann has been trained : for his .schooling, ob- 
tained in his native town of Batavia, N. Y., was 
confined to the " three R's,'' with the e.vception of 
a course subsequently pursued in a business college. 
Thus e(iuii)])ed, Mr. McCann entered immediately 
upon the responsible duties of bookkeeper antl cashier 
in the firm with which he had previously spent three 
years in a subordinate jiosition. His ambition soon 
led him to seek a larger field, and the following year 
found him em|)loycd by the lirm of Sherman iV Barnes, 



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dry-goods merchants in Hiiffalo. l-'rom this time he 
held positions ranging from clerk to manager in vari- 
ous mercantile firms of that city until iHTd, when he 
moved to Savannah, (la., to embark in business there. 

'I'he means arciuired by years of devotion to bi"isi- 
ne.ss finally enabled Mr. .Mcfann to enter a new fiehl 
of activity whose power and jirestige hail attracted 
him. With .Norman K. .Mack he became joint pro 
prietor of the C^iau/iii/i/i/ii Lake Gazette: and the suc- 
cess of this publication enabled him two years later 
to found (he Jamestown Siinitiiy Le,u/er. While this 
journalistic venture met with immediate favor, .Mr. 
.McC'ann nevertheless desired larger .scope for hisabil- 
itv, and he therefore returned to Buffalo as editor of 
the Buffalo Times. This position he ha^ filled at in- 
tervals since. 

In IHH.') Mr. -McC'ann establisheil the .Wifioini/ 
Coopers' Joiiniiil, a trade publication de- 
voted to the intere.sts of cooperage work 
in all its branches. This venture was 
strikingly successful, and the /rv/'v/i// ha> 
liecome the recognized organ of the 
coolers' trade. .Mr. Mct'ann ha.s been 
owner and editor of this pid>li(ation from 
the beginning. 

While actively engaged in public af 
fairs, as every journalist must be, Mr. 
McC'ann has not aspiretl to political 
leadershi]), but is content to be one of 
the powers behind the throne. He is a 
Democrat on national lines, but he has 
not allowed ipiestions of general publii 
policv to interfere with his political con- 
tluct in local matters. He believes in 
the absolute divorce of national and state 
from local government. 

In addition to his journalistic work, 
other enterjjrises have engaged Mr. Mc 
t'ann's time and attention. In lH,s."), in 
connection with Robert McC'ann, he 
planneil an exposition in Buffalo, which 
was held in the Be< ker building, and 
proved a notable success. i'he plan in- 
cluded the practical exhibition of silk 
weaving, ixi|)er making, Japanese handi 
work, etc. Before the formation of the 
Niagara Falls Power Co. Mr. McC'ann 
.secured from the Ontario coiun il a t har- 
ter for the use of the Canadian side of 
the Ni.igara river and falls t'or the pur- 
))ose of generating jjower. This com|);iny, however, 
h.nd not been lully formed when the charter lajised. 
and the right wa.s granted to the present comiKiny. 
Other enterprises have been carried to success under 



the guidance of .Mr \b('ann, such as the James 
town Bennanent Ixwn and Building .\.s.sociation, 
whose |)ros|K'rity does credit to his organizing skill. 
Mr. McCann is a firm believer in Buffalo and its 
future greatness, and has given substantial evidence 
of this faith b> large and successful reaj-estate 0|jera- 
tions and improvements. His interest in the busi- 
ness has not been exi lusively commen ial, as he hits 
atipiired for himself a handsome resident e in the 
beautiful l'',lniwooil distrii t of Buffalo. 

I'EKSOXAI. CIIROXOr.OaV—John Alex- 
lUiiier .UrCiiini ;i'i7i /ii>rn til /uttiviit, X. )'. , Septem- 
her !), IS't'i: was eiUieated in piihlii schools and a busi- 
ness college: engtigeil in mercantile pursuits, 1866-79 : 
hecame part <>7oner and editor of the ' ' Chautauqua Lake 
Gazette" in ISlf), anil founded the Jamestown "Sun- 
day Leader" in ISNl : married Chloe Anna Doane oj 




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Buffalo September H, ISSU : has been editor of tlie 
ButJalo •• Times" at interrals since ISSi ; founded 
the " Xational Coopers' Journal" in ISS-'t, and has 
been twner and editiir ,<!' the tame since. 



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TKHilllam /IDaCOmbCr has lived in Buffalo 
during the whole of his professional career, and 
through his connection with industrial enterprise has 
identified himself with the progress of the city. 
Born in Clenesee county, New York, less than 
I'ortv vears ago, he began his education in the 




II /I.J.IAM M.K OM/ll-.k 

district schools, which have started so nian\ Ameri- 
can youths on the road to learning. Later he at- 
tended the Cary Collegiate Seminary in his native 
town of Oakfield, and then took a college-prepara- 
tory course at Colgate Academy, Hamilton, N. V. 
He next entered the University of l\o( hesttr, frnm 
which he was graduated in 188.'). 

To a young man of Mr. Macomher'h studious 
temperament and fondness for painstaking investiga- 
tion, a professional life naturally seemed attractive, 
and among the professions the law appealed to him 
most strongly. He began his legal studies in the 
office of the late ^\'illiam S. Oliver of Rochester. 
.\ little later he moved to Buffalo, and completed his 
course there in the offi<e of Lewis iV Moot. 



In January, 1887, Mr. .Macomber was admitted to 
the bar, and in the following March he opened a law 
office alone, and began the somewhat tedious process 
of building up a clientage. Possessed of natural 
mechanical ability, and considerably experienced in 
machine-shop practice, Mr. Macomber had from the 
beginning a special fondness for the sub- 
ject of patent law : and he soon decided 
that it would be both agreeable and 
profitable to devote his attention to this 
>|)ecialty. In 1889, therefore, he asso- 
ciated with himself as Washington coun- 
sel (leneral E. M. Marble and Robert 
.\Ia.son, both of whom were widely ex- 
perienced in patent law. Since then 
.Mr. Macomber has confined his practice 
to this branch of his profession, and has 
already become a recognized authority 
oil the subject. Since 1893 his \\'ash- 
ington associate has been John S. Barker. 
The law of patents is exceedingly 
intricate and confusing, but Mr. Ma- 
comber's acquaintance with the subject 
is at once minute and extensive. For 
the past six years he has been collecting 
material for a text-book upon patents 
and the patent law. His plan involves 
a detailed .study of every enactment re- 
lating to the subject on the statute books 
of the land, and of every ca.se involving 
such questions reported since the organ- 
ization of the American patent system. 
Such an exhaustive treatment of the sub- 
ject requires long and careful prepara- 
tion, and it will be some time yet before 
the work is ready for publication. 

Mr. Macomber is lecturer on the sub- 
jects of ])atent law and trade-marks in 
the Buffalo Law School. He is a careful 
student of economics, and of the complicated prob- 
lems in\olved in the production and exchange of 
(ommodities in the L'nited States. He has jnib- 
lished a number of e.s.says on such subjects in dif- 
ferent magazines and political-science publications. 
While he takes scant interest in party politics, his 
1 (intiniied study of history And economics gives him 
a peculiar interest in the ])roblems of government. 
He is a jjersistent advocate of honest money, of home 
rule, and of civil-.service reform. 

.\Ir. .Macomber is a member of Alpha Delta 
Phi college fraternity, of the .\merican Economic 
-A.ssociation, and of the .\merican Institute of Civics. 
.'\mong local organizations he belongs to the Liberal 
Club, the Cood Crovernment Club, and the I'undit 



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Club ; and he is a member of the Delaware Avenue 
Baptist Church. 

PERSONAL CIIR O.XOL O G Y— William 
Macomber tvas born al Oakfield, N. Y., Nm'ember J,, 
1S;')7 ; was educated in various (<reparalory schools, and 
at the University of Rochester, from which he X''adu- 
ated in ISSii ; was admitted to the bar at lUiffalo 
in January, 1887: married Au^'usta S. Woodruff oj 
Hamilton, N. Y., May IS, 1887; has f<racticed law 
in Buffalo since 1887. 

XOUtiJ jfranlUlU /IDCt^t^Cr, prominent at the 
liar ol' liulTalu, hi> iuUi\c iii), spent his boyhood on 
a farm, and obtained his early education in district 
schools. Subsei|uently he completed the public- 
school course in Buffalo, and in IM"?* entered Co- 
lumbia College, New York city. There he took the 
complete lourse in the schools of arts 
and of political science, and grailuated 
in 1882 with the degree of Ph. B. He 
was an earnest student, and possessed 
much literary ability, as is shown by the 
fact that for two successive years he tric<l 
for and captured the much <ovetcil 
I'heilolexian prize for essiiy writing. 

While yet in college Mr. Me.sser de 
icrmined to make the legal jjrofession 
his lite-work ; and accordingly during; 
his senior year he availed himself of tiic 
privileges of the Columbia Ijw School, 
where he attended the lectures of the 
learned I'heodore W. Dwight and John 
V. Dillon. Immediately after his grad- 
uation he entered the law office of James 
A. Roberts of Buffalo as a student, an<l 
in 1884 was admitted to the liar at 
Rochester. 

Mr. Mes-ser's professional career has 
been singularly free from changes in the 
matter of business connections. His 
preceptor, Mr. Roberts, foreseeing the 
success that awaited Mr. Me.sser as a 
lawyer, took him into jKirtnership when 
he was first admitted to the bar, and the 
connection has lasted ever since. The 
clientage of the firm has steadily in- 
creased, and the large amount of business 
committed to its charge has made it 
necessary, from time to time, to take 
in new partners. The present style is 
Roberts, Becker, .\shley, Mcsser iV ()r<utt, and the 
firm is known throughout western New York as one 
of the strongest and most successful in that jKirt ol 
the stale. 



Much of the business of the firm is connected with 
real estate, and from the first Mr. Mcs.ser has made a 
specialty of this branch of the law. His experience 
ill the examination of titles to real property led him 
to appreciate the advantages of a system of abstract- 
ing more nearly perfect and complete than any 
hitherto existent ; an<l in iNitl he organized the Krie 
County (iuaranteed .Search Co., one of the first title 
com|)anies in Biiflalo. ( )f this company he was one 
of the original incorporators, and has been president 
from the beginning. He devotes much time to the 
supervision of its affairs, while still taking an active 
jMirt in the work of the legal firm with which he is 
connected. 

Seeing the ad\antage to any city of a thriving 
suburban jiopulation, .Mr. Me.sser for several years 
has been largely interested in various jirojects for 




t.oris IK i\Ki./\ \ti:ssi:K 

the improvement of the outlying districts of Buffalo. 
He is a ilirecior and sei retary ui the Bellevue I^nd 
\: Improvement Co., and holds similar offices in 
ihe Buffalo, Bellevue iV l.inca.sler Railway Co. 



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In his private and social life Mr. Messer is a fine 
type of the cultured gentleman. .Mthough his many 
business and professional duties leave him scant 
leisure for purely literary or artistic pursuits, he has 
the tastes of a scholar and a connoisseur. His fond- 
ness for literature is not confined to the English 
tongue nor to the present day. Jhe ancient Latin 
and Greek classics, and the modern writings of 
French, Clerman, and Italian authors, all claim a 
share of his attention. His favorite subjects are 
history anfl biagra|)hy, the lives of nations and the 
lives of individuals ; for he agrees with Pope that 
"the proper study of mankind is man." Mr. Messer 
is also a warm lover of the fine arts, and is a Fellow 
of the Buffalo Society of Artists. His club life con- 
sists of membershi]) in the lUiffalo and University 
clubs. He is a life member of the Bufl'alo Rei>ub- 
lican League. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Louis Franklin 
Messer -ivas born at Buffalo Feluuary 7, 1S56 ; gradu- 
ated from Columbia College in 1882, and taas admitted 
to the bar in 188 Jf : organized the Erie County Guaran- 
teed Search Co. in 1891, and has been president thereof 
since : has practiced law in Buffalo since 188. 'f . 



XUilliam 3- /IDOrijan has been active in his 
country'^ service ever since he put aside his 
schoolbooks in the hour of the country's need, 
and became a volunteer soldier in the \Var of the 
Rebellion. 

Born in Canada somewhat more than fifty years ago, 
Mr. Morgan was taken to Buffalo in his tenth year, 
and has lived there ever sin<e. He was a senior in 
the Central High School, pre|)aring for college, 
when the outbreak of the Civil War cau.sed a change 
in his plans. He enli.sted in the 1 Uith New York 
volunteer infantry as a private, serving until the 
close of the war, and receiving successive promo- 
tions, for attention to duty and meritorious conduct, 
through the subordinate ranks to that of captain. He 
participated in all the battles in which his regiment 
took part, including that of Cedar Creek, where 
General .Sheridan, liy his famous ride from Winches- 
ter and his wonderful influence over his men, 
changed a terrible defeat into a glorious victory. 
In the attack on Port Hud.son May 27, 1863, Mr. 
.Morgan led the fascine carriers, who formed the 
advance of the assaulting column, composed of 
volunteers for the desperate undertaking, and was 
wounded four times. 

.\t the close of the war Captain .Morgan, with 
several other retiring officers, engaged in the customs 
service, with a view to breaking up a desperate gang 
of smugglers that had overrun the northern frontier 



and were delying the customs officials. In this work 
he had several combats (juite as dangerous as any 
ex|)erienced during the war; and in one of them he 
was seriously injured, coming to so close quarters 
with his adversary that his clothes were set on fire 
by the discharge of the smuggler's weapon. 

In 180!) -Mr. Morgan joined the forces of the 
Buffalo Commercial Adi'crtiser, and for twenty years 
served on its editorial staff. During the railroatl 
riots of 1.S77, when the police and militia of Buffalo 
failed to maintain order, the veterans of the late war 
volunteered their services, and Captain Morgan wa.s 
elected their commander. The presence of this 
brave and e.xperienced body of men under arms did 
much to prevent in Buffalo the destructive .scenes 
enacted elsewhere during the same riotous period. 

In 1880 Mr. Morgan was appointed canal appraiser 
by Governor Cornell, and was elected chairman of 
the board by his a.ssociates. The record of this 
board during their three and a half years of service 
was so free from the scandal that had attached to 
.some preceding boards that the governor, in his 
last message to the legislature, complimented them 
for the care with which they had kept their impor- 
tant trust, and guarded the interests committed to 
them. Mr. Morgan was made collector of customs 
for the district of Buffalo Creek in 188i), and held 
the i)osition for over tour vears, making one of the 
best collectors the port ever had. 

In januar\ , lcS!l4, Comptroller James .\. Roberts 
appointed Mr. Morgan to the responsible position of 
deputv state comptroller, which he still fills. How 
faithfully he has dischargeil its duties may be judged 
from the following e.vtract from the comptroller's 
re])ort for the ^ ear IcSD.l : -'In \iew of my recent 
protracted illness and long absence from official 
duty, 1 desire thus publicly to expre.ss my ap|)recia- 
tion and recognition of the .satisfactory manner in 
which my able and efficient deputy, Colonel William 
J. Morgan, performed the very responsible and labo- 
rious work of this department." 

.Mr. .Morgan has taken great interest in all meas- 
ures for enhancing the |>rosperity of the city of 
Buffalo, in whose future greatness he has always been 
a firm believer. He was one of the original ))ro- 
moters of the Buffalo <!>>: Jamestown railroad, now 
the Buffalo iS: Southwestern. He took an active part 
for years in the Commercial Union, an organization 
formed for the purpose of freeing the canals from 
tolls and securing their improvement, and ]jrodiictivc 
of great good to the canal commerce of Buffalo. 
He has been secretary of the Buffalo grade-crossing 
commission from the beginning, and has taken a 
prominent part in its important work. 



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Mr. Morgan is a member ol' t^uccii City Lodge, 
1'. & A. M., and Keystone (.'haptcr, k. A. M., as 
well as William Richardson Post, (\. A. R.,and the 
Military Order of the Loyal Legion. He belongs 
to the BnfTalo and Kllicott dubs, HiifTalo, the Albany 
Club, Albany, and the Knickerboi kcr Club of New 
York lity. He is a member of the 
Riihmond Avenue Methodist Chun h of 
liulTalo. 

PERSOXAl. CHROXOLOGY — 
W'illuim /limes Mi»xtjn was horn near 
PeUrhoro, Canada, Ocfoher Hi, ISlfi : 
mm'ed to /iiiffa/o in ISiil), ami Jcas fi/u- 
eateil in llie f<ul>lic schools /here : senrJ 
in the Union army, 1SiJJ-(j''> : married 
.\fary C. Reese of Buffalo Se/>temfier V-i, 
ISdft ; ivas on the editorial staff of the 
Buffalo ' ' Commercial Advertiser, ' ' ISH!)- 
S!> : loas appointed canal appraiser in 
1S80. and collector of customs for the dis- 
trict of Buffalo Creek in ISSO ; has been 
deputy state comptroller since January, 



E^^mm^ Sjiuc? DMumlcv, iinr 

ing ilu- tuciii) ixlil \i;.M.-. iliat he has 
prartiied law in Huffalo, has devoted the 
energies of an able and a vigorous mind 
unremittingly to his profession, and has 
attaine<l no slight degree of distinction 
therein. 

.Mr. I'lumley was born in Seneca 
county, New \'ork, rather more than 
fifty years ago. .Mtcr the usual prelim 
inary training in district .schools, at the 
age of fifteen he entered Middlebury 
.\cademy, Wyoming, N. \'., where he 
studied for one year. He then toni- 
pleted his preparatory studies at Cenesee 
Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, .\. Y., and afterward 
s|)ent two years at (ienesee College, now .Syracuse 
University. His ambition for a full college course, 
however, was not to lie gratil'ied. More than once 
he had been obliged to interrupt his stutlies and 
spend a short time in teaching, in order to obtain 
the means for further study ; and after completing his 
.sophomore year he was compelled to leave college. 

During the next few years Mr. I'lumley taught in 
different public and private schools ; and finally, in 
the spring of lH(iX, he entered the law office of 
Hiram C. Day of HulTalo as a student, thus tulfdiing 
a long-cherished purpose. He remaineii with Mr. 
Day four years, during which he wa.s duly admitteti 
to the bar. In I'cbruarv, \x~'l. he received an 



un.soliciteil and wholly unexpected apiMjintment as 
de|)uty city clerk, and for three years he faithfully 
discharged the duties of this position. 

In March, IS?'), Mr. I'lumley retired from the 
city clerk's office, and .n.s,sociated himself with L. C. 
Robbins in the law firm of Robbins \- I'lunilev. thus 




lieginning the practice of his profe.ssion. Since the 
dis.solution of this partnership in 1K77, .Mr. I'lumlev 
has been a.N.sociated with William M. Hawkins in the 
firm of Hawkin.s i\: I'lumley, afterwards enlarged by 
the admission of Clinton H. (libbs, and known as 
Hawkins, I'lumley S: Ciibbs ; and with (ieorge L. 
Kingston in the hriii of I'lumley & Kingston. On 
May 1, \x\^. he formed a |)artnership with Irving 
W. Cole, under the name of I'lumley iV Cole, which 
still exists. During all these years Mr. I'lumley's 
|iractice has steadily increased, and he has established 
a reputation for legal aliility an<l devotion to the 
interests of his clients that any man might be proud 
to po.s.sess. This success has been fairly won, for he 
has devoted himself whollv to his |)rofession. 



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With the exception of his three years' service as 
deputy city clerk, Mr. Phimley has never held a 
political office. Yet he maintains an active interest 
in public affairs, and is willing to give both time 
and talent to promote the \s'elfare of the community. 
This fact was abundantly proved by the active jsart 




/iDAflW/) j.i\/-:s I'lAMr.HV 

that he took, several years ago, in the investigation 
of the condition of the school department of Buffalo. 
This investigation resulted at once in the establish- 
ment of the present examining board, to decide on 
the qualifications of candidates for teachers in the 
public schools of the city, and in the creation of a 
strong sentiment favoring a municipal board of edu- 
cation. 

Mr. Plumley was one of the charter members of 
the First Congregational Church of Buffalo. This 
church was organized in 1S80, and he has acted as 
clerk of its board of trustees for fifteen years. He 
is also a Ma.son, holding membership in (^ueen City 
Lodge, No. 358, of Buffalo. Mr. Plumley jjossesses 
the tastes of a student, and has read widely and 



thought deeply. Literature and general history are 
es])eciallv congenial to him, and he has devoted 
some attention to theological ijuestions. This latter 
taste he inherits, no doubt, from his father, the Rev. 
Albert Plumley, who was for nearly forty-five years 
a well -known Methodist clergyman in western New 
York. Mr. Plumley has written a num- 
ber of poems that have been published, 
and that evince no small amount of lit- 
erary ability. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— 
Kd)iiniid Janes Plumley 7i'as horn at 
Ciinoga, Seneca county, N. Y. , October 7, 
18Jf5 ; attended Genesee IVesleyan Semi- 
nary, Lima, N. Y., and Genesee College 
( noio Syracuse University^ ; taught school 
at intervals, 1863-08 : was admitted to 
the liar in 187 1 ; married Flora Ella 
Crandall of Buffalo July !), 187 If : was 
deputy city clerk of Buffalo, 1872-7i) ; 
has practiced law in Buffalo since 1875. 



mtUiam Marrcu potter long 

ago obtained a place in the front rank of 
the medical profession ; and he has since 
strengthened his position by skill and 
judgment as a surgeon, by acumen and 
originality a.s a student of medical science, 
by accuracy and depth as a writer on 
medical subjects. His career was fore- 
shadowed, as to its success and the line 
of achievement, by his lineage, since his 
lather, his grandfather, and his great- 
grandfather, not to mention collateral 
issue, were all distinguished physicians. 

Dr. Potter was born in what is now 
Wyoming county, on the last day of the 
year 1838. His preparatory studies 
were carried on in private schools, at 
Arcade ( N. Y. ) Seminary, and at Genesee Sem- 
inary and College, at Lima, N. Y. His medical 
education was obtained at Buffalo University Medical 
College, from which he graduated in February, 
1859. In the spring of that year he formed a part- 
nership for the practice of medicine with his uncle, 
Dr. M. F:. Potter, of Cowlesvillc, N. V. 

The Civil War broke out two years after this, and 
Ur. Potter made haste to offer his services to the 
government. He passed the examination of the 
army board at Albany a icw days after Fort Sumter 
was taken, and in the summer of 1861 was com- 
missioned by (Governor Morgan assistant surgeon of 
the 49th regiment New York volunteers. Colonel 
D. D. Bidwxll, which he had helped to organize in 



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Kuffaiu. He accomiwnicd this regiment throughout 
its early eventful career with the Army of the 
Potomac , during the peninsular iam|Kiign, under 
McClellan in Maryland, and under Burnside in the 
Krederickshurg disaster. Left in charge of wountled 
soldiers while the army was retreating to Harrison's 
l.anding, Dr. Potter fell into the hand> of the enemy 
in June, lM(i2, and had an interesting interview with 
the redoubtable "Stonewall" Jackson. He was 
1 onfmed in I.ihhv jirison, hut was relea.sed among 
the first exi hanges. and rejoined his regiment after 
an absence of only three weeks. In December, ISd'J, 
after the battle of Fredericksburg, he was promoted 
to the rank of surgeon, and .served with the -ITth 
regiment New York volunteers during the C"han<ei- 
lorsville and (lettysburg campaigns. Soon after the 
liattle of (lettysburg he was a.ssigned to the charge 
of the 1st division hospital, 'lA army 
cor|>s, and continued upon that duty 
until mustereil out of service with his 
regiment at the close of the war. He 
was brevetted by the President of the 
Inited States, for faithful and meritori- 
ous service, lieutenant colonel of L'niteil 
States volunteers ; and by the governor 
of New York state, for like rea.sons, 
lieutenant colonel of New York volun- 
teers. 

Returning to civil life, Dr. Potter 
followed his profession at Hatavia, Gen- 
esee county, for a time, but soon re- 
turned to Buffalo, where he ha.s since 
resided. His professional taste, culti- 
vated largely by a.ssociation with his 
father, who was also his preceptor, early 
led him into the field of surgery, and he 
has performed many of the more impor- 
tant operations in both military and civil 
practice. Of late years he has given his 
entire attention to the treatment of the 
disea.ses of women, and has jjerfonued 
many difficult oiierations in the ilepart 
ments of gynecic, pelvic, and abdominal 
surgery. 

Dr. Potter belongs to many profes 
sional societies, in accordance with this 
incomplete statement : |)ermanent mem 
ber of the American Medical .\ssociation 
in 1878, and chairman of its section of 
obstetrics and diseases of women in 
1890; permanent member of the Medical Society 
of the State of New York, and its president in 
1891 ; member of the Medical Society of Krie 
t'ountv. and its [iresident in 1S9.S: member of the 



Buffalo Medical and Surgical As.sociation, and its 
|)Tesident in 1MK(>; president of the Buffalo Obstet- 
rical Society, lH)S-J-h(i ; .secretary of the .American 
.\s.sociation of Obstetricians and gynecologists since 
1XK«; president of the section of gynecology and 
abdominal surgery of the first l'an-.\merican Medi- 
cal Congress in 1H!»;5. He is examiner in olistetrics 
lor the New York sLite examining and licensing 
board ; president of the national confederation of 
slate medical examining and licensing boards ; con- 
sulting gynecologist at the Women's Hospital, 
Muffitlo : and a comijanion of the .Military Order of 
the I.oyal Legion of the L'nited States. 

Dr. Potter has been a voluminous contributor to 
medical literature, and a list of his writings would 
.Miggest by its length the Homeric catalogue of Nhip>. 
Since Julv. IXHS, he h.is been managing editor of 




Wn.l.lAM \\AKRI-.\ I'OTTEk' 

the Buffalo Mctiiiil Journal. He also edits the 
annual volume of Transactions of the .\merican 
.•\s.sociation of Obstetricians and Oynecologists. 
and is the author of the historv of the medical 



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profession and its institutions, as related to Erie 
county, in "Our County and Its People." 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— William 
Warren Potter 7vas boni at Strykersvillc, N. Y., 
December 31, 1838 ; was educated at Arcade Semi- 
nary, and Genesee Seminary and C(dle>^e, Lima, N^. Y. : 




HDWAKIl <\ RAM). ILL 

graduated from the Buffalo University Medical College 
in 1859; married Emily A. Bostwick of Lancaster, 
N. Y. , March 23, 1859 ; engaged in the practice of 
medicine at Cozolesville, N'. Y. , 1859-61 ; seiTed as a 
surgeon in the Union army, 1861-65 : has folloiced 
his profession in Buffalo since 1866. 



E^Warb G. 1Ran^aIl has impressed himself 
upon the (x)mminiii\ in uhich he lives as a man of 
unusual force and energy. He is a well-known 
lawyer, and since his admi.ssion to the bar thirteen 
years ago he has figured as counsel in many imjjor- 
tant legal controversies. He is still so young that the 
success already achieved may fairly be regarded as the 
forerunner of continued and higher achievements. 



Mr. Randall was born thirty-si.\ years ago in the 
town of Rijjley, N. Y., and had the usual experience 
of a country boy seeking a liberal education. He 
received his preliminary training in the district 
school and academy of his native place, and was 
prepared for college under private tuition. He 
]jursued his classical studies at Allegheny 
College, Meadville, Penn. In 1879 he 
entered the office of Morris & Lambert 
at Fredonia, N. Y., and commenced a 
course of legal stud)-. He subsequently 
moved to Dunkirk, and completed his 
preparation for the bar in the office of 
Holt & Holt. After four years spent in 
mastering the theory and practice of the 
law, Mr. Randall was admitted to the 
bar by the Supreme Court April ;>, 1883, 
at Rochester. He at once opened an 
office in Dunkirk, and met with unusual 
success from the start. The professional 
field there was limited, however, and 
he decided to seek a larger sphere of 
labor. Turning over his office and busi- 
ness to Eugene Cary, a local attorney, 
in the fall of 1884 he moved to Buffalo, 
in whose future growth and development 
he had great faith, and formed a partner- 
shij) «ith Joseph P. Carr, under the firm 
name of Carr & Randall. Mr. Carr 
retired from the profession two years 
later, and Mr. Randall continued to 
practice alone for the ne.xt ten yeans. 
He formed a ]3artnership with Jeremiah 
J. Hurley on January 1, 189(i, becoming 
senior member of the firm of Randall i\: 
Hurley. 

Mr. Randall first became prominent 
in Buffalo for his celebrated defense of 
Erank Curcio, who was tried for murder 
in l8f<7. For five years Mr. Randall was coun.sel 
for the receivers of the Tonawanda Valley & Cuba 
railroad : and he acted in a similar capacity for the 
supply creditors of the New York. Lake Erie & 
Western railroad, and participated in the reorgan- 
ization of that company. 

In politics Mr. Randall has been an acti\c Repub- 
lican. .V graceful and an earnest speaker, he has 
taken the stump in behalf of his party in the various 
campaigns of the last twelve years. ■■ He has never 
accei)ted a nomination for political office, ])referring 
to devote his entire attention to the building up of a 
legal clientage. Believing in the great destiny in 
.store for Buffalo^ he has invested largely and success- 
fiilly in real estate in that city. He is a loyal citizen, 



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interested in many chariiies, and an earnest promoter 
of every measure that tends to the permanent wellare 
of the Queen City. He is a member of the Masonic 
order, and is widely known in social circles. 

PERSONA I. CUR 0.\0L OG Y—E.hfard CaM> 
Randall 7oas liorn at Ripley, Chaiitaiii/ua tounty, 
X. v., July lHy 1S60 ; Ji'as educated at Ripley Acad- 
emy and Allegheny College ; studied law at Fredonia 
and Dunkirk, and teas admitted to the bar at Roches- 
ter in ISS-i : has practiced law in Ruffalo since 188 J,. 



^^Olpb ■IRCb^^O^V «as liorn in Buffalo in the 
year of LiiKuln ^ lirst election as I'resident, and 
has always lived in the Queen City of the l.;ikes. 
His eihuatiou was obtained chieny in the common 
schools, and even these he left at an early age. 
He made up for the lack of academic training, 
liowever, by self-instruction. For sev- 
eral years he worked in the Crosvenor 
Library, Buffalo, and his exijcrience there 
fitted him to enter upon the study of law. 

Mr. Rebadow ilecided as early as \\\> 
eighteenth year what his life-work was 
to be. and he began at that age the 
great task of learning la«. Kntering the 
office of .Marshall, CMinton \- Wilson a> 
a student, he jw.ssed the l)ar examina- 
tions in three years. He began practiic 
at once, opening an office in the .\nieri- 
can block, Buffalo. 

.\fter carrying on hi.s ijrofoMon alone 
for abiiut four years, he a.ssoc iated him- 
self, in IMS."), with (leorge I'. (Juinby 
and Willis H. .Meads, under the firm 
name of (,)uinby. Meads iV Kebadow. 
This partnershi]) was altogether suc<es.s- 
ful, and the firm conducted a large 
practice for u|)wards of eight years, or 
until the fall of l«lt.!. .\i that time .Mr. 
Rebadow returned to his old preceptors, 
I'harles 1). Marshall and Spencer Clin 
tun, forming with them the present firm 
of Marshall, Clinton \: Rebadow. .As 
Me.ssrs. Marshall and Clinton are \eteran 
members of the Krie-county bar, and 
two of the strongest and most inlluentiai 
lawyers u{ western New N'ork, their 
invitation to the younger man to ally 
himself with them must be regarded as 
highly complimentary to Mr. Rebadow's 
legal cajwciiy. He has fulfilled their expectations, 
and has done his |)art in conducting successfully the 
large and important practice with which the new firm 
ha.s been favored. The numerous clients of the firm 



display the same confidence in .Mr. Rebadow that 
.Mr. Marshall and Mr. Clinton continue to exhibit. 
For so young a man, Mr. Rebadow has appeared 
in many important trials before juries. Few men 
of his years, in fact, have c ondu( ted so many 
momentous cases in the .Appellate Division, the 
Court of .Appeals, and the Circuit Court of the 
Cnited States ; and the results have been such as to 
justify the confidence rejxjsed in him by his clients 
anil his |)artners. (Juick, alert, persuasive, ever the 
ailvocatc when his clients' interests are involved, 
Mr. Rebadow has attained before juries and judges 
a degree of success that is easy to understand. Per- 
sonally he is very likable, and his genial, vivacious 
temperament entlears him to a host of friends. 

J'ER SOX A L CUR OX OI.OGY— Adolph 
Rebadotv rvas horn at Buffalo June >,, 1800: was 




Uini.f/I KHIl ituin 



educated in the puhlic schixds oj the city : studied hnu 
in the office of Marshall, Clinton &• Wilson, anJ was 
admitted to the bar in June. I8S1 : has practiced 
law in Buffalo since. 



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MKX ()/■' .\7-:\r ivvv'A" irKS7KA'.\ s/-:cv7i>.y 



305Cpb IP. SCbattUCU i^^ a genuine IJuna- 
Ionian. He was horn and educated in that city, 
and all his business interests are connected with it. 
In the thirty-odd years of his career he has seen the 
place attain an enviable ])rominence in the great 
sisterhood of" .\merican cities, and more tlian fulfill 




JOSEPH /'. scHA rr\h:n 

the ardent prophecies of its founders. In 1?S.")9, the 
year of his birth, Buffalo was in the midst of the 
hard times following the panic; of 1857. This 
interruption of the prosperity hitherto characteristic 
of the growing city since the cra,sh of 1837, had 
been caused by speculation and general financial 
recklessness, with inflation and dejjreciation of the 
currency. The acme was reached when specie ])ay- 
ments were suspended. The banks succumbed, real 
estate sank until it was said " the whole town was not 
worth a dollar," and numberless failures followed. 
The financial stringency that prevailed was over- 
shadowed by the greater anxiety of approaching war. 
Mr. Schattner's parents were among the many 
sufferers from this depression, and were unable to 



gi\e him more than a few years at .school before 
he was thrown upon his own resources. He attended 
.St. Mary's Roman Catholic School until the age 
of twelve, and then entered the employ of Abram 
Bartholomew, a Buffalo lawyer, as office boy. Amid 
the law l)ooks and the legal atmosphere of the office, 
the young lad soon became ambitious to 
practice law. This proved to be no mere 
air castle. In due time he became a stu- 
dent in the same office where he had 
served in the humbler cajiacity, and at 
the age of twenty-one he was admitted 
to the bar. He has practiced in Buffalo 
e\er since, and is counted among the 
most successful lawvers of the city, with 
a clientage that few men of his age can 
boast. 

I'hc brewing and malting business is 
one of the oldest interests of Buffalo. 
Since the time when the thiril (lerman 
settler built a brewery, and gave his 
neighbors the first taste of their favorite 
beverage made at home, the industry 
lias grown steadily, and has now reached 
enormous pro|jortions. The situation of 
the city, in the center of a large barley- 
growing district, is favorable to the man- 
ufacture. Among the largest establish- 
ments is the ])lant of the Broadway 
Brewing \- Mailing Co. Mr. Schattner 
was one of the charter members of this 
concern, and is its secretary and attor- 
ney. In the eight years of its exist- 
ence the output has increased from 
10,000 to 25,000 barrels a year. The 
capital stock is $100,000, while the 
assets are .«;.S()fl.0n0. and llie liabilities 
$125,000. 

Mr. Schattner has also been for several 
years .secretary of the Erie County Natural (las & 
Fuel Co., Limited. This company was organized 
in iSill with a capital stock of 8500,000. It has 
a franchise of the entire city, and has piped about 
fort) miles of streets. The gas is obtained from 
wells in Canada, and is conducted across the river 
by two pipes. 

Mr. Schattner was nominated on the Uemocratit 
ticket as a delegate to the constitutional convention 
of 1894, but he .shared the fate of his party that 
year. He is a member of the Democratic state 
cominittee from the 48th senatorial district, and is 
I)rominent in the councils of his party. He is a 
member of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, and 
belongs to the Catholic Benevolent League. 



Ml:\ (>/■ Xhlf IV'A'A— //7:.s/A'A'.\' \A(7/<>.\' 



:!7I 



PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Joicph Pfln 
Scfiattner was born at Buffiilo August .5, 18-'}.) ; was 
fducateJ at St. Mary's Roman Catholic School: 
stuJifil law III the office of Abram Bartholomeiv, and 
was aJmittfit to the bar in ISSJ : has been secretary 
of the Broaihvay Breioini^ &• Ma/tin:; Co. since ISfii!, 
an J oj the Erie County Natural Gas &' Fuel Co., 
Limited, since ISO.i .■ has practiced law in Riiffalo 
since Ififtl. 

HUCU ID. Scott 'I'l** I'ecn ;i ra< tor lor man\ 
years in the affairs of western Nc« York, and es- 
|ie(ialiy of I-'.rie and Cattaraugus lounties. He was 
liorn not far from the lioundary l)etween the two 
counties, in Andrew Jackson's first administration. 
His education was threefold, consisting of scholasti( 
training in various institutions, of teaching in the 
public schools (not the least part of any 
man's education), and of legal stud\. 
First attending the district school in the 
town of Otto, Cattaraugus county, he 
continued his studies at the old Spring- 
\ille Academy, and completed them at 
Lima, N. V. After teaching the pub- 
lic school at Kllicottville, Cattaraugus 
county, in I'^o.'i, he read law for several 
years, and was admitted to the bar in 
IMo;. 

Mr. Scott commenced practice at once 
in Kllicottville. His first j>artnershii) 
was fomietl with Judge Nelson Cobb, 
under the firm name of Cobb iS: Scoti. 
.\fler Judge Cobb went to Kansa,s, Mr. 
Scott practiced with Patrick H. Jones 
until the latter went into the army in 
IMlil. Mr. Scott then as,sociated him- 
self with .\ddison (1. Rice, and con- 
tinued with him until 18(i8, when Mr. 
Rice moved to New York city. William 
(i. I^idlaw, afterward district attorne\ 
of Cattaraugus count) and member of 
congress, was Mr. Scott's ne.xt [jartner. 
Scott, I.aidlaw &: McVey and Scott. 
I^idlaw \- McNair were later assoria 
tions. 

This brief summary of .Mr. Scott's 
(lartnership connections has taken us past 
.some important events in his publit 
career. In 18.57, the year of his admis- 
sion to the bar, he was api)oinled surro- 
gate of Cattaraugus county by (lovernor K. D. .Mor- 
gan. He was elected to the same office in the fall 
of that year, and was again elected in the fall of 
1861. Legislative as well as juridical honors came 



to him, since he was elected to the state senate 
in 18(;!l from the ."i'id district, comijosed of Catta- 
raugus and Chantampia counties. The next impor- 
tant service to which he wa.s called by the ])ublic 
was that involved in his ele( tion as county judge of 
Cattaraugus county in the fall of 187."). He dis- 
charged .so faithfully the duties of this office that he 
was re-elected in 18«1, ami thus served another 
term of six years. 

In .May. I8!t2, Judge Scott brought to a clo.se 
his long residence in l'!llicottville, and moved to 
Buffalo. His de|)arture was a decided loss to the 
smaller place. .Among the benefits accruing to 
the town wholly or in jKirt through him may be 
mentioned its railroail facilities. Judge Scott be- 
1 ame very much interested in the construction of 
the Rochester i\: State Line railroad, now the 




II.I.H.y D. SCOTT 

Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg, and he was largely 
instrumental in causing the line to go through 
Kllicottville. He was the attorney of the road for 
several years. 



ME.X OF XEil' YORK—U'ESTERN SECT/O.V 



Judge Scott has sjjent the greater part of his life 
in the country, and has naturally been interested in 
farming. He has given special attention to the pro- 
cess of preserving green fodder called ensilage, and 
has built several silos. He is a firm believer in the 
practicability of raising ensilage for winter fodder. 



.s7.i/o\ sEiiu-ik r 

For about two years after going to Buffalo Judge 
Scott was connected with the law firm of Sprague, 
Morey, Sprague & Krownell. In 180.'^ he became 
one of the counsel for the executors of the David 
S. Ingalls estate. This estate amounted to about 
8700,000, and there was a sharp contest over the 
will. When the .Alleghany iV Kin/ua Railroad Co. 
got into financial straits, in 1M92, Judge Scott was 
appointed receiver, and he is still operating the 
road. 

For the last two years Judge S< ott has been a 
lecturer in the Buffalo Law School. He has taken 
great interest and pleasure in the discharge of this 
duty, and has the jjrosperity of the school very much 
at heart. 



PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Allai Dar/i/ti; 
Scott 7c>as horn at Spring-cille, N. Y., January 15, 
18S1 ; was educated at Springville Academy and Gene- 
see Weskyan Seminary, Lima, N. Y. ; tvas adtnitted 
to the bar in 1857, and began practice at Ellicottiille, 



N. Y. 




married Elizabeth Louisa Noyes of North 
Co//ins, A'. Y., in September, 1854, <"'d 
Vida Cox of Otto, N. Y., in May, 
1862 ; 7cias elected surrogate of Cattarau- 
gus county in 1851 and again in 1801 : 
was state senator, 1870-71, and county 
Judge, 1876-87 : has operated the Alle- 
ghany &= Kinzua railroad as receiver 
since 1892 : has practiced hnv in Buffalo 
since 1892 



SllUOn SCibert has attained un- 
usual political popularity, having repre- 
sented his fellow-citi/ens in both houses 
of the state legislature, as well as in the 
state and other conventions of the Re- 
publican party. Indeed, for the last ten 
years or thereabouts he has been sent as 
a delegate to almost all the important 
conventions of his partv. He was born 
in Buffalo, and has always lived there. 
.\t the age of fi\e he was sent to the 
]jul)lic schools, where his general educa- 
tion was received. Having completed 
the course of instruction there, he en- 
tered Bryant ..S: Stratton's Business Col- 
lege, from which he graduated in \^~^. 
'The knowledge thus obtained was first 
\)\\\ to practical u.se in his father's coal 
business. Later he carried on a men's 
furnishing store at Last Buffalo for sev- 
eral \ears, and his |irudence and sagacitv 
l)rought their due reward of success. 
In 1889 Mr. Seibert retired from busi- 
ness to accept an ap])ointment as I'nited States 
ganger under President Harrison. \\'hen the Dem- 
ocrats came into ]30wer in 18!)."! he found himself 
free to embark in business once more, and became 
connected with the Magnus Beck Brewing Co. as 
traveling .salesman, a position that he still holds. 
He is also president of the Buffalo Clearing Co. 

Mr. Seibert has for many years interested himself 
actively in the welfare of the Republican party. He 
lias been one of its bulwarks in the .section of BufTalo 
known as the Kast Side, and has been president of 
the East Side Republican League. No man in that 
l)art of the city has been more constantly engaged 
in the service of the party, or more continuously 
honored by preferment in its councils. His devotion 



M/:\ Oh Si:W VOKK — Wh.STKKX ShAlhKX 



to public affairs was rewarded, in 1H9;{, liy a nom- 
ination for member of assembly ; and though the 
normal I)emocrati< majority in his district was GOO, 
and the oiJ|>osing candidate was one whose i>o|ni- 
larity had been attested in several former elections, 
Mr. Seibert was elected by a majority of l-toti 
votes, .\fter a year's faithful service at the state 
capital he was renominated in the fall of 1h;i4, and 
was elected by an increa.sed majority. .\t the end 
of his second term he received the higher honor of 
a nomination to the u])per house of the state legisla- 
ture from the 48th senatorial district. The conven- 
tion that established his candidacy was composed of 
representative bnsine.ss men, and he was nominated 
by acclamation. In 1892 Crover Cleveland had 
carried this district by a majority of 2000 votes : 
but Mr. Seibert was elected by a majority of 220fi. 
though he lost nearly 10(10 votes under 
the new ballot law. In IMIKJ he was 
elected an alternate delegate to the 
Kepubliian national convention at Si. 
I .ouis. 

Mr. Seibert's uninterrupted success 
may well lead one to look for the secret 
of his political jjopularity. He himself 
attributes it chiefly, not to any remark 
able genius on his |jart, but to the 
simple fact that he has always treated 
his constituents fairly and honestly, anil 
has not made promises that he was not 
able to fulfill. In this way he ha.-- 
gained the confidence and resiject of all. 
and those who have known him longest 
are his best friends — a statement thai 
speaks volumes for the character of an) 
man of whom it can be made. 

.Mr. Seibert is a member of M\sti< 
Star Lodge, Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows, and of Millard Fillmore Lodge. 
Knights of l'ythia.s. He belongs, also, 
to the Teiitonia M.xnncn-hor, one of the 
chief musical societies of Buffalo : and 
he has been president of the Spmdel 
Fishing Club and the Silver King Fish 
ing Club. 

PF.RSOXAI. CHROXOL OG J ' — 
Simon SrihrrI was horn tit Buffalo Sf/<- 
UmhtT IJ, /.V,57 .• 7i'as eihaaUii in piiMif 
schools anil firvant 6^ S/rafton s Hiisinfss 
College ; 7i'as in business, IS7S-S.') .• 7t'as 
l^niteJ States gauger, lSSft-U.{ .- was elected member 
of assembly in ISn.i anil lSf)i, anJ state senator in 
189.') : lias been connected loith the .\fagnus IWck 
Breiving Co., Buffalo, since IS!t.S. 



aibCrt 3. SKllUail «as bom in CatUraugus 
county, .\'ew \'ork, somewhat more than forty years 
ago. His early eilucation was obtained in the jmblic 
schools of his native town of Cattaraugus, and he 
also received the benefit of a classical course at 
Chamberlain Institute, Randolph, N. V. Beyonil 
that his schola.stic training did not go. After leav- 
ing Chamlierlain Institute, however, .Mr. Sigman 
devoted consitlerable time to teaching, and he re- 
gards this experience as constituting not the least 
valuable part of his education. He taught ten terms 
altogether, beginning the occu|)ation when he was 
only seventeen years of age. .Vt first his field of 
labor was in the district schools of Cattaraugus coun- 
ty, but his success was such that he was soon jilaced 
in charge of more important work, and he finally 
became |)rinci|);il of a large school at Otto. 




Iini-KT I. SIGMA \ 



.As Waller .Scott <leenied journalism an excellent 
cane but a poor < rutch, so Mr. Sigman looked iiiKin 
country tea»hingas good enough for a makeshift but 
not suitable for a permanent calling. .All through 



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^JE.\^ OF .VEir )()AVv'— ;/'A\s7'A'A'.\' SECV/O.y 



his career as a teacher he was devoting his days and 
nights, so far as he could, to the study of law. He 
was registered at an office, and doubtless derived 
some benefit from his experience there ; but his legal 
education was acquired almost entirely by himself, 
without the aid of school or prece|)tor. Knowledge 
won in that way is often hard to get ; but it sticks 
when once acquired. Mr. Sigman, at all events, 
found the self-instructing method of reading law 
highly effective, and he had no difficulty in passing 
the bar examination in Buffalo in [une, lf<77. 

Opening an office in that city January 1, lx7,s, 
.Mr. Sigman has since practiced his profession there. 
He has traveled extensively in Europe and in this 
country, but his main interests have been in Buffalo, 
and his professional work has been done in western 
Xew York. If repeated victories in contested cases 
may be made the basis of judgment, he must be 
regarded as a lawyer of marked ability and success. 
He ha.s carried on his work from the beginning with- 
out associates. He has not specialized his field, but 
conducts a general practice, and devotes himself 
alike to court work and to office consultation. His 
I)rofe.ssion brought him into connection a few years 
ago with certain real-estate operations of some mag- 
nitude, and he has since devoted a good deal of 
profitable time to such interests. 

In ])olitical matters Mr. Sigman's sympathies were 
formerly Democratic. He was a charter member of 
the Cleveland Democracy, and was one of the execu- 
tive committee that organized the movement. He 
is a strong ]jrotectionist, however, and when Mr. 
Cleveland came out in favor of a liberalized tariff 
Mr. Sigman resigned from the Cleveland Democracy, 
and joined the Buffalo Republican League. He has 
never been a candidate for public office, though his 
name has often been mentioned in connection with 
jjolitical nominations. He usually makes speeches, 
and otherwise takes an active part in campaign work. 

Mr. Sigman has been much interested in Free 
Masonry. He is a Past Master of Hiram Lodge, 
No. lOo, ¥. & A. M., and a member of the Buffalo 
Chajjter of Royal Arch Masons. He is also Vice 
(Irand of Red Jacket Lodge, No. 238, I. (). (). F. 

/'£:/?S O NA L CHR ONOL O G Y— Albert Jay 
Sigman 7vas born at Cattaraugi/s, JV. V. ; 7ciiis edu- 
cated in district schools and Chamberlain Institute, 
Randolph, N. Y. ; taught school, studied law, and icas 
admitted to the bar at Buffalo in June, 1H77 : has 
practiced /aro in Buffalo since January 1, IHIH. 



30natban X. Slater, i>rominent at the bar 
ol Buffalo, and widely known in connection with 
ch\inh affairs, was born somewhat le.ss than fortv 



years ago on a farm in Chautauqua county. He 
started in life with the latent advantage of excellent 
de.scent, his ancestors having come to this country 
from England in colonial times, and having taken 
an active jjart in the revolutionary war. Samuel 
Slater, who Iniilt a cotton mill at Pawtucket, R. 1., 
in 1790, and thus established the cotton industry on 
this side of the Atlantic, was a member of the fam- 
ily ; and Hosea Ballon, the eminent Universalist 
clergyman, belonged to another branch. 

Mr. .Slater's earliest instruction was obtained from 
his maternal great-grandmother, who was related to 
John (Juincy Adams and was a schoolmate of his. 
Further education was acc.|uired at irregular inter- 
\als, as the exigencies of fiirm work permitted, in the 
public schools of his native town and in Ellington 
.\cademy. Upon leaving the farm his ambition 
to obtain at least a part of the higher education 
induced him to enter Chamberlain Institute, where 
he paid his way largely by means of tutoring. He 
graduated from the institute with high standing in 
IXJSO. He then began the study of law in the office 
of B. F. Congdon, Randolph, and engaged in teach- 
ing at the .same time. These two occupations have 
constantly been united by young men ambitious to 
enter the legal domain, and not infre(|uently with 
entire success. So it was in the case of Mr. Slater, 
since he was able, in October, 188."), to pass the bar 
examinations at Rochester. 

Some eighteen months before this Mr. Slater had 
left Cattaraugus county to seek the wider o|jportuni- 
ties and greater promise of a large city. In the office 
of Morey & Inglehart of Buffalo he found favorable 
conditions for continuing the study of law; and he 
remained there several vears after his admission to 
the bar. January 1, 1S,S7, he opened an office on 
his own account in lUiffalo, and has since carried on 
a successful pra<-lit:e in that I'ity. Mr. Slater's jjrog- 
ress in the law has been made quietly, but steadily. 
He sjjends much more time in his office than in 
the court room, and believes in adjusting legal 
difficulties, whenever ]jo.ssible, without resort to 
trial. Reason, common sense, and caliu discretion are 
weapons of legal warfare that seem to him not only 
less expensive than those conuiionly used, but also 
much more efficient and generally satisfactory. 
Court litigation is .sometimes inevitable, of course, 
but in most cases Mr. Slater finds that he can serve 
the cause of his client best by consultation, study, 
and other means of settlement outside the court 
room. His specialty is domestic cor|)oration work, 
but his range of practice covers a wide field. 

The other side of Mr. Slater's life is to be found 
in his ( huri h work ami ]ihilanthropic pursuits. For 



M/:\ Oh .\/:ir ica-a— ;»a\//-./,'.\ s/icr/o.v 



a long time he has concerned himself with such mat- 
ters — not iKissively, with a languid interest limited 
to the rontril)ution liox, but actively and vitally, and 
in a direct, ])ersonal way. He is a member of tlic 
Delaware Avenue Methotlist K|)is<o|«l Cliiin li, and 
has long been prominent in the benelH ent work ol' 
that institution. He served on the of- 
fu ial boaril, and wa.^ superintendent o( 
the Sunday school from 1.H.S7 to IK'MI. 

This branch of church work has [Kir- 
ticidarly interesteil Mr. Slater, and he 
has devoted a good deal of time and 
thought to the betterment and perfec- 
tion of Sundav-.si hool service. lie was 
a delegate from New York state to the 
WorUl's Sunday School Convention held 
in London, Knglanil, in June, IXHll. 
He was president of the Hufialo Sun- 
day School As.sociation from l)e<endicr, 
ISHO, to December, ISifJ. During his 
administration the work prospereil great- 
ly, and the number of schools repre- 
sented in the a.s.sociation increaseil from 
ti7 to l(t;>. A larger organization de- 
voted to similar ends, and known as ihc 
Mrie I'ountv Sun<lav S( hool .-Vs-socialion, 
has been effec live in promoting Sunday- 
school work not only in Krie tounty. 
its special field of activity, but through- 
out the state ;ls well. .Mr. Slater was 
electeil president of this a.ssociation in 
.May, iJ^it.'i, and has carried on its work 
with vigor and wisdom. 

Other forms of church anil charitable 
organization have received the benefit 
of Mr. Slater's judgment and executive 
ability. He has interested himself for 
many years in the work of the Young 
Men's Christian .\ssociation, and served 
as a director of the Buffalo branch from iMMti to 
IXHS. He was largely instrumental in the forma 
tion of the Pri.son (late Mi.ssion, though perhaps the 
chief credit for this work should be assigned to Mrs. 
Slater. There are only two other institiiiions of 
this kind in the I'nited Stales, though ihcy arc 
most deserving, and constitute splendid examples ol 
practical philanthropy. The purpose of the mission 
is to establish (piarters near the penitentiary, and to 
meet prisoners at the critical moment of their dis- 
charge ; to invite them into the mission, where 
food and lodging may be obtained, and lal>or jiro- 
vided to cover the expense thus inc urred ; and after- 
ward to assist the pri.soners to begin life anew under 
favoring auspices. Mr. Slater is a director ol ihc 



Huffalo mission. He gives heart) and intelligent 
sup|X)rt to every kind of charitable work and Chris- 
tian endeavor. 

J' /■: Ji S O X A J. CIIROiXOLOGY—Jomithan 
l.amhfrt Sliitfr icas I'oni <// /•'//iiii^/oii, i 'litiH/ttii</iiii 
iOini/y, X. v., Miiich JU, IS')7 : iitti-ntUJ f<ul>li( 




;i<\ I //I l\ J \/ I //; /i' 

si/wo/s and Elliiii^loii Aiadimy, txiut poiUialed J'lvm 
Cluviihi-rliiiii /iistiliiti-, Raiidolf>li, X. )'. . /// /.s'.sv; .• 
tiuijiht school and sliidifd /(Uo, and -icas adnii/Ud to tlif 
/nir in 1S8-! : marrird Susan A. Janifson of Dublin, 
hrhvuL Septi-mher HI, ISS.'i : icas f>ifsid(nt of Ihf 
Ihitfalo Sunday Stiiool Anoiiafion, hfOO-O^, and lias 
ht-fn president of the F.rif County Sunday School Asso- 
ciation siner IS'!-! '■'■'■ /<ra,-//crd /■':.' i)i Btiifn!,' iinrc 
ISS.I. 

Charles I?. StlClSUCV? <omes of pure Knglish 
stock. I'wo hundred years ago, when the pojiula 
tion of New Hngland was made u|> almost entirely of 
Dis-senters from the ca.stern counties of Kngland, his 
ancestors emigrated lo Massachusetts from the town 



27C. 



MK.y OF. \EIV )7)A'A'— ;(7;.s//-A'.\- SECT/OX 



ofStickney, near Liverpool. The first great Puritan 
exodus, which ceased half a century before, had 
brought to this country a people of unswerving re- 
ligious standard. As Stoughton, the governor of 
Massachusetts, .said, " God sifted a whole nation that 
He might send choice grain over into this wilder- 




CHARI.KS /). STJCKWEY 

ness. " It was among such that the Stickney family 
was planted. How this " choice grain " nourished, 
in spite of harsh climate and niggardly .soil, one may 
see from the early records of New England. Thrifty 
towns and enduring commonwealths sprang up, pub- 
lic education was ])rovided for, and the principles of 
popular government were succe.ssfully ])ut in practice. 
In commerce, domestic trade, and manufactures New 
Kngland soon sur|)a.ssed all the other colonies. It 
was gathering wealth, numbers, and fortitude for the 
second great sifting of the Revolution. Meanwhile 
the fair pasturage lands that dot the rocky surface of 
Vermont attracted the descendants of the Stickney 
emigrants, and there they made their home until the 
early vears of this centur\-. 



When the Erie canal was opened many new 
.settlers went to western New York. Among them 
was our Vermont family, and Erie county became 
and is still their abiding place. The population of 
the New England colonies was then homogeneous in 
the extreme, but that of New York was noted for its 
heterogeneous character. The Dutch 
and English element predominated, but 
there were many Erench Huguenots, 
Ciermans, Swedes, Finns, Welsh, and 
Jews. The names of many of the 
towns bear permanent witness to the 
nationality of the people who chris- 
tened them. The little village of Hol- 
land w-as doubtless so called by some 
homesick Netherlander, who hoped to 
prove that there was more in a name 
than the popular ([notation admits. It 
was in this village that Charles Stickney 
was born, early in the .second half of 
the century. 

The district school furnished his rudi- 
mentary education, and he then com- 
pleted the course offered at Ten Broeck 
Academy. Deciding to make the law 
his profession, he undertook the study in 
the office of Judge Spring of Franklin- 
viUe. Going to Buffiilo in 1X79, he 
continued his studies with Judge Corlett 
and Judge Hatch, and was admitted to 
practice in the New York Supreme Court 
at Rochester in 1882, and in the United 
States Court three years later. He 
opened a law office in Buffalo at once, 
and has been in active practice there 
ever since. During almost the entire 
period he has practiced alone, but re- 
cently he formed a partnership with 
Major E. O. Farrar. 
In addition to his office duties Mr. Stickney has 
given a term of service as clerk of the board of 
supervisors of Erie county, and is at present attor- 
ney for the state of New York in the transfer-tax 
department. His active particii^ation in ])olitics 
began with the first Harrison camjiaign. .\ member 
of iioth state and national Republican leagues, he 
has spoken in every town and ward in F^rie county, 
a.s well as in many other ])laces in the state. In 
the second Harrison cam]5aign, as the official organ- 
izer for Erie county, he formed over fifty Repub- 
lican clubs. 

Mr. Stickney attends the Lafayette Avenue Pres- 
byterian Church, and belongs to the Masonic frater- 
nity and other similar organizations. 



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PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Charles D. 
Stickiifx icas born at ffol/anJ, X. )'. , Auf^iisf '■>, 
ISiiT : icas educated at Ten Broeck Academy, 
Franklinville, X. Y.; 7oas admitted to the har at 
Rochester in 1SS2 ; married Ida M. West of West 
I 'alley, N. V., April .iO, 1SS2 ; K-as clerk of the hoard 
of supervisors of Erie county in 188S ; has been attor- 
ney for y\>7i' York state in the transfer-tax department 
since ISO.', : has practiced Unv in Huffalo since ISSJ. 

3arcJ> 1bvC»C IIUC>CU »i»-i Iwm in I'raiiklin, 
Conn., somewhat less than seventy years ago. He 
moved to the Kmpire .State in lioyhootl, traversing 
Long Island sound in a sloo)), and proceeding to 
KiifTalo via the Hudson river and Krie canal. Reach- 
ing Bnfl\jlo in Septemlier, 1«;}7, he attended the 
public schools of the city, and later a private .school, 
until he was nineteen years old. After 
working lor a ."short time in the office of 
his father, Thomas B. 'I'ilden, a jironii 
nent builder of Buffalo, Jared decideil 
to study medicine and lead a professional 
life. With this end in view he went to 
Cincinnati, and attended the Mclectic 
Medical Institute until June, l^oO, when 
he received the degree of M. D. 

.M'ler practicing his jjrofession during 
the siunmer of l^'Xl in Westfield, N. V.. 
with Dr. Alvin Shattuck, he passed the 
winter of l«.5(i-ol at the Central Metli 
cal College, Rochester, as demonstrator 
of anatomy. He then spent several 
months visiting the hospitals in New 
\'ork city, and attending clinics in Cin- 
cinnati. In May, 1H.')1, at I'ittsburg, 
I'enn., he was elected vice president of 
the National Eclectic Medical .Associa- 
tion. Taking up his residence again in 
HulTalo in the fall of 1«.")1, Dr. Tilden 
renewed his connection with Alvin Shat- 
tuck in the practice of medicine. Dr. 
Shattuck withdrew from the partnership 
after al)out a year, and Dr. Tilden prac- 
ticed alone thereafter. In June, 18r)4, 
he was commissioned surgeon's mate of 
the 74th regiment, N. (1., S. N. Y., and 
tor the nc.\t ten years he was actively 
interested in the affairs of the National 
(iuard. He was also a prominent mem- 
ber for thirty years of comjany D, liuf- 
falo City (luards. 

People have long ceased to think of Mr. Tilden 
as a practicing physician. He followed his profes- 
sion in Buffalo, however, for several years, or until 



the fall of !«.■)!», when he formed a |>artnership in 
the building business with his father. The two 
conducted their operations with marked success 
until l«ti!t, when Ihoniiis B. Tilden died. Since 
that time Jared H. Tilden has carrie<l on the busi- 
ness alone. He has long been one of the foremost 
contractors of western New York, and a transcript 
from his books would convey a fair idea of Buffalo 
building operations during the last forty years. Mr. 
Tilden's |>ay roll has averaged for many years not far 
from SoO.OOd annually. He h:is built many of the 
finest structures in Buffalo, including the Palace 
hotel (destroyed by fire ), First Presbyterian Church, 
Delaware Avenue Bajjtist Church, Suir Theatre build- 
ing, L'nion Central Life building, the Red Jacket 
flats, the north wing of the Sisters of Charity Hospi- 
tal, and a section of the new Buffalo Cieneral Hospi- 




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tal. He has al.so built many of the notable dwellings 
of Buffalo. With the exception of three years, he 
was secretary of the Builders' Kxchange, 1 «(>!>-«!( ; 
and he is still an active member of that organization. 



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Having lived in Buffalo the greater jjarl of the last 
sixty years, Mr. Tilden knows the tity thoroughly, 
and is identified with many of its social institutions. 
Like other prominent Buffalonians in earlier times, 
when the volunteer fire comimnies took the jjlace of 
latter-day clubs. Mr. Tihien entered the fire depart- 



////<■ Elizabeth Hedge of Buffalo October S, 1855; 
practiced medicine in Buffalo, 1851-59 ; has conducted 
a hnilding htisiness in Buffalo since 1859. 




FK/iDKK/i h' .1. rocr 

mcnt, "running" with Washington engine, No. 5, 
from lrS4(i to 18r)4. He is a life memlier of the 
Buffalo I'iiie Arts Academy, and of the Buffalo 
Library. For twenty years or more he has belonged 
to the Buffalo Historical Societ) . He was one of 
the original memhers of the Oakfield Club, a famil)- 
association on (Jrand island, and has been on the 
board of directors for many years. He has attended 
the Central Presbyterian Church for forty years, and 
has been a trustee of the same for twenty years. 

PERSOiYAL CHRONOLOGY— Jared Hyde 
Tilden was born at Franklin, Conn. , April 30, 1828 ; 
moved to Buffalo in 1837, and attended public and 
private schools there ; studied medicine in Cincinnati, 
and took the degree of M. D. in 1850 ,• married Caro- 



JfrC^CriCl? H. DOOt has been a teacher for 
nearU half his life, and a student from the time 
he became old enough to stud\ at all. 
The story of his career has two sides, 
one recording continuous study and self- 
development, and the other showing 
continuous success in his profe.ssion as a 
teacher. Though still a young man, he 
has won his way in the face of serious 
obstacles to a position in the foremost 
rank of Buffalo educators. 

Mr. \^ogt's life has all been spent in 
lUiffalo. He was born there, of Alsatian 
])arentage, and began his education in 
the Buffalo pui)lic schools at the age of 
six. At twenty-one he graduated from 
the high school with honors, receiving 
the Jesse Ketchum gold medal for high 
standing in the studies of the graduation 
year. He had taken a cla.ssical course, 
ill the ex])ectation of going to college, 
but his father died during the senior 
year, and he had to set about earning his 
own living. 

In the September fallowing his grad- 
uation from the high school, Mr. Vogt 
became jirincipal of Public School No. 
it, which was then opened as a new 
school. Two years later he was pro- 
moted to the princi|Mlshi]) of school No. 
2(i. There he remained for nine years. 
Then he became profes.sor of Phigli.sh 
history and literature in the high school. 
His stay in this position was short ; for 
a few months later Henry P. Emerson, 
])rin(ipal of the high school, was elected su])erin- 
icndcnt of schools, and as one of his first acts in 
the new office ajipointed Mr. Vogt to his earlier 
position. Thus in less than a dozen years Mr. 
Vogt ad\aiu ed from the rank of a graduate of the 
high school to the principalship of the institution. 

.Mr. \'ogt has proved himself a very successful 
teacher and an excellent administrator. .\ feature 
of his work in the Buffalo High School is the 
variety of broadening influences that he has found 
it possible to add to the ordinary school routine. 
The silent educative influences that come from daily 
contact with fine specimens of art have received 
jiarticular attention. Casts from antique sculptures 
are scattered throughout the building in profiision ; 



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of the surrounding country than a consideration of 
the changes that have taken i>la< e within the exjieri- 
ence of a man still in active life. When Mr. Web- 
ster was Itorn, in the town of Ixlen. Krie county 
had l)een in existence liut two years, having been 
formed from Niagara county in \f<2\. The new 
county contained only ten ix)st offices and thirteen 
towns. It was just emerging from a pioneer settle- 
ment into a farming community, and comfortable 
frame houses hail l)egun to take the plai e of the log 
cabins of the first settlers. 

Among these early pioneers had been four 
brothers, sons of Hugh Webster, who moved to 
what is now the village of Kden Valley, then (ailed 
I'ubbs' Hollow, in IHi:!, the year after the for- 
mation of the town of Ivden. ( >ne of thc-se brothers 
was Kdwaril Webster, the father of the subject of 



and in the chajiel there is an excellent collection 
of pictures by UutTalo artists, lent to the school at 
the instance of Mr. Vogt by the artists them.selves. 
The stimulus s|jringing from contact with su|)erior 
minds is also utili/ed. .Many a ilistinguished visitor 
to Buffalo is |)revaileil upon to address the scholars, 
and the Wednesday-morning talks in chapel form one 
of the most interesting and valuable features of 
school life. 

.Mong with his work in the s( hools, .Mr. Vogt 
has found time to do outside a great ileal of what 
is practically university -extension work. He be- 
lieves in disseminating the benefits and iileasures 
of knowledge as widely as jjossilile. In |iarti< ular, 
he has delivereil many lectures on the natural 
sciences, a department of study in which he is 
especially interested ; and lertain free courses of 
lectures by him on geology and botany 

before the Field Club were exceedingly , 

pO])ular and drew large auiliences. He 
W.1S, indeed, one of the founders of this 
branch of Kield Club work. 

.Ml this rejiresents but one side of Mr. 
N'ogt's life. There is another side, as 
was said at the beginning — his work as 
a student. .-Ml the time that he has 
been so busy as an instructor, he has 
been patiently and steadily carrying on 
his own studies, in Hebrew, the cla.ssi( s, 
natural science, and the higher mathe 
matics, aiming to secure by .self-help the 
practical results of the university t our-.c 
originally jjlanned. 

.Mr. Vogt is a member of a number uf 
societies, .social, scientific, and literary. 
.\mong them are the Liberal Club, tin- 
Field Club, the Saturn Club, the IliiMaii) 
( )rpheus, and the Pundit Club. 

PF.RSOXAL CHROXOI. OGY — 
l-'n-deriik Augustus I 'tts;/ 7C'as horn at 
Buffalo March 24, JSH't : leas fi/uai/f,/ 
in the Buffah puhlic schools, t^raduatin;:; 
from the high school in 1881 ; 7t'as a/>- 
/>oinled /'rincipal of Puhlic School No. I> 
in Scf'tcmhcr, ISSl, principal of school 
No. 20 in ISS.i, and professor of F.nglish 
history and literature in the Buffalo High 
School in March, 1802 ; has heen princi- 
pal of the high school since January, I.S'.O.!. 
••• 

Ellis XUcbStCr has lived a long and busy life, our .sketch. F:ilis Webster attended the i)rimitive 
and hi^ home ha.-, been in Huffalo ever since he district school of those early days, and lived the 
reached manhood's estate. Nothing more vividly healthful, hardy life of a country boy. But he was 
(alls to mind the marvelous growth of that ( ity and ambitious to .achieve greater sik cess than the limited 




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opportunities of a rural community could offer, and 
a few months before attaining his majority he went 
to Buffalo. 

This was in 1844, the year of the "great flood" 
in Buffalo, and the financial conditions of the city 
were most favoralile for the young man's success. 
For several years previous to 1840 the population 
there had barely held its own ; the greatest depres- 
sion prevailed in business circles, and house after 
house went down in the general panic. The city 
recovered slowly from the crash, but by 184.3 it had 
regained a healthy financial condition, and from that 
time increased rapidly in both population and com- 
mercial ])rosperitv. 

Mr. Webster had been in the city but three years 
when he began business on his own account a.s a 
member of the firm of D. R. Hamlin & Co., con- 
ducting a grocery and produce business on Seneca 
street. Mr. Hamlin furnished most of the capital, 
but shared the profits equall\- with his young associ- 
ate. For over twenty years Mr. Webster carried on 
the business, in association with (leorge W. .Scott 
for five years. 

In 18()8 Mr. Weijster embarked in the coal trade, 
and in 1875 extended his busine.ss to include the ice 
industry, thus connecting his name with the branches 
of trade in which he has ever since been engaged. 
In 1875 his .son, K. H. Web.ster, was taken into 
jjartnership, and the firm name became K. Webster 
& Son. In 1886 William Germann wa.s admitted to 
a share in the business, and the present style of V.. 
Webster, Son & Co. was adojjted. Mr. W'ebster has 
devoted his energies unremittingly to the Inisiness, 
and it has grown and prospered steadily until it is 
to-day one of the largest of its kind in Buffalo. 

Public affairs have had no great attraction for Mr. 
Webster; but he has always believed in doing his 
duty as a loyal citizen, and in 187.'5-74 he served as 
alderman of the old 2d ward of Buffalo. He has 
been a member of the First Baptist Church of Buffalo 
for more than thirty years. For the first five years 
he was a trustee and trea.surer, and since then he has 
been a deacon. For abouty twenty years he has 
lieen a life member of the Buffalo Library, and he 
has belonged to the Buffalo Historical Society nearly 
as long. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Ellis Webster 
was boni at Eden, N. K, August 27, 182S ; 7ms 
educated in district schools ; engaged in the grocery 
and produce business in Buffalo, 18.'^7-iiS ; married 
Charlotte W. Whitney of Kenosha, Wis., September 
11, 1850 ; was alderman of the old 2d ward, Buffalo, 
187S-H ; has carried on a coal and ice business in 
Buffalo since 1868. 



Hbram aSartbOlOmeW, who has practiced 
law in Buffalo I'or more than a ([uarter of a century, 
was born in Collins, Erie county, New York, some- 
what less than sixty years ago. An affliction of 
curvature of the spine prevented him from attending 
school until he was ten years old. He then went 
to the district schools of Collins for four years, 
afterward attending the union school at Gowanda 
one term, and Springville Academy two terras. As 
his father was not able to provide further education, 
Mr. Bartholomew resolved to defray his own ex- 
penses of tuition and board rather than forego the 
benefits of learning. At the unusual age of fifteen, 
accordingly, he began to teach school in the town 
of Fden. After teaching for several years at select 
and district schools in various towns of Erie county, 
he had saved sufficient funds to warrant attendance 
at the Albany State Normal School : and he had the 
satisfaction of graduating from that institution with 
the cla.ss of 1857. 

The next year Mr. Bartholomew, having decitled 
to make the legal profession his life-work, began to 
read law in the office of the late C. C. Severance at 
Springville. He also studied in the office of W. W. 
Mann, and in that of John I. Talcott, late justice of 
the Supreme Court. He was not yet firmly estab- 
lished in a pecuniary way, and he paid his living 
e-\])enscs while studying law by further school 
teaching. All difficulties were happily overcome at 
last, and in No\ember, 18()1, he was admitted to 
the bar at Buffalo. He was then twenty-four years 
old, and the struggle for a ]jrofessional education 
had been long and arduous ; but he has never 
doubted that the result was worth all that it lost in 
time and labor and privation. 

For about two years after his admission to the bar 
.Mr. Bartholomew remained at home taking care of 
his father, who was an invalid and needed his assist- 
ance. .\fler spending three years in the Oil-creek 
region, speculating in oil lands in a vain (juest for 
fortune, Mr. Bartholomew wisely settled down to 
the steady-going jjractice of law in Hamburg, N. V. 
This was in 18fifi. He remained in Hamburg one 
year, but the town was well supplied with lawyers — 
cx-Governor Boies of Iowa, Judge Robert C. Titus 
of Buffalo, and three others were practicing there 
at the .same time — and he decided to move to 
Ebenezer in the same county. At the latter place 
he practiced two years, and established a good 
country clientage. The outlook, however, was not 
sufficiently promising to .satisfy his ambition, and in 
1869 he took up his residence in Buffalo, where he 
has ])racticed e\cr since with gratifying success. 
He has considerable office work, but is better known 



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as a trial lawyer, as his practice hxs to do with con- 
tested cases largely, and takes him into court much 
of the time. He has conducted his law luisiness 
without the aiil of associates, thoufjh of late years 
his son Niles, who is also an attorney, has occupied 
offices with him. 

Mr. Bartholomew has never thought ii 
worth while to seek |>olili(al honors : 
hut he has taken keen interest in public 
affairs, and has ardently supi>orted the 
Democratic [arty. He has taken part 
in |K)litical camjiaigns for many years, 
having addressed numerous imblic meet- 
ings in Krie county. He is a memlier I 
of Orient Lodge, Ancient Order of 
I'nited Workmen, and attends West 
minster I'resbvterian C"hurch. 

PERSOXAL CHROXOLOGY — 
Ahram Partholoiimo was born at Collim, 
X. )'., Ffbniary >8, 1837; alteiidfil 
CriKiuiiida Union School ami Sprint^t'illf 
Acaiiemx : /ai/x;/i/ school for a time, and 
i^raiiualfii from the State Xonnal School at 
Albany in ISiil : was admitlftl to th( bar 
in 1861 : married Florence Cutler of Hol- 
land, X. v., December iO, ISti^ : en- 
,^'aged in oil operations, ISO^-tiU ; prac- 
ticed law at Hamburi; and Ebenezer, 
X. v., ISdfl-afI ; has practiced law in 
Hnfalo since ISftf). ' 

CbarlCS JBcrriCh, a builder and 
contractor of Huflalo for more than forty | 
years, is an Knglishman by birth, and 
])Os.sesses many of the best traits of his 
native people. His very name discloses 
his origin, since his family in early times 
adopted for their cognomen a jjhonetic 
spelling of Renvick, the famous town 
between Scotland and England. Charles Herric k, 
one of thirteen children, was born at foleshill, 
near Birmingham, Kngland, nearly seventy years 
ago. His education was obtained in the < omnion 
schools of Warwickshire, his native county. .Vfter 
serving his time as an apprentice to the ma.son's 
trade, he worked as a bricklayer for various em- 
ployers, including Geo. Stephenson & Son, the 
famous locomotive designers, until he was twenty- 
three years old. That is not the age at which most 
men attain breadth of view and sagaciogs foresight : 
but Mr. Berrick was not like other men, and he 
resolved to escape from the hard conditions of 
industrial life in overcrowded Kngland, and try his 
fortunes amid the ampler opfxirtunities of America. 



This determination was not long in maturing to 
the point of action, and the spring of ISoO found 
.Mr. Herrick on board the bark " Henry," outward 
bound froin London for Sandy Hook and the new 
world. Winnebago, Wis., was his objective point, as 
he had Knglish friends in that place : and he started 




AIJKAM ItAR THOI.OMUn 

thither soon after landing in New \ ork, by way of 
the Hudson river to .Albany, and railroad thence to 
Buffalo. Fortunately for the latter i ity, and for Mr. 
Berrick as well, it would seem, lake I-!rie was full of 
iie, steamers could not leave |X)rl, railroads west 
there were none, and Wisconsin was accessible only 
by tedious stagecoach traveling. Under .such con- 
ditions, Mr. Berrick decided to stay in Buffalo for a 
few months, and resume his westward journev in the 
fall. He obtained emi>loyment easily, and became 
so well .satisfied with the outlook by the autumn of 
1H.")0 that he |)Ost])oned indefinitely his trip to Wis- 
consin, and determined to make Buffalo his [»erma- 
nent residence. Time has shown the wisdom of 
this decision. 



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Mi:x or XEW )oRk-^in-:sT/-:/<\ s/-:cr/o.\ 



In the middle of the century Buffalo had onl\- 
40,000 people, and few buildings that would now be 
deemed noteworthy in any commendable respect. 
In the transition from such a city to the present 
metropolis, with its magnificent public and private 
structures, Mr. Herrirk has had an important part. 




CH.lKI./:s ISI-.l'HiK K 

His training on the other side of the ocean had been 
long and thorough, and he had worked here onl\ a 
short time before his employer saw his value and 
made him foreman. But Mr. Berrick had not left 
his country, and traveled oversea .'5000 miles, to 
become a foreman merely ; and after working for 
others two years he established himself in busine.ss 
on his own account as a ma.ster mason and contractor. 
His commissions at first were not large, but he did 
so well such work as was entrusted to him, and 
showed himself .so reliable and honest in all his 
tlealings, that he soon received more important con- 
tracts. A list of the buildings erected wholly or in 
|)art by him would give one an accurate idea of the 
architectural emergence of Buffalo from mid-centurv 



conditions to the modern city, .\mong his earlv 
contracts were those made with the Lake Shore and 
Erie railroads for the erection of roundhouses and 
machine shops at Buffalo. He laid the foundation 
work and did the masonry of several of the elevators 
for which Buffalo is famous. The Tifft House, (Jer- 
man Insurance building, Barnes-Hen- 
gerer block, St. Louis Church, Coal and 
Iron Exchange, Bank of Buffalo, Hotel 
Iroquois, and Marine Bank are well- 
known Buffalo structures of Mr. Ber- 
rick' s. He also built many of the 
elegant dwellings that adorn Delaware 
avenue, and other beautifid residence 
districts of the (jueen City. 

Until 1892 Mr. Berrick conduced his 
business without partners, but in that 
year his .sons, .Alfred and John, were 
admitted to the firm. They had both 
grown up in the calling with their father, 
learning it thoroughly under his superior 
guidance, and they were thus finely 
ecjuipped for the work of carrying on 
the large business built u|) by Mr. Ber- 
rick in forty years of faithful service. 
The sons now constitute alone the firm of 
Charles Berrick's Sons, the father having 
retired in l)Si)4. He continues, however, 
to take an active interest in the welfare 
of the concern, and his advice is of 
great value in the conduct of the business. 
Mr. Berrick has devoted most of his 
time and energy to his work as a builder. 
His calling, however, has kept him more 
or le.ss in touch with real-estate opera- 
tions ; and he has himself done .some- 
thing in that line, as the marvelous 
growth of Buffalo, and con.sequent ex- 
pansion of real -estate values, encouraged 
such ventures. Mr. Berrick has never cared for 
political office, but has taken the interest of all good 
citizens in the public well-being. In state and 
national ])olitics he has always voted the Republican 
ticket, but in local matters he has voted for the best 
men without special or exclusive regard to the party 
ticket on whic h they ran. He has \isited his native 
land only once since he left it nearly fifty years ago. 
In 188!) he spent a most enjoyable vacation abroad, 
traveling on the continent and in Scotland for a 
while, but ^naturally devoting more time to his 
mother country, and the scenes of his youth and 
early manhood. 

PERSONA L CHR ONOLO G Y—Charl.i 
Berrick 7ivw horn at Colesliill, Wancickshire, li>it:;land. 



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Decfiiil'i-r II, IS ill; roiis filiicatfii in llif tommoii 
schools of Eni;/an./, and learnfii the mason's trade : 
eni^af^ed in the same in En-^land iinlil IS'tl), udten he 
came to this coiintrx : married Mari;aret Callan oj 
fill fa hi Dei-ember -!>,, IS'tJ ; carried on the hiisiiiess 
o/ a contractor '" Pi,tr„l.,, ls;.->-ri>,. 



Tld. 3. COUUCrS '^ ' crlaiiil) a rcmarkal)lL- man. 
r\vcnt\ vcars ai;u he ua» a dot k laborer, and riUccn 
years ago he was running a saloon on ihe Kasi Side, 
HiilTalo : to-day he is a powerful faetor in the wel 
fare of thousantis of people, and exerts a wide intlu- 
enie in several important lines of < ommercial 
artivity — as a brewer, hanker, real-estate promoter, 
news|japer owner; and his business in the trans- 
shijmient of freight is larger than thai of any other 
individual or any concern in the world. \n expla- 
nation of this marvelous translbrmation 
may he found in lerlain ipialitieN <il 
mind and traits of character — in his 
unconipierahle energy, native shrewd- 
ne.s.s of wit, sound judgment on liasic 
and essential |>oints, fair-mindedness, 
large-heart edness. 

Mr. Conners was born in KufTalo in 
\I^Tu. He attended the public schools 
until he was thirteen years old, when 
he took to the lakes, running for several 
years between Huflalo and Dululh as 
a porter on various .-.teamcrs. .Seeing 
clearly that neither fame nor fortune lax 
in that direction, Mr. (."onners resolved 
to make a fresh start on shore. He had 
no money, but he managed to set up a 
saloon in Buffalo, (looil results have 
sometimes ( ome from poor beginnings, 
and so it was with Mr. Conners. In a 
few years he had accumulated sufficient 
lapital, and h.iil accpiired suffit ient busi- 
ness experieni e, to take advantage of an 
op|)ortimity that led to fortune. In the 
spring of IH.s.") he made a contract with 
\Va.shington Hullard for handling all the 
freight in Buffalo of the I'nion Steam- 
boat Co. Mr. Conners fulfdled his 
contract with such efficiency, and the 
superiority of his system was so obvious, 
that other tarriers hastened to make 
similar contracts with him : and he soon 
acipiired a virtual monojioly of the busi- 
nes.s in Buffalo and some other lake jwrts. The 
work was done before by many more or less irre 
si^ionsible contractors employing disorderly, un- 
trained laborers, with incessant changes of foremen. 



troid)les with the men, and costly detention of 
steamers in con.sciiuente. Mr. Conners made him- 
self the sole res|>onsible head of the entire business, 
gained the confidence of his workmen by fair treat- 
ment, systematized and organized the work in a 
multitude of ways, and ran the busine-v, generally 
with machine like smoothness, precision, and effi- 
ciency. He now has contracts for the lo.nding and 
unloading at ISufTalo, I'hicago, Milwaukee, and 
( MadsloiK-. .Mich., of all ves.sels belonging to the 
following trans|X)rlation comjanies : Cnion Steam 
boat. Western Transit, l^-ickawanna, I.ehigh Valley, 
Northern Steamship, Cnion Transit, and "Soo" 
line. In the sea.-<ou of !«!»."> .Mr. Conners handled 
.•{.;}(H».(IO(t tons of bulk freight. He employs .ibout 
.'!0(M» men, and is far and away the largest con 
tractor in the world in this busine.ss. It is a 




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remarkable and significant fact that he has never 
had to tace a strike on the part of his laborers. 

This va>t industry is by no means the only enter- 
prise in which .Mr. Conners has engaged. In 



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I'ebniary, 1889, he was made president of the Buf- 
falo \'ulcanite Asphalt Paving Co., and conducted 
the business successfully for several years. In l-'^iKI 
he acquired a large block of the stock representing 
the property of the Roos (now the Iroquois) 
brewery, and carried on the plant for about a year. 
In the spring of 1M95 he made another venture in 
this business, purchasing a large interest in the 
Magnus Beck Brewing Co. He has been president 
of this company since the date mentioned, and has 
increased the out]Hit of the plant fully one third. 
He owns a quarter interest in the Union Transit 
Co., operating a line of steamers between Buffalo 
and Duluth. He is a director in one bank and a 
stockholder in several others. He is a large owner 
of real estate, having shown rare judgment in the 
purchase and development of property in South 
Buffalo. 

December 28, 189"), Mr. Conners bought a con- 
trolling interest in the Buffalo Enquirer, and since 
then he has given a large part of his time to the 
management of the business. He has thoroughly 
energized the institution, and has increased the cir- 
culation of the paper threefold. In September, 
1896, he established a modern newspaper plant 
consisting of independent light and power engines, 
a battery of linotype machines, equipment for 
photo-engraving, and a Hoe sextuple press weigh- 
ing si.xty tons, consisting of 8(1,000 separate pieces, 
fed from three continuous webs of paper, and able 
to print, paste, fold, register, and count "'2,000 
eight-page papers an hour. 

In the summer of 189() Mr. Conners launched the 
yacht "Enquirer," which has brought him addi- 
tional fame and pleasure. She is one of the hand- 
somest steam yachts in existence, and her record of 
over twenty miles an hour at to[) speed is said to 
make her the Ai.stest boat on fresh water anywhere 
in the world. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— William James 
Conners was born at Buffalo January S, 1857 ; at- • 
tended public schools, hut began work as a porter on 
lake steamers at the age of thirteen ; has carried on a 
freight-transfer business at Buffalo and other lake 
ports since 1883 ; married Catherine Afahany of Buf- 
falo in November, 1881, and Mary A. Jordan of West 
Seneca, N. Y., August 2, 189-3 ; has been president 
of the Enquirer Co., and of the Magnus Beck Brew- 
ing Co., Buffalo, since 1895. 



Daniel 3. IkCUefiCh cannot be said to exem- 
plify the maxim that old men should be chosen for 
counsel and young men for action — hardly that, as 
he was born in the midst of the Civil War, and is 



thus a young man still ; but his success in the trying 
office of district attorney shows that the common 
practice need not in all cases be followed. Mr. 
Kenefick, indeed, has the energy and enthusiasm of 
youth tempered and governed by the wisdom and 
discretion of maturity — a particularly happy com- 
bination of ipialities for the chief prosecuting officer 
of a populous county. 

Born in Buffalo thirty-two years ago, Mr. Kenefick 
ha.s lived there all his life. He was educated in the 
pul)lic schools of the city, pursued his professional 
studies in a Buffalo office, sought out his life com- 
panion among the charming daughters of Buffalo, 
and has otherwise been thoroughly loyal to the 
place of his nativity. Public School No. 4 was his 
first source of educational inspiration, followed by 
the high school, from which he graduated with the 
class of '81. Foregoing the advantages of a system- 
atic training in a law school, Mr. Kenefick carried 
on his legal studies in the office of Crowley & 
Movius, and in that of their succes.sors, Crowley, 
Movius & Wilcox. With some drawbacks, there 
are in like manner certain advantages in that method 
of reading law, and Mr. Kenefick must have mini- 
mized the obstacles and made the most of the off- 
.setting advantages ; for he was admitted to the bar 
in October, 1884, having accomplished that end 
in about the same time that a course in a law school 
would require. 

He began at once the laborious and sometimes 
di.scouraging task of building up a clientage. His 
jirogress was as rapid as could be expected, and was 
somewhat facilitated, perha|)s, by his early profes- 
sional enlistment in the public service. After prac- 
ticing only slightly more than a )ear, he was 
appointed to a clerkship in the law department of 
the city. He retained this position throughout the 
calendar year 1886, and then resigned to acce])t an 
appointment as second assistant district attorney 
under Ceorge T. Quinby, then district attorney. 
Holding this position five years, and ably discharg- 
ing its duties, he was appropriately rewarded, on 
January 1, 1898, by an ajipointment as first assistant 
district attorney. On the resignation of Mr. Quinby, 
in November, 1894, Governor Flower appointed Mr. 
Kenefick district attorney for the unexpired term. 

Mr. Kenefick had now been in the office of the 
district attorney nearly eight years. Throughout 
this period he had performed zealously and efficiently 
the work assigned to him : and in the latter part of 
his service, owing to the illness of the district attor- 
ney, the chief responsibility of the office rested upon 
him, and was adequately borne by him. Quite 
|)roperly and naturally, therefore, the Rei«iblican 



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|«rt\ in IH!»4 placcil Mr. K-cnctuk in nomination 
for the office of district attorney. The choice of 
the convention was em|)hatically ratified at the polls, 
as Mr. Kenefii k was eleitetl liy the surprising; vote 
of ahiiost two to one. That the jiiiljiment of the 
Republican jiarty and of the voters was sound ha> 
been amply demonstrated by .Mr. Kene- 
fick's efficient service. .Always alert 
and vij^orous in protecting the legal 
interests of Krie county, he is at the 
same time regardful of the rights of 
others, and .scnijiulously careful not to 
overstep the proper bountis of his author- 
ity. His eviilent fair-mindedness and 
just disposition of the difficult ipiestions 
constantly arising in the district attor- 
ney's office, have gained for him uni- 
versal res])ect and confidence among his 
professional a.s.sociates. 

Mr. Kenefick's first legal jwrtnership 
was formed with Joseph V. Seaver. On 
the latter's election as county judge, 
Mr. Kenefick a.ssot iated himself with 
Messrs. Cuddeback and Ouchie. This 
connection la.sted imtil May, \X\y.\. when 
Mr. Kenefick and William H. Love 
combined forces in the existing success- 
ful firm of Kenefick it Love. 

PERSOXAL CHROXOLOGV — 
Daniel Jt>sff>h Kenfji(k 7C'<is born al BtiJ- 
J'ah October I't, ISH-i : U'ii.< ei/iientei/ in 
the public schools of the city, ami grajuateil 
from the hif^h school in J SSI .• Teas nil 
mitted to the bar in ISSIf : married Afaysic 
Germain of Buffalo June •iO, ISOl .• 7i'rt> 
second assistant district attorney of Erie 
county, 1SS7-0*, and first assistant dis- 
trict attorney, ISOS-O^ ,• 7c>as appointed 
district attorney by Goi'ernor FItnuer to 
till an unexpired term in November, IS!)^, and was 
elected to the office the same year : has practiced Ian' 
in Buffalo since 18S4. 



TKltlliam C. "liraueS, though he has pra< tued 
his profcs-sion only a few years, has already become 
recognized as an authority in his specialty of nervous 
disea.ses. Present-day life, with its many imdeni- 
able advantages, has also some drawbacks : and one 
of the greatest of these is the excessive demand 
that it makes on human energx. .Men of business, 
women of fashion, even the very school-children, 
break down under the strain, and become the vic- 
tims of nervous ailments of one kind or another, 
imtil one doubts whether anv healthv minds or 



bodies will be found in the years to come. L'nder 
such circumstances it is but natural that many of 
the younger generation of jihysicians should devote 
themselves to s|pe<ial investigation of such troubles ; 
and few have done this more exhaustively, or with 
brighter promise of brilli.mt sui ( e>s, than Dr. Krauss. 




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Horn ill Wyoming count) in 1M(J.S, he obtained 
his |)re|iaratory education in the .Vttica I'nion 
.School, from which he graduated in 1M80 as the 
valedictorian of his cla.ss. He then entered Cornell 
I'niversity, receiving the degree of IJachelor of 
Science in 1HS4, as well as a two-year certificate for 
extra work done in the medical pre|)aratory course. 
From the beginning his studies were directetl in the 
line to which he has steadily devoted himself; since 
this ))rei)aratory work at Cornell, under Dr. Burt C. 
Wilder, concerned the anatomy and histology of the 
nervous svstem. Dr. Krauss's me<lical degree was 
obtained from the Hellevue Hospital Medical College 
in lSH(i, when he stood second in the honor class. 
.After spending the summer of that year in Bellevue 



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Hospital, he went abroad in the fall, and passed 
three years in the special study of nervous and 
mental diseases. He attended the famous universi- 
ties of Munich, Berlin, and Paris, receiving the 
degree of M. 1)., mux'/ia tiiiii laiuir, from the L'ni- 
versity of Berlin in 1S,S,S. In the spring of IX.H!) 




WILLIAM i\ Kh'.nSS 

he visited the i.ondon medical schools, returning 
home in June of that year. 

Dr. Krauss had some aci[uaintance with Buffalo, 
where his father wa.s well known in commercial 
circles ; and he had already acquired a reputation 
among the members of his profession there as special 
( orrespondent of the Buffalo Afci/ica/ Joiiniti/ dunivj, 
his years of study abroad. He decided, therefore, 
to settle in that city. So long and thorough a prep- 
aration for any calling could hardly fail to ensure 
success therein — certainly not when united with 
such natural abilitv as Dr. Krauss possesses. His 
success has lieen luiinterrupted, and he has nlread\ 
built u]) a large special practice. He has also made 
a reputation as an expert on insanity, and has been 



called upon to testify before the courts in nearly 
every imjwrtant case calling for s\ich testimony in 
central and western New York. 

.•\s a medical writer and instru( tor Dr. Krauss has 
been prominent ever sinc:e he began practii c. Ho 
has been |)rofessor of ])atholog\ in the medical depart- 
ment of Niagara rni\ersity (li^iKMIo), 
and is now ])rofe.ssor of nervous disea.ses 
there. In iJSilO he delivered a course of 
lectures at Cornell L'niversity. He is 
associate editor of the Buffalo Medical 
/(i!/ni<i/, and of several other medical 
publications in both luirope and .\mer- 
ica. He has published si-\ty-five scien- 
tific papers, treating of a variety of 
subjects, and embodying the results of 
much original research in his special 
line. His connection with professional 
societies is unusuallv extensive : he is a 
Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Soci- 
ety of London, and of the .American 
Neurological .Association : he is a mem- 
ber of the American Microscopical Soci- 
ety (of which he is secretary), the 
Buffalo Microscopical Society ( of which 
lie was president in 1892-93), the New 
York State Medical Society, the Medical 
.Yssociation of Central New York (of 
which he was elected first vice president 
October 20, 1«9(3), the Lake Erie Medi- 
cal Society, and the Erie County Medi- 
cal Society. He was one of the found- 
ers of the Buffalo Academy of Medicine 
in 1H92, and was its secretary for several 
years. In 1890-92 he was secretary of 
the Buffalo Obstetrical Society. He be- 
longs to the Buffalo Medical Club, as 
well as to the Liberal and Cniversity 
(lulls of Buffalo, and the Buffalo Associa- 
tion of Cornell .Alumni. He holds the position of 
neurologist in a number of the city hospitals, inchid- 
ing the Erie County Hospital, the Sisters of Charity 
Hospital, and the A.sylum and Hospital of the Sisters 
of St. Francis. 

PERSONAL CHRONOI. OG Y— William 
Cliristophcr Krauss was horn at Attica, N. Y., 
October lii, ISGS : i^radiiatccl from Cornell Univer- 
sity ill 1SS4, ami from Belleviie Hospital Medical 
Colks^e, New York city, in 1880 ; studied in Eiiro- 
[>ran universities, 1886-8!) : married Clara Kricger 
of Salamanca, jY. Y., September J^, 1S!H) ; has prac- 
ticed in Buffalo since ISUO, confining his work to dis- 
eases of the mind and nen'fliis system ; has hcen pro- 
fessor in Niagara Uim^ersity since 18H1. 



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EOwarD C. SbatCr i> «tll ami laxoraUly 
known in i onimcn iai i ir< Ics, and in the political life 
of Buffalo. Few men have l)een so thoron^jhly occu- 
pied with business, and at the same time so promi 
nent in local affairs. Hut .\lr. Shafer posses.ses 
unu.sual cai>acity for j;rai)i)ling with, and i|uickly 
solving, the many jjcrplexing prolilems that arise in 
the course of a mercantile career. The j<rowin^; tie 
mands of his business have in reient years restricted 
his activity in matters of pul>li<' concern, but he is 
thoroughly informed on all public (piestions. 

Mr. Shater is a native of the K.e\st(uie Stale, and 
received there a common-s( hool and an atailemic 
e<lu<ation. .After taking up his residence in liufl'alo 
he pursued a commercial course at Bryant iV Strat- 
ton's Business College in that ( ity. Me began life's 
work with the firm of Barnes, Bancroft iV Co. of 
Buffalo, from who.se employ he went l<' 
serve as bookkeei)er tor ( >. S. (Jarretson 
With this training he embarked in the 
hardware business as a luirlner in tin 
Buffalo Hardware Co., and was con 
net ted with this enterprise for six years. 
He then became manager of the Buffalo 
School I'lirniture Co. The growth of 
their business rendered int orporation de- 
sirable, anil upon the organization of the 
concern as a stock com|)anv Mr. Shafer 
became ilirector. treasurer, and general 
manager. He has retained these posi- 
tions to the present time. The improve 
ment in .school furnishings in recent 
years has been marvelous, but Mr. Shafer 
has kept his i ompan\ in the van of the 
industry. 

In politics Mr. Shafer is a Kepubli 
can, but could not be fairly called a par 
tism. His popularity was .shown when 
he ran for alderman on the Republican 
ticket in the old .'id ward of Buffalo, 
time out of mind a Uemocratic stronu 
hold. Mr. Shafer came within l.'-!2 votes 
(if an election. Two years later he was 
appointed |)olice commissioner by .Mayor 
Becker, and diligently [jerformed the 
duties of that office. In the year 188!i 
he was elected to the office of city comp- 
troller. He .serveil one term to the siUis- 
faction of the people, and would have 
been renominated by his jiarty, had not 
the pressure of private Inisiness com|)elled him to 
decline. In the same year there was a movement 
afoot to elect Mr. Shafer mayor of the city, but the 
s;uiie reasons that obliireil him to decline .1 renom- 



ination lor comptroller made it neces.sary to re- 
nounce as well all thought of the mayoralty. 

The dexelopment and exp;insion of the business of 
the Buffalo Si hool l-'urniture C"o. is due in large jwrt 
to Mr. Shafer's tireless energy and foresight. His 
duties with this comjiany absorb nearly all his time. 
Recently, however, he has been elected president of 
the Standard I'aving Co. of Buffalo : and lor years 
he has been a diret lor of the llyilraulic Bank. He 
is a member of many fraternities, in all of whiih he 
takes a prominent |)arl, and has filled various high 
ortii es. In short, since taking up his residence in 
Bulfalo, .Mr. Shafer has proved him.self not only a 
sound business man, but also one who has the best 
interests of his community at heart. He enjoys a< • 
cordingly in large measure the respe< l and good will 
of his fellow citi/ens. 




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ri'.RSO.\'AL CUKOXOI.OGY—luiwani C. 
Slia/fr tons horn at //oiu-u/ii/r, I'm 11., Af>nl /7. 
tS'til; i-fcei'reti a common-school <ini/tin aciii/fmic ci/iica- 
tioii in rcnnsylrintiii : uiinrt/ lo Huffahi in IS7 .' : 



Mj-:.\ or .\7:ir ]ork- wkster.x s/icr/o.v 



married Elizabeth Anderson of Buffalo June 25, 187^ ; 
engaged in the hardware business, 1877-83 ; was ap- 
pointed police commissioner of Buffalo May 7, 1887 : 
was cit\ comptroller, 1890-01 ; has been connected 
7oith the Buffalo School Furniture Co. since 188-1. 



]ErUCSt 'CQetlDe. ^^'^H known as a successful 
l)hysician in a difficult specialty, and more widely 
known for his remarkable efficiency as health com- 
missioner of Buffalo, was born in Erie county about 
forty years ago. After graduating from the Buffalo 
High School in 1874, Dr. Wende engaged in teach- 
ing two years, and then took up the study of medi- 
trine. His medical education consumed the greater 
part of the ne.xt twelve years, and included attendance 
at Buffalo University, from which he graduated with 
honors in 1S78 ; at the College of Physicians and 
.Surgeons, Columbia ; and at the University of Penn- 
sylvania, whence he graduated with honors of the 
first cla.ss in 1884, and from which he received the 
degree of Bachelor of Science in 1885. In 188o-8(i 
he crowned with the latest results of medical re- 
search an education that was already remarkably 
thorough, studying in Vienna and Berlin, and 
specializing his work on skin diseases and micros- 
copy in the private laboratories of Virchow and 
Koch. In the course of his medical studies Dr. 
Wende won a West Point competitive examination, 
and attended the Military Academy one year 
(1875-76). He practiced medicine at Alden, Krie 
county, in the intervals of his advanced professional 
training. In 187(t he was elected school commis- 
sioner from the first district of Erie county. Since 
his return from Berlin in the fall of 188(), he has 
practiced continuously in Buffalo, and has made 
himself famous for his successful treatment of dis- 
eases of the skin. 

We have saved most of our space for an accoimt 
of Dr. Wende' s work as health commissioner of 
Buffalo. Under this head it is not too much to say 
that his services to the city have been invaluable, 
and will benefit Buffalonians for many years to 
come. Taking office January 1, 1892, by appoint- 
ment from Mayor Bishop, he entered upon his duties 
admirably eijuipped for the work before him. His 
exhaustive professional studies and rare skill as a 
physician were only a part of his (pialifications. 
.\dded to these he possessed unusual executive 
ability, and was thereby enabled to organize a de- 
partment of health that has become a model for 
other cities. Under his administration the death 
rate in Buffalo has steadily decreased, having fallen 
from 2.3. 4>< i)er thousand of population in 1891 to 
11. (!7 for the first six tnonths of 189f). The deaths 



recorded in 1S!I] were (JOOl in number, while in 
1895, notwithstanding an increase of 80,000 inhab- 
itants, the number of recorded deaths had fallen to 
4(584. These and other statistics are regarded as 
])roof that Buflalo is the healthiest city of its size in 
the world. 

The following are .some of the ways in which |)r. 
Wende has brought about this most beneficent 
result. Formerly records of contagious diseases 
were made by mail at the convenience of the attend- 
ing physician : now all such cases must be reported 
immediately by telephone. Thereupon the health 
office, open at all hours day and night, will dispatch 
a man to inspect the premises, attach ])lacards to the 
house, and adopt such other sanitary precautions as 
may be advisable. To guard against the pollution 
of the city water, daily bacteriological and chemical 
examinations are made. One of the first results of 
this system was to close forever an emergency inlet 
which was formerly used in times of low water, and 
which sometimes let sewage into the public mains. 
Over half the wells formerly used for domestic pur- 
poses were found on examination to contain water 
charged with germ life, and were accordingly filled 
up. The ijeriodical visitation of the public schools 
and annual vaccination of the pupils, minimizes the 
danger of epidemics in the schools. All police sta- 
tions, fire-department i|uarters, and schoolhouses are 
minutely inspected at stated intervals, to ensure 
hygienic conditions. 

The inspection and purification of the milk supply 
of Buffalo in\oi\ed a difficidt piece of organization. 
The banishment of cow liarns from thickly peo- 
l)led districts, and the com])idsory observance by 
milk producers of regulations designed to reduce the 
risks of mothers and children, were at last effected ; 
and now a record is kept of every milkman, so that 
any diseases on his route ascribable to impure milk 
may lead to investigation and appropriate punish- 
ment. .\nother feature of the Wende administra- 
tion that abolishes disease by preventing its birth, 
may be found in the system of inspecting supplies of 
vegetables, meats, and the like, at markets and pro- 
duce houses. Frozen oranges, rotten bananas, and 
other dangerous food, have frequently been con- 
demned. Tenement houses, minor hotels, and lodg- 
ing places are often visited, lest infectious diseases take 
root and spread luidetected. .\ vast amount of sick- 
ness has doubtless been headed off by municipal super- 
vision of plumbing and drainage. No plumbing can 
now be done unless plans therefor arc first filed, 
and approved by experts ; and no householder need 
pay for his plumbing until the completed work is 
])assed upon l)y inspectors and accepted. Without 



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recounting further iht- means ein|)loyc(l l)y l)r. 
Wende to protect the city from disease, suffi( e it to 
say that he has conducted the de|wrtment of health 
on a scientific basis from first to last. 

Dr. Wende is jirofessor of diseases of the skin in 
the medical dejiartmenl of the L'niversity of liuffalo. 
and of botany and microscopy in the 
College of Pharmacy. He is greatly 
intercsteil in geology, botany, and the 
natural sciences generally, and is pro- 
foundly erudite in these subjects. He is 
al.so an archa;ologist, and has brought to 
light many interesting relics in his nu- 
merous country walks aroiuid western 
New York and Ontario. The Buffalo 
Society of Natural Sciences is indebted 
to him for many valuable contributions. 

Dr. Wende belongs to the P-rie County 
.Medical Societv, the New York State 
Medical As.sociation, the American Mi- 
croscopical Society, and the Pan-.\mcri- 
can Medical Association. He was re- 
cently elected vice i)resident of the 
American Public Health A.ssociation. 
He is a Fellow of the Klectro-'l'hera- 
peutic Association, and of the Royal 
Microscopical Society of England. 

/>£/fS O.V.I I. CHR O.XOL OGY — 
Ernest Wende icas horn al .Mill Grore. 
iV. v., July 23, ISoS ; graduateJ from 
the Buffalo Hii^h Sc/wol in 1S74, front 
the meilical department of the L'niversit\ 
of Buffalo in ISIS, and from the Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania in 1SS4 : studied in 
the niedieal department of Columbia Col- 
lei;e, JSSl-SJ, and in the universities oj 
Berlin and Henna, ISSoSU : married 
Frances Harriet Cutler of Omaha, Neh. , 
August J-'>, ISSl : has practiced his pro- 
fession at Buffalo since Noi'emher, ISS'ti ,• has been 
health commissioner of Buffalo since January, ISHJ. 
•*• 

t>Omiin /ID. .1L>la?^Cll, for years jjast one of 
the leading ( iti/ens oi .North Collins, Krie county, 
was born in I'errysburg, N. Y., in 1x40. His edu- 
cation was varied, beginning with the ilistrict school, 
and including attentlance at Cowanda Academy and 
( )berlin College. He also taught school two winters 
in the town of Persia, Cattaraugus county, before 
going to Oberlin. He left college to continue his 
education in one of the finest possible schools of 
discipline — the Cnion anny during the Rebellion. 
Kniisting in the first year of the war, in com|«iny 
H, 44th New York volimteers, he remained in the 



army until July, |X(i2, when he was wounded so 
seriously in the fight at Malvern Hill, the last of the 
"Seven Days' liattles," that he was com|)clletl to 
leave the service. 

Like thousands of (Uher bright young men, Mr. 
Itlasdell began his business career as a telegraph 




operator. He was soon promoted to the position of 
station agent, and ser\eil in that ca|>iicity for nine 
years at Smith's .Mills, Chautauijua county. Wisely 
concluding that such work was not likely to result in 
financial in(lei)endence or an as.sured |)Osition in life, 
.Mr. Hla.sdell formed a [artnership with David Sher- 
man at North Collins, for the conduct of a general 
mercantile business. They commenced operations 
April 1, 1N72, and carried on a successful business 
for the next five years. 

To many people Mr. Hlastlell is known chiefly 
through his connei lion with the suburb of Huflalo 
founded by him an<l bearing his name. In 1Hk;{ he 
bought a large tract of land in the northern lart of 
Hamburg, Krie county, and laid out there the town 



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of Rlasdell. He caused a post office to be estab- 
lished at the place, and was the first postmaster ; 
and he conducted a general store there for several 
years. He still owns much valuable property at 
Blasdell, and is naturally greatly interested in the 
prosperity of the town : but in 1><.S7 he returned to 




//E.-[f.lX .\r. BLASDELL 

North Collins, and has since resided there. In a 
business way he has concerned himself chiefly with 
real estate. 

As might be expected from his prominence in 
business affairs, Mr. Blasdell has likewise attained 
distinction in political life. He was supervisor of 
the town of North Collins for the three years, 187X- 
80. In November, 1895, he wa.s elected to the state 
legislature from the 8th assembly district by the 
largest majority ever given to a candidate in his dis- 
trict, and in November, 180(J, he was re-elected. 
He was appointed by Governor Morton in 1895 a 
trustee of the Thomas Asylum, an institution for 
orphan Indians on the Cattaraugus Indian reserva- 
tion. He is now trea,surer of the institution a.s well. 



His service in the Civil War has given Mr. Blasdell 
a place in the Grand Army of the Republic, and he 
is a Past Commander of the S. C. Noyes Post. He 
has taken an active part in Masonry, having member- 
ship in Fortune Lodge, No. 788, F. & A. M., 
(lowanda Chapter, No. l-lfi, R. .\. M., and Sala- 
manca Commandery, No. (j2, K. T. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— 
Heman M. Blasdell 7uas born at Perrys- 
hufg, Cattaraugus county, N Y. , Janu- 
ary 28, 184-0; took part in the Civil War, 
1861—62 ; married Lusannah Sherman of 
North Collins, N. K, June 8, 1864; 
was telegraph opei-ator and station agent 
at Smith's Mills, N. Y, 1863-72; con- 
ducted a general store at North Collins, 
1872-77 ; was supen'isor of North Col- 
lins, 1878-80 ; founded the town of Blas- 
dell, Erie county, N. Y, in 1883, and 
engaged in business there, 1883-87 ; was 
elected member of assembly in November, 
1895, from the 8th Erie-county district, 
and 7uas re-elected in 1896 ; has lived in 
N^orth Collins since 1887. 



MilUam Boohstaver, mayor of 

Dunkirk, N. W, and for many years 
thoroughly identified with all that is 
good in the city, is of Dutch descent, 
and was born in Montgomery, N. Y., in 
the last days of the year 1833. His 
ancestors are traceable in this country, 
through various paths of honor, from the 
year 1732, when his great-grandfather, 
Jacob Boochstaber (as the name was 
then spelled), came from Holland, and 
settled in Orange county. New York. 

Mr. Bookstaver graduated from Mont- 
gomery Academy in 1852, and afterward 
taught in the same institution for one year. His 
ultimate purpose was to practice law, and in April, 
1^55, he went to Dunkirk to prcjiare himself for the 
legal [jrofession. After studying in the office of 
Brown & Bookstaver he was admitted to the bar in 
1858. 

A sountl knowledge of law is an invaluable piece 
of equipment for any business man, and this fact 
has not infrequently encouraged lawyers to use their 
talents chiefly in the conduct of business affairs. So 
it has been in great part with Mr. Bookstaver. He 
has transacted a good deal of office law business ; 
but he engaged in real-estate ventures on a large 
scale soon after his admission to the bar, and the.se 
operations, together with other business pursuits, 



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2«>1 



have absorbed his time and attention to the exchi- 
sion of active legal practice. He showed his faith 
in the future of Dunkirk by making large real-estate 
investments in different jtarts of the city ; and he 
has long been one of the heavic'st individual lax- 
|jayers of the place. He is i)residcnt of the Dun- 
kirk Savings and Loan .\.s.sociation, which ha.s 
heli)ed many worthy men to aciiuire homes and 
property. He was prominent in the organization of 
the Dunkirk, Warren iS: I'ittsburg railroad, now the 
Dunkirk, .\llegheny Valley & I'itt.sluirg, and was 
one of the original directors of the company. 

The story of Mr. Bookstaver's political career is 
long and interesting, and extremely significant of 
the esteem in which he is held by his fellow-citi/.ens. 
He has served Dunkirk, as village and ( ity, in every 
department of munii ipal administration. While 
the place remained a village he was suc- 

(cssively its clerk, attorney, treasurer, , 

and president. In lS7o he was elected 
sn])ervisor from the town of Dunkirk, 
and remained on the board, with the 
exception of a single twelvemonth, for 
sixteen years. .\t the end of that |)eriod, 
in IXill), he declined a unanimous nomi- 
nation for re-election, as he was about 
to make an extended foreign tour. In 
IMSo he was appointed one of the water 
commissioners, and is still on the boaril. 
In IXKT he was a|)pointe<l mayor of 
Dunkirk to fill the vacancy caused by 
the resignation of M. L. Hinman, and 
the next year he was elected to the same 
office. He was re-elected in 1S8*) and 
again in |H!K|, and in 1H!)(J he was once 
more summoned to the mayor's chair. 

While mayor, in IHHM, Mr. Hook- 
staver devoted much time to the estab- 
lishment of a system of munici|)al electrii 
lighting, believing that in this way the 
city could .secure the best results at a 
minimum cost. Dunkirk was the j)io- 
neer in this movement in the state, and 
the i)lan met with fierce op|)osition. 
The mayor, sup|)orted by the common 
council, argued the matter before the 
governor and both branches of the legis- 
lature, and carried it through the courts. 
It was a test case of munici|)ality 7'ersus 
monopoly, and Mayor Bookstaver's un- 
tiring efforts were finally crowned with siicces.s. So 
high an authority as 1'rofes.sor Richard T. Kly, the 
well-known economist and advocate of municiial 
ownershij), gives Mr. Bookstaver great credit for 



this achievement ; and the fact that lights are fur- 
nished in Dunkirk at to cents a night each a.s 
I <)m|jared with "lO cents in B;iltimore and I!") cents 
in Boston, where the service is obtained from jirivate 
corporations, is a strong argument in favor of his 
theory. 

For many years Mr. Bookstaver has been well 
known in state jKilitical circles a.s an earnest Demo- 
I rat. In l«7(> he was a delegate to the Democratii 
national convention at St. I.ouis that nominated 
Samuel J. Tilden for the presidency. In 1HK7 he 
was apjiointed by (Jovernor Hill a member of the 
committee on prison-labor reform, and served as 
chairman of the .same. 

PERSONAL CHROXOLOGY—WilluunBook- 
itaver 7l'(i.< horn at Moii/^^onifry, Oraiis;e county, N. )'. , 
Dfcemhfr JS, IS.l-i : ran filiiiatfii in .\[ont:'omery 



1 




W II I I \\l iiniiK< r 1 1 f-A- 

Acdiifiny ; stiiiiifd /aw in Dunkirk, X. J '. , ami 7i<as 
aJmittfii to thf bar in h'i.'iS ; married Mary A. 
Leonard of Aii:iiiila, Me., July ]S, IStll : ivas 
suf>erfisor for the tiion of Dunkirk, IS7-'t-!Ml, with 



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the exception of one year ; was a delegate to the Demo- 
cratic national convention in 1876 ; was mayor of 
Dunkirk, 1887-90, and was again elected in 1896 ; 
has practiced laiu in Dunkirk and engaged in real- 
estate operations there since 1858. 




JAM/-:S CHALMERS 

3amC3 CbalmcrS is one of the sturdy, ener- 
getic sons of Scotland who form so respectable an 
element of the population of western New York. 
He was born near Edinburgh, a poor boy, and owes 
his success to his pluck, perseverance, and intelli- 
gence. His schooling was brief. It began when he 
was seven years old, and ended at thirteen when he 
left Gillespie's Free School, in Edinburgh, with the 
medal awarded for the highest average in all 
branches of the curriculum. He then taught school 
in Edinburgh until he was sixteen, and afterward 
Ijecame an apprentice to an Edinburgh machinist. 
But his work in the school, and later in the machine 
shop, was only a part of what the boy did. From 
the age of eight, in addition to his other duties, he 
had worked in a gelatine factory. His father had a 



contract to produce gelatine at a fixed price, and 
to reduce the expense of manufacture James had 
to labor in the factory from early morning until the 
school bell rang, and again after school until bed- 
time. Thus he had no chance for study at home, 
and his award of honors at school is the 
more noteworthy. When he became a 
machinist's apprentice, his extra labor 
continued ; and after walking three miles 
night and morning to and from the 
machine shop, he had to spend a few 
hours at the gelatine factory assisting 
his father. This manner of life lasted 
until he was twenty-one. 

This was a hard apprenticeship, but it 
is the kind that develops and strengthens 
character if the soil is fit. When, there- 
fore, James Chalmers came to this coun- 
try, in 1872, to seek his fortune, he was 
po.ssessed of qualities that ensured his 
success. He worked first at the spring- 
hammer works in Williamsville, Erie 
county, N. Y., and then in the Erie-rail- 
road repair shops at Susquehanna, Penn. 
While he was thus working for others he 
formed the determination to engage for 
himself in the manufacture of gelatine. 
He had no means, but he did have a 
knowledge of the methods of manufac- 
ture acquired by many years' weary 
labor ; and, what was no less valuable, 
he had confidence and perseverance, 
willing hands, and a robust constitution. 
He began business as a manufacturer in 
1(S7."? at Williamsville, where there was 
an abundant supjily of the pure spring 
water essential to the production of gel- 
atine. Without money, progress at first 
was slow ; but the result was what might have been 
expected — succe.'^s. 

Mr. Chalmers's brother, Peter Chalmers, was a 
partner in the business until 18X2, when he moved 
to Texas. Since then James Chalmers has conducted 
the business alone, with steadily increasing success. 
His product is sold throughout the United States. 
The original factory has been greatly enlarged, and 
recent improvements include a drying room one 
hundred and fifty by fifty feet in area, containing 
over five thousand feet of pipe, and capable of 
evaporating eight hundred gallons of water a day. 

Mr. Chalmers has always refused to accept nomi- 
nations for political office, but his town.smen have 
insisted ujwn his filling several positions of trust and 
honor. He is a member of the board of education 



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of the Williamsvillc High School, president of the 
board of trustees of the village, and president of the 
Williamsville hoard of water commissioners. He 
has always taken an interest in educational matters, 
and hxs shown himself in many ways a man of public 
spirit. He w;is instrumental in having Williamsville 
connected with BufTiilo by electric railway, and was 
at one time vice president and manager of the road. 
His standing among food-producers was shown by 
his election as a director of the National Pure Food 
Manufacturers' Association. Mr. Chalmers is a 
member of all the Ma.sonic bodies up to the .'fid 
degree, and of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. 

/'/i/iSOA'.-t L CUR O.VOL OG Y—Janifs 
Chalmers was born at Gorgie Mills, near Edinhuri^h, 
ScollanJ, Oitoher 7,7, ISJ,!, : was etliiiateil at Gilles- 
f>ie' s Free School, EJinhiiri^h : marrieil Helen W'ihoii 
of Peebles, SedtlanJ, Aii}-us/ JS, ISW : 
eame to Ameriea in 1S7J : estahlisheil the 
Chalmers )^elatine factory at \\illiams7-illc. 
N. Y., in 187 S, and has condiicteil the 
same since. 



30i3Cpb Hb. CongOon, a promi 
nent lawyer of Cattaraugus county, and 
otherwise well known in western New 
York, was born about fifty years ago. 
His general education was obtained in 
the district schools of his native county 
and in Randolph Academy, while his 
professional studies were carried on in 
the office of Jenkins & Coodwill at l-',ast 
Randolph. He rounded out his legal 
knowledge by taking a course at the 
.Mbany l^w School. Completing his 
work there in the summer of lISTO, he 
was admitted to the bar in October of 
the same year. Mr. Congdon had s|)ent 
most of his life in Randol])h and vicin- 
ity, and wisely decided to cast in his lot 
with those who knew him best. He be- 
gan the practice of law, therefore, at 
Kast Randol|)h on June 1, 1«71, in |>art- 
nership with his brother, Benjamin V. 
Congdon. The firm of Congdon iV 
Congdon tarried on a succe.ssful legal 
business until Se[)teniber 1, IMT."^ when 
Mr. Congdon associated him.self with his 
(iither-in-law, M. 'I'. Jenkins, for the 
pur])Ose of practicing law in l-'redonia, 
Chautauniia county. This ])artnership lasted two 
years, or imtil Mr. Congdon decided to leave Kre- 
donia, and carry on his profession in the neighbor- 
ini; town of (iowanda. 



Ihis wxs in September, 1M7.'), and since then, with 
the exception of three years' residence in Buffalo, in 
18H2-H4, Mr. Congdon has made C.owanda his 
abiding-place. That the choice of location was wise 
seems clear from his subsei|uent success, though 
eipial prosperity might have rewarded his efforts 
elsewhere. He rose to prominence quickly in the 
political and social life of (Jowanda, while his |)ro- 
fessional practice became gratifyingly large an<l im- 
portant. Hy the year 1«S(I he was so well estab- 
lished in the regard of his fellow-citi/.ens that they 
electeil him to the state legislature from the 2d 
as,sembly district of Cattaraugus county ; ami in ISMl 
he was re-elected. While in the as.seml)ly he was a 
member of the judiciary committee, one of the most 
important in the legislature, becoming chairman of 
the committee in his second year of service. In 




Josiil'H M. taxcoox 

November, 1 «!(."), he again received sulistantial evi- 
dence of his |>opularity in his election to the office 
of district attorney of Cattaraugus county. He is 
now discharging efficiently the duties of this office. 



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the term of service ninnins^ for three years from Jan- 
uary 1, 1«96. His firm is now styled J. M. & (i. M. 
Congdon, his son (Ucnn ha\ing been taken into 
partnership. 

One feature of Mr. C'ongdon's work in the legisla- 
ture is worthy of special mention. Durina; his first 




TntOTHV E. El.I.SW ORTH 

term in the assembly he became greatly interested 
in the codification of law. Year after year jjenal, 
criminal, and civil codes had been introduced, but 
had died in one house or the other : and nothing 
more than this had been accomplished up to ihe end 
of Mr. Congdon's first )ear in the legislature. In 
his second year there, as chairman of the t:ommittee 
on judiciary, he was in a position to indulge his 
interest in codification, and to accomplish something 
where others had failed. During the first week of 
the session he introduced all three codes, and pushed 
them unremittingly through all the necessary stages 
of legislation until they were before the governor 
for approval. The penal and criminal codes were 
api)roved by (lovernor Cornell, though the civil 



code was returned without a])proval after the 
adjournment of the legislature. This work placed 
Mr. Congdon in close connection with David 
Dudley Field, and a friend.ship was formed between 
the two men that lasted until the death of Mr. Field. 
.Mr. Congdon naturally regards with much satisfac- 
tion his part in the work of codifying 
criminal law and criminal procedure. 

Mr. Congdon has membership in vari- 
ous fraternal societies. He is a Mason, 
belonging to Phoenix Lodge and Cio- 
wanda Chapter ; he is a charter member 
of Lodge No. 4(i, .\ncient Order of 
United Workmen ; and he belongs to 
(lowanda Lodge, Knights of the Macca- 
bees. 

PERSOXAL CHROXOLOGY— 
Joseph Miller Congdon ivas born at Na- 
poli, Cattaraugus county, N. V. , January 
l.i, 18^0 : attemted district schools and 
Randolph Academy : Teas admitted to the 
/>ar in 1870 : married Alice M. Jenkins of 
East Randolph, N. Y., May 2^, 1871: 
practiced hnv at East Randolph and at 
Fredonia, 1871-7-'> ; loas member of as- 
sembly from Cattaraugus count)', 1880- 
81 : ivas elected district attorney of Catta- 
raugus county in N^ovember, 1895 ; lived 
in Buffalo, 188J-84, but has othenmse 
practiced laiv at Go7tiatida, /V. Y. , since 
September, 187h. 

•♦• 

UimOtbS ]£. JEUSWOrtb is a law- 
yer. He is descended from New Eng- 
land stock. For generations the Ells- 
worths were a Connecticut family, and 
there the subject of this sketch was born, 
in the ancient town of i'last Windsor. 
His early training was received in public 
and private schools, and he took his bachelor's 
degree from the L'niversity of Rochester. He then 
studied law, and after his admission to the bar set- 
tled at Lock|)ort. 

When the Civil War broke oul, .Mr. Ellsworth 
raised a com|Muy of volunteers at Lockport, and 
became its captain. This company was attached to 
the 7th regiment, New York volunteer cavalr\ . and 
served till di.sbanded in 18()'i. Mr. Ellsworth con- 
tinued in the army, and was on the staff of (leneral 
Wadsworth in the battles of Chancellorsville and Oet- 
tysburg. He was honorabl}' discharged in September, 
1X()5, having attained the rank of major by brevet. 

Resuming the practice of his profe.ssion at Lock- 
port, Mr. Ellsworth soon became known in legal 



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circles and in piil)lic affairs. He wivs an ardent 
Re|nil>lican, and a warm supporter of (leneral 
(Jrant. Mr. Kllsworth held the office of collector 
of customs at Susiiension Hridj,'e, N. V., during 
(Irant's two administrations. In the conduct of 
political camiaigns Mr. Kllsworth has been active ; 
and his availability, as well as ability, has been 
recognized by his [wrty, which has three times 
elected him to the state senate. He has taken high 
rank in that body, and has served on its im|jortant 
committees, such as the committee on judiciary and 
the committee on rules. He is at present senator 
from the 4'>th district, and president pro teinpoir of 
the senate. .As a legislator he is industrious, con- 
sen'ative, and sagacious, and strives to give his 
constituents the best service in his power. 

In .\lr. Kllsworth's practice at the bar he has two 
partners, who with him form the firm of 
Kllsworth, Potter iS: Storrs. .\side from 
his law business he is connected with 
a number of banking and mercantile 
hoii.ses. He is president of the National 
K.xchange Bank, and vice president of 
the (."ounty National Bank ; and a direc- 
tor in the Holly Manufacturing Co., the 
Niagara Paper Mills, the Traders' Pa|)er 
Co., and the llartlanil Paper Co. To 
these enterjjri.ses, as well as to his profes- 
sion and his public duties, he devotes 
him.self with conscientious effort. He is 
a member of the l'".|)iscopal church, and 
of the Crand .Army of the Republic. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOG Y— 
Timothy Eihoards Ellnvorth jcuis horn 
tit East W'iniisor, Conn., Sfptcmhi-r 21, 
ISSIJ : nuts eJucatfd at piiblii and pri'ratt' 
schools, and graduated from the Unhersity 
of Rochester in 1857 ; 7oas admitted to the 
har at Rochester in 1858, and fies^an prac- 
tice at Lockport, N. Y. : senrd in the 
Union army, 18lll-tj.') : married, on Feb 
riiary J, 1804, Orissa Af. Shoemaker oj 
Lockport, who died October 28, 181)5 ; 
ivas collector of customs at Suspension 
Bridge, N. Y., 1870-78, and state sen- 
ator, 1882-85 ; loas elected state senator 
from the 45th district in 18!>5 : has prac- 
ticed law at Lockport since 18li5. 

lUlUiam 3B. 3acl;S0U is a self- 
made man. Starting with nothing whatever, in a 
small country town, without advantage from family 
connection, and entirely dependent from the first 
on himself alone, he has aojuired a substantial com- 



petence, and established himself firmly among the 
leading men of his community. All this he has 
done in less than forty years of life. Tireless 
energy, keen business judgment, and strict integrity 
have been the main fa( tors in his success. 

Mr. Jackson's grandfather was a pioneer in Krie 
county, going thither early in the century from 
Vermont, and o|)ening up a farm in Holland on 
some high land that still re< alls his origin in the 
name ••\ermont hill." There Mr. Jackson was 
l)orn in March, 1H.')H. His early years were as 
busy as his whole life has been, since he lost his 
father at the age of eight. His mother, left with 
limited means, worked with untiring zeal and 
energy, thereby helping and encouraging her five 
children to heli> themselves anil each other. After 
working on a farm most of the time, and attending 




II ////./.I/ II. J II A S'M 

the district and a select school some of the time. 
William secured a clerkship when sixteen years old 
in the general store of Morey iV Stickney, Holland. 
He worked three months for nothing, merely to 



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show what he could do, and several months more at 
a trifling salary ; but he gave his whole time to the 
business day and night, working as hard and as faith- 
fully as if the store had been his own. All this 
was duly ajjpreciated by his employers, and in less 
than two years Mr. Stickney surprised his youthful 
clerk by inviting him to become his partner. Mr. 
Jackson had only $204, which he had saved from 
his earnings, but his character and reputation 
enal)led him to borrow enough to form the partner- 
ship. On March 24, 1870, accordingly, when he 
had just turned his eighteenth year, the firm of 
Stickney & Jackson began its successful career. 
Five years later, on March 3, 1881, they ]nirchased 
the general store of O. W. Childs at Protection, 
N. Y., which was carried on in connection with the 
store at Holland. The partnership continued seven 
years, during which Mr. Jackson made rapid prog- 
ress in establishing himself as a prosperous business 
man and respected citizen. In March, 1883, Mr. 
Stickney found it convenient to retire from the 
business ; and Mr. Jackson had so prudently con- 
ducted his personal affairs that he was able to buy 
out his partner, and become sole proprietor of the 
establishment that he had entered as a boy nine 
years before. Since the date mentioned Mr. Jack- 
.son has carried on the business alone with entire 
success. His place to-day is one of the most com- 
plete country stores in western New York. In addi- 
tion to this enterprise Mr. Jackson has various out- 
side interests that require some of his business 
attention. He owns pine lands in Mississippi, farm 
lands in South Dakota, and suburban property in 
Buffalo, together with choice bits of real estate in 
Holland. 

The proprietor of a general store in a small town 
has an excellent chance, if he have also the requisite 
ability, to make himself a power for good in the 
public affairs of the community. In the case of 
Mr. Jackson ability was not lacking, and for mam- 
years he has had .something to do — usually a good 
deal to do — with everything of much im|)ortance 
that has gone on in Holland. Beginning with the 
position of town clerk in 1880, he has been suc- 
cessively overseer of highways for three years, dur- 
ing which he was largely instrumental in bringing 
the roads of Holland to a high degree of excellence ; 
])0stmaster of Holland during Harrison's adminis- 
tration, 188!l-i)3; and supervisor for the years 
18f);')-!)6. He has also been Reiniblican committee- 
man from his district for a number of years. In 
semi-public, non-political affairs he has been equally 
active, and many improvements in Holland are 
a.scribable in large part to his efforts. In l.S!)l he 



helped to organize the Holland Water Works Co., 
and has been president thereof from the start. In 
1893 he interested himself in the establishment of 
a local bank, subscribing for a large block of the 
stock, and has been president of the institution 
from the beginning. He has been local treasurer 
of the Farmers' Fire Relief Association since 1887, 
and of the Rochester Savings and Loan Association 
for several years. He has also been treasurer of the 
Holland fire department since 1894, besides holding 
other offices that require much of his time. Mr. 
Jackson belongs to various fraternal societies, in- 
cluding the Ma.sons, Odd Fellows, Knights of the 
Maccabees, and Order of the Iroquois. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— William 
Byron Jackson tvas born at LLolland, Erie county, 
N. V. , March 20, 1858 : attended district and select 
schools ; was clerk in a country store, 187^-76 ; 
married M. Zina Vau;:;han of Holland January 12, 
1881 ; u>as tottin clerk in 1880, overseer of highways, 
1887, 1888, atid 189^, and postmaster of Holland, 
1889-93 ; has been a member of the Erie-county board 
of supervisors since 1895 ; has conducted a general 
store at Holland since 1876 ; has been president of the 
Bank of Holland sitice its organization in 1893. 



MilbCr jFiSh IPerSOnS is still comfortably 
distant trom ihc prime of life, but has already 
achieved business success and attained political 
distinction in a noteworthy degree. He was born 
in Delevan, Cattaraugus county, N. Y., and has 
lived there most of his life. In his youth he spent 
five years, however, on the western frontier, and 
graduated from the high school in Omaha, Neb. 

Mr. Persons began his business career at the age 
of nineteen, as a telegraph operator on the Union 
Pacific railroad. After returning to western New 
York in 1876, he resumed railroad work, becoming 
assistant division superintendent of the Buffalo, 
New York & Philadeljihia railroad (now the West- 
ern New York iv Pennsylvania). Concluding that 
greater rewards awaited him in an entirely different 
calling — a conclusion amply justified by the result 
— Mr. Persons purchased the Delevan Fress in 
IMS", and thus embarked in the business of news- 
paper publishing. The venture prospered from the 
beginning, insomuch that he was emlwldened two 
years later to establish the Revieiv, at Holland, Hrie 
county. The next year, 1890, brought into being 
the Cenwr oi Sardinia, F>ie county ; and in 1893 
Mr. Persons purchased the Wyoming County Record. 
Since the latter date he has conducted with increasing 
success the four weekly newspa])ers mentioned. 
They are published in places conveniently situated 



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with reference to each other and to the general 
territory served, and Mr. Persons is able to handle 
with dis|jatch the numerous tletails of his business. 
The country covered l>y his [xijiers is tilled with 
intelligent, conservative, and prosjierous people, 
who appreciate duly and support faith- 
fully such publications as Mr. Persons 
issues. 

Mr. Persons ha.s naturally become 
prominent in the social and political life 
of the communities with which he has 
connected himself. In ISMi he was 
elected justice of the peace on the Re- 
publican ticket over the fusionist repre- 
sentative of the normal majority. In 
1SJ)1 he was a delegate to the Re|)ub- 
lican state convention at Rochester, and 
in l?<lt6 he was a delegate to the conven- 
tion at New York city. He is a Pa.st 
Master of Arcade Ma.sonic Lodge, No. 
419. He also belongs to Springville 
Lodge, R. A. M., and to St. John's 
Commandery, K. '1'., Ulean, N. Y. He 
is a Pa.st Grand of Delevan Lodge, No. 
CU), I. (). <). F. Mr. Persons has al- 
ways taken great interest in everything 
relating to the welfare of Delevan. He 
is president of the Delevan Electric 
Light & Power Co. He was secretary 
of the building committee during the 
construction of the new Delevan Union 
School. He is superintendent of the 
Yorkshire Water Co. 

In his home life and surroundings Mr. 
Persons is |>articularly fortunate, and his 
commodious and elegant dwelling in 
Delevan is a social center for many 
friends. 

PERSOXAL CHROXOLOGY—Wllhfr I-hk 
Persons was bom al Delfvan, X. )'. , X<r;'rm/>rr J.'f, 
ISoS : lived in the II 'est, 1870-7tJ, gradiiatinf; from 
the Omaha High Sthoo/ in June, 1S7-) ; marrieii 
Alice Catharine Stroni; of De/eran June J, IS.SO : 
7('as in the sen'ice of the Union J'aeifie railroaJ, 
lS7o-7(l, and of the Buffalo, New York cs- Phila- 
delphia railroad, 1870-84 : has conducted various 
weekly nnvspapers in western New York since 1SS7. 



community is more influential in molding public 
opinion than the great ncws|)a|)er of a metroiK)lis. 
The ( olumns of the village jiaper are more thoroughly 
read, and more completely, because more leisurely, 
digested. The great dailies illustrate the well-known 




H^am X. "KiUCWalt his long been a factor in 
the iicw.-.i>,i|icr worUl ol western New Vork, and in 
the |)olitical and business affairs of Williamsville, 
where he h;Ls s|)ent the greater |>art of his life. It 
may probably be safely a.sserted that in pro|)ortion to 
the number of its readers the journal of a small 



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economic |)rinci|)le of the division of labor, and the 
work upon them is specialized to a degree that 
would surprise the uninformed. Each has its political 
eilitor, its financial editor, its news editor, its relig- 
ious editor, and its sjwrting editor. But the editor 
of a country news|)nper must, to a certain extent, 
combine in himself all the varied functions of these 
writers. Therefore a successful editor of such a 
l)ai>er is naturally a man of jvarts, and a controlling 
inlliience in the lives and thoughts of his community. 
.\lr. Rinewalt wxs liorn in Williamsville. where 
his |»arenis were among the early settlers. He 
attended the district school and academy of his 
native town. .\t the age of sixteen he went to 
Heloit, Wis., where he learned the printer's trade, 
thus laying a practical foundation for the profession 



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that was to be his life-work. He returned to New 
York state in his twenty-first year, and secured a po- 
sition with the Covimercial Advertiser, Buffalo, then 
under the control of Matthews & Warren. He re- 
mained with them for nine years, when he established 




.ID.IM /.. RIM-:\\.\I.I 

the AmJicrsf Bee at Williamsville, which he has suc- 
cessfully conducted ever since. 

Mr. Rinewalt is prominent in Williamsville not 
only as a newspaper man, but as a promoter of many 
commercial enterprises. He was among the first to 
urge the building of the Buffalo & Williamsville 
electric railroad, and he is one of the stockholders 
of the company, holding also the offices of director 
and secretary. He has been largely engaged in real- 
estate transactions, and is connected with creamery 
and other business enteri)rises. No man in the com- 
munity is more devoted to its interests. He has 
concerned himself especially with the public schools 
of the town, the establishment of waterworks, and 
other movements tending to the aiUancement of 
Williamsville. 



.\hvays an active Republican, Mr. Rinewalt has 
frequently been called upon to fill various positions 
connected with the organization of his party. He 
was elected collector of .A.mherst in ISSl, and de- 
clined a renomination for that office. For nine 
years he was a trustee of the village of 
- . Williamsville, and during five of tho.se 

I years he was president of the village. In 

188fi he was elected a school trustee. 
I He has served continuously in that posi- 

j tion since, and is now president of the 

! board of education. During President 

Harrison's administration Mr. Rinewalt 
was postmaster of Williamsville. He 
has served on many occasions as a mem- 
ber of campaign committees. Mr. Rine- 
walt is a representative man among his 
fellow-citizens, who have time and again 
displayed their appreciation of his ser- 
vices to the community, and their con- 
fidence in his ability and character. He 
is a memlier of the Masonic order, and of 
several other fraternal organizations. 

PERSONA L CHR ONOL OGY — 
Adam Lorenzo Rineiaalt was horn at 
IVil/ianisvi/Ie, N. K, May i, 1849; was 
educated in district schools and Williams- 
ville Academy : learned the printer' s trade 
at Be hit, Wis., 1865-70; worked at 
his trade in Buffalo, 1870-79; married 
Sarah Filena Bloker of ]Villiamsville Sep- 
tember 18, 1878 ; was postmaster at JVil- 
liamsville, 1889-93 ; established the ''Am- 
herst Bee ' ' at Williamsville in 1879, and 
has conducted the same since. 



Jfranh ]£. Sessions has an in- 
teresting and lionorable lineage. His 
great-grandfalher, John -Sessions, was of English 
descent, and was probably born in Massachusetts : 
his early history is obscure, but it is known that he 
lived for a time at the foot of the (Ireen mountains 
in Vermont, and afterward moved with his son to 
the Empire State. This son, Schuyler Sessions, 
after clearing up a farm in Chautau(iua county and 
tilling the same for a icw years, joined again the 
westward tide of emigration, and settled on the 
prairies of Iowa. One of his sons was Colimibus 
Sessions, the father of our |)re.sent subject. Mr. 
Sessions's mother was Cordelia French, the daugh- 
ter of Samuel French, who was born in Ma.s.sa- 
chusetts, but who became a resident of Chau- 
taucjua coimtv, settling in the town of I'rench 
Creek. 



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Frank K. Sessions was l)orn at the heail of l^ike 
Chautaui|iia, shortly before the middle of the cen- 
tury. When he was five years old his father moved 
to Wisconsin ; ami there, by travelinj,' three miles 
each way every day, Frank was able to obtain siu h 
training as the country schools afforded. He con- 
tinued to attend the district schools of Fond du l^c 
county until he was fil'ieen years of age, when his 
attainments were su< h that he was able to obtain a 
position as teacher. He taught lor seven years in 
the Hadger State, reading and studying law himself 
all the time ; antl engaged in the .same occupation 
after his return to (.'hautaui|ua county. There he 
taught several terms in Sherman, French Creek, and 
the union-school district of C'lymer Village. 

Like a multitude of others, Mr. Sessions aban- 
doned teaching for the law. His imcle, U'alter I.. 
Sessions, was a prominent attorney of Pan- 
ama, fhautaiupia county, and in his ol- 
fice Mr. Sessions began the studv of law 
in lKt!!l. His |)rogress was checkeil by 
a busine.ss engagement in virtue of which 
he became superintendent of the tanning 
works at C'lymer: but he persevered in 
his legal studies so far as opportunity 
permitted, and gained ailmission to the 
bar in .Ajjril, 1X14. In the summer of 
IH7(i he opened an office in Jamestown, 
and has since practiced his jjrolession 
in that city. He was a.s,sociated with 
Henry ( ). I.akin from 1H7« until .Mr. 
l^-ikin's death in \HS4, and with F. F. 
Woodbury for one year thereal'ter. He 
has otherwise practiced alone. 

.Men value most highly and utilize 
best, as a rule, the things that come to 
them with difficulty ; and Mr. Sessions 
has imjjroved to the utmost the general 
and legal education that he acquired .so 
hardly. His thoroughness and accuracy 
in drawing up legal jMpers, and his gen- 
eral vigilance in guarding the interests of 
those who entrust their litigation to him, 
were soon observed and duly ap|)re- 
ciated ; and for many years he has 
enjoyed an extensive and a lucrative 
practice. His professional ability was 
fittingly recognized in 1S«0, when CIov- 
ernor Cornell appointed him special 
county judge of Chautauqua county. His 
work in that capacity was so well done that at the 
end of his appointive term he w.ns elected to the 
s;ime office for three years. In 1H!I."» he was elected 
an alderman Irom the l>t wanl of (amestown, and 



was made chairman of the finance committee. In 
.\pril, 1X!M), he was unanimously elected president 
of the city coinuil, and still holils the position. He 
has always been a public-s|iiriled citizen, and has 
given his time freely to various movements promot- 
ing the welfare of his city. He has taken an active 
|)art in the organization and management of the 
Jamestown Permanent Loan and Huilding .Associa- 
tion, and has been for several years the attorney 
and a director of the institution. The a.s.sociation 
was organized in November, IXHI, and by means of 
it hundreds of families in Jamestown have obtained 
comfortable dwellings of their own. 

Mr. Sessions is a Mason, belonging to .Mt. .Moriah 
Lodge, No. 14'), F. & A. M. He is a prominent 
member of the Methodist Fpi.scopal Church of 
Jamestown, having serxed the society for many years 




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as treasurer, su|)erintendent of Simday .school, and 
otherwise. In political lil'e he has acted with the 
Republican |>;irt\ . He has always been an enthusi- 
astic " Chautauipian," joining the first Normal cla.ss 



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in 1874, and graduating with the first Chautauqua 
Literary and Scientific Circle class in 1882. Mr. 
Sessions is a devoted student of history, and his 
private library is remarkably com])lete in its collec- 
tion of standard works on this fascinating subject. 




OI.n'ER S. \REEI.A\D 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G Y— Frank Edgar 
Sessions was horn at Chautamjna, N. V., May 22, 
18Ii.l ; was educated in the common schools of Wiscon- 
sin; taught school, in Wisconsin and in Chautauqua 
county, N. Y. , 1862-69 ; studied law and engaged in 
business, 1860—74, and was admitted to the bar in the 
latter year ; married Julia R. Bush of Jamestoicn, 
JV. Y. , June 1, 1876 ; 7cias appointed special county 
Judge in 1880, and elected to the same office for a term 
of three years in the same year ; has practiced law in 
Jamestoivn since 1876 ; has been an alderman of 
Jamestown since 1895. 



Oliver S. UrCClauC>, "ho is now serving his 
second term as county judge of Cattaraugus county, 
is a native of the neighboring county of .Mlegany, 



and has always lived in western New York, with the 
exception of four years spent in college. Notwith- 
standing the constant movement of our population 
from the East to the West and from the country to 
the city, there are still many men who have spent 
their lives in a single locality, and have 
risen to prominence among those who 
have known them from lioyhood. This 
happy combination of change and per- 
manence prevents alike stagnation and 
instability, and adds greatly to the 
strength of a community. 

Judge Vreeland was born in the vil- 
lage of Cuba somewhat more than fifty 
years ago. His education, begun in the 
district schools, was unusually thorough, 
including two years' study at Olean 
.•\cademy, a year at Rushford Academy, 
and two years at Alfred University. He 
then took a four years' course at the 
University of Michigan, graduating from 
that institution in 1869 with the degree 
of .\. B. In 1876 his alma mater con- 
ferred upon him the degree of A. M. 

Having decided to enter the legal pro- 
fession. Judge Vreeland read law for 
three years in the office of the late E. 
1). Loveridge of Cuba, and in January, 
1872, he was admitted to the bar. He 
was somewhat older at this time than 
most men beginning legal practice ; and 
he had thus the advantage of greater 
maturity of mind and a more intimate 
accjuaintance with men and affairs. His 
knowledge of law, moreover, had been 
gained under an excellent master, as Mr. 
Loveridge was an able attorney, and one 
of the most ])rominent members of the 
Allegany-county liar. The op])ortunities for pro- 
fessional advancement afforded by his native village 
were meager, and Judge Vreeland determined to 
begin work as a lawyer in the neighboring town of 
Salamanca. Accordingly, in the April following his 
admission to the bar, he opened an office there in 
partnershi]) with Hudson .-^nsley. The new firm 
was successful from the first, and soon built uj) an 
extensive clientage in Salamanca and the surround- 
ing country. In 1879 the connection wa.s dissolved, 
and from that time Judge Vreeland practiced alone. 
Public affairs were always interesting to Judge 
Vreeland, as they are to every good citizen ; and 
in 1879 he became president of the village of Sala- 
manca, holding the position for four years. He was 
then elected supervisor of the town, and served on 



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the board five years. His legal anil executive 
ability had thus been amply demonstrated, and he 
was soon to have an op|)Ortunity to display his 
judicial ability. In IMH? he was elected to the 
office of county judge, and began a term of six 
years January 1, ISISX. So well did he discharge 
the duties of this position that he was re-elected in 
lM!i:{. Judge Vreeland has many i|ualities that 
peculiarly fit him for judicial duties, and his deci- 
sions are generally regarded as both able and iui- 
|>artial. 

In 1H88 Judge Vreeland acted as special coun.sel 
for the lommittce a|)i)ointed by the assembly to 
investigate the Indian |)robleni of the state, and 
wrote the report of the committee. 

PERSONAL CHROXOLOG Y— Olivfi 
S. I'rffland Wiis horn at Cuba, N. Y., Sfpteml'fr J8, 
IS^ ; attended various schools and acad- 
emies, and (graduated from the University 
of Afichigan in ISO'9 ; married Anna A/. 
Guilford of Cuba September 1',, lSli!» : 
was admitted to the bar in 1S7J, and 
began practice at Salamanca, iV. Y. : u>as 
president of the 7'illage of Salamanca, 
lS7f>-SJ, and supervisor, 1S82~8G ; has 
been county Judge of Cattaraugus county 
since Japwary 1. ISSS. 



*CClal?Cn CJb. taarO, a prominent 
citi/en of North Collins, ICrie county, 
is somewhat younger than his well-estab- 
lished place in the medical profession 
might indicate, as he was born at I'er- 
rysburg, N". Y., not long before the 
outbreak of the Civil War. His early 
education was obtained in the district 
school of his native town, and this train- 
ing was supplemented by attendance 
at Angola Academy. He then taught 
school for several years. Having de- 
cided to make the doctor's calling his 
life-work, he availed himself of an op- 
portunity to read medicine with Dr. .\. 
I). I.ake of Perrysburg. His profes- 
sional education was comjiletetl, so far 
as schools and colleges go, at the L'ni- 
versitv of Buffalo, from which he gradu- 
ated in February, l><H."), with an " honor- 
able mention." 

Dr. Ward's prejaration for the work of 
a physician had been long and unusually varied, so 
that he felt able to begin |)ractice soon after gradua- 
tion. He decided ii|)on .North Collins as his field 
of a( tion, correctly judging that the |)lea.sant and 



prosperous country town, with its accessibility to 
large places, would prove a desirable location for 
both residential and professional pur|>oses. He 
opened an office there, accordingly, in May, 1885, 
and has ever since followed his profession in North 
Collins and its vicinity. His practice has grown 
from the small beginning almost inevitable with 
young physi< ians until he now has a large and desir- 
able body of iKiiieiits. He kee])s in touch with his 
fellow-practitioners, and belongs to the Krie County 
.Medical Society and the Uike I'.rie .Medical Soci- 
ety. He has been president of the latter association. 
In social life Dr. Ward hxs naturally been promi- 
nent, ,xs his calling has taken him into the homes of 
the peo|>le, and has made him intimately acquainted 
with large numbers of his fellow-citi/ens and neigh- 
bors. He is a firm believer in the benefits of 




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.Masonry, and has taken high rank in the order, 
belonging to Fortune Lodge, No. 7><8, F. & A. M.. 
Cowanda Chapter, No. l-'JIi, k. .A. .M., and Sala- 
manca Commanderv, No. (i"J. K. T. 



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Dr. Ward has had neither the time nor the incli- 
nation to run for office, but he is an enthusiastic 
Republican, and takes an active part in the conduct 
of local political affairs. 

F£JiS OA'A L CHR ONOL OGY— Walden 
Manlev IVani was horu at Perryshurg, Cattaraugus 




III ARI.es II. WICKS 

county, N. Y. , January 1 1, 1859 ; attended district 
schools and Angola Academy ; married Jennie JVaters 
of Versailles, N. ¥., January 1, IHS-^ : graduated 
from the University of Buffalo in February, 1885 ; 
has practiced medicine at North Collins, N. V. , .since 
May, 1885. 

GbarlCS lb. XimiChS, well known in James- 
town and the surrounding country, is a native of 
Chautauqua county, and has spent practically his 
whole life there. .\t present his name is connected 
with real-estate operations chiefly, but during the 
greater part of his life he has devoted his best efforts 
to the cause of education. Realizing the paramount 
im|)ortance to the country of the public-school 



system, he has striven as teacher, school commis- 
sioner, and member of the school board, to improve 
that system and make it effective, l)ringing its bene- 
fits within the reach of all. 

Mr. Wicks's native town was Ellery, where he 
was born in President Taylor's first year in the 
White House. He received a thorough 
common-school education, afterwards tak- 
ing a four years' course at the Jamestown 
L'nion School and Collegiate Institute. 
He graduated thence in 18(i9, at the age 
of twenty, and began his work as a 
teacher in the following year. His first 
position was in the Clymer Union School, 
and later he taught at Panama, X. Y., 
and at Corry, Penn. 

.\fter a highly successful career as a 
teacher, Mr. Wicks was elected, in 187X, 
a commissioner in the first district of 
Chautautiua county, and held the office 
for four consecutive terms, or until Jan- 
uary 1, 1891. His sphere of activitv 
was thus enlarged from one school to 
many, and the schools of his district 
profited greatly by his able and conscien- 
tious oversight. Having been so long a 
teacher himself, he jiossessed a practical 
rather than a mere theoretical knowledge 
of what was needed for the perfecting of 
the school system ; and the e.xcellent 
condition of the .schools to-day is largely 
the result of his twelve \ears of faithfiil 
and efficient service. 

Since 1891 Mr. Wicks has made his 
home in Jamestown's beautiful suburb, 
Lakewood, where he has large real-estate 
interests. The firm of Wicks Brothers 
had an important part in the establish- 
ment of this village, as well as in the 
development of real estate in the city of Jamestown 
itself, and Mr. Wicks has the prosperity of the new 
commimity greatly at heart. He has been a mem- 
ber of the iioard of trustees of the village ever since 
its organization. His well-known devotion to edu- 
cational interests, and long experience in the man- 
agement of schools, led to his election as a member 
of the school board of Lakewood in 1891 ; and he 
has held the office continuously since, having re- 
cently been elected for another term of three years. 
He takes an active interest in all movements for 
promoting the welfare of the village, and is widely 
known in both business and social circles. He 
is a member of Lakewood Lodge, No. G'28, Inde- 
])endent Order of Odd I'ellows, and of James- 



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town Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of 
Klks. 

PERSONA L CHR O XO L O G Y— Charlei 
Hfni-y Wicks was t>oni at Ellery, N. Y., Odohfr l.'i, 
ISJ^ff : graduated from Jamestcnvn Union School and 
Collegiate Institute in 1800 ; married Florence R. 
Rohhins of Spartanshurg, Penn. , Noremher 0, 1S7S : 
taught school, 1S70-7S : senrd as school commissioner 
in the first district of Chautauqua county, IS70-UI) ; 
has been a member of the school board of Lakewood, 
N. Y., since 1801, and of the board of trustees of the 
village since 180-i : has lived at Lakncood since 
1801, engaged in real-estate business there and in 
Jamesto^ion. 

(BCOrflC 3Balt3 I'elongs to that class of ener- 
getic, self-reliant, and |>rogressive business men. 
happily found in every thriving Ameri- 
can city, who arc best described as good 
all-round men. He is a type of the i)op- 
ular citizen, who knows everybody, and 
whom everybody is glatl to know. 

Mr. Bait/ is a native of Buffalo, having 
been born in the (Jueen City less than 
forty years ago. He has lived there all 
his life, and few men who have grown 
to manhood since the fivil War are so 
well acijuainted as he with events in the 
recent history of Buffalo. His earliest 
remembrance is of the closing days of 
the war, when Buffalo's brave regiments 
were returning from their ])osts of duty 
and of danger. He is a genuine New 
Yorker, ami has compressed into a com- 
|>aratively short life all the activity and 
push characteristic of the (losing years 
of the nineteenth century. 

The educational opportimities within 
reach of .Mr. Balt/'s boyhooil were such 
as the public schools of BulTalo alTorded. 
He received a good common-school 
training, but lacked the means to pursue 
a collegiate course. I'ortunately, how- 
ever, with a fair knowle<lge of reailing. 
writing, and arithinetic, a young man 
endowed with a .sound mind in a sound 
body need have no doubt of winning 
success in this land of promise, .\fter 
spending a number of years in various 
mercantile pursuits, in order to find his 
bent, Mr. Bait/, at last entered the commission busi- 
ness at the Klk-street market in Buffalo. Beginning 
as a clerk in the hou.se of Oatman Brothers, he ob- 
tained an accurate and a detailed knowledge of the 



• ommission business. For thirteen years he labored 
early and late, and succeeded in establishing him- 
self firmly among the merchants of Buffalo on the 
]ir(iduce exchange. 

Meanwhile .Mr. Bait/, had exerted hinvself in the 
|>olitical affairs of the community, and had become 
a local factor in the ranks of the Republican l<arty, 
with whi(h he has always acted. In IH'.U, when 
Fdward ('. Shafer was elected comptroller of the 
city of Buffalo, he appointed his friend and .sup 
porter, Mr. lialt/, to the responsible jjosition of tax 
collector. Mr. Bait/ filled this office so acceplabl) 
that two years later he was nominated by acclama- 
tion, by the Republican convention of Krie county, 
for the important office of county treasurer. The 
result of the ensuing election evinced the wisdom 
of the convention's choii e, and attested the |K)pu- 




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larity of Mr. I^lt/, since he secured a majority of 
over 11,01)0 votes. He is still performing the 
duties of this jKJsition, and is jiroving a safe and 
conservative guardian of public ftmds. 



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Mr. Baltz is a man of genial disposition, and is 
connected with several social and fraternal bodies in 
Buffalo. He is a member of the Buffalo Turn 
Verein, and of three branches of the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows. 




IJF-RnERT />, niSSF.I.I. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G } '— George Raltz 
7vas horn at Buffalo September 17, 18'>7 ; 7oas 
educated in the public schools ; engaged in the produce 
commission business, 1878-91 ; married Ida A. 
Becherer of Buffalo October 1, 1885 ; was tax col- 
lector of the city of Buffalo, 1801-98 ; was elected 
, countY treasurer of Erie county in I8.0-}, for the term 
18!).i-0(;. 



IberbCrt p. BtSSell >» 0"e of the best known 
of the voimgur |)rofessional men of Huffiilo. He has 
been prominent in both law and jjolitics, and has 
shown that such prominence is compatible with high 
standards of citizenship and personal conduct. 

Horn in a little hamlet of Oneida county, he ob- 
tained the beginnings of his education in the district 



.school there, and in the public .schools of Lockport, 
whither his family moved when he was nine years 
old. Four years later he entered De Veaux College 
at Suspension Bridge. Then came the unusual ex- 
perience of two years at the (lymnasium Catharin- 
areum, a public .school at Braunschweig, 
Oermany. From this he returned to en- 
ter Harvard College, whence he gradu- 
ated with the degree of .\. B. in the class 
ofl.s.S{i. 

That summer Mr. Bissell became a 
resident of Buffalo, and began studying 
for his chosen profession, the law. In 
due time he was admitted to the bar. 
For several months he remained as man- 
aging clerk with the firm in whose office 
he had studied. Finally, on January 1 , 

1885, he began practice for himself At 
first he was alone. Then, on July 1, 

1886, he became a member of the firm 
of Brundage, Weaver & Bissell. Six 
months later he entered the firm of Bis- 
sell, Sicard, Brundage & Bissell as junior 
partner ; and with this firm, under the 
style of Bissell, Sicard, Bissell & Carey, 
he remained until its dissolution October 
1, 1896. This firm, founded in 1834 
by Orsamus H. Marshall, was one of the 
oldest and most distinguished in Buffalo. 
Nathan K. Hall, who was President Fill- 
more's postmaster-general, was one of its 
early members. President Cleveland was 
its head when he was elected governor in 
1883 ; and its recent head was President 
Cleveland's late postmaster-general, Wil- 
son S. Bissell. Thus a President of the 
United States and two ])ostmasters-gen- 
eral have been members of the firm. Its 

list of clients was etiually noteworthy, including 
cor]jorations like the Lehigh Valley and the Phila- 
delphia & Reading railroad com|xinies, the Lehigh 
Valley Coal Co., the Lehigh Valley Transportation 
Co., and several Buffalo banks. 

.Among the duties of a good citizen is attention 
to ])olitical affairs. Mr. Bissell is a good citizen, 
and he has been active in politics ever since (Jrover 
Cleveland wa.s a candidate for governor. In 1885 
Mr. Bi.s.sell wa.s nominated by the Democratic party 
for state .senator for the Frie-county district ; and 
though he was defeated by 1500 |)lurality, he ran 
1500 ahead of his ticket. That campaign is yet re- 
membered in Buffalo because of the series of speeches 
in Cierman that Mr. Bi.ssell delivered in the Flast 
Side. He showed a command of classical Cerman 



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that won the admiration of the (Icrmans themselves. 
In 1N!I2 he was nominated for district attorney, and 
this time, out of a total vote of ()"),<ll)t), he was 
defeated by 44. Mr. Bis.sell was one of the foimders, 
and for a time president, of the organization called 
the Cleveland Demoiracy. In his jwlitiial career 
the governing (jualities throughout have been devo- 
tion to princi|)le and strict integrity. 

Mr. Bis.sell is a member of the Buffalo, Saturn, 
and I'niversity i Inbs of Buffalo, and of the Reform 
Club of New York. He has been a trustee of De 
\'eau.\ College since 1><87 ; and has also .served as 
a trustee of the Cary Collegiate Seminary at Oak- 
field, N. Y., and as curator of the Buffalo Library. 

PEJi S O XA I. CHR O N O LOGY— Hfrln-rl 
Porter Bissf// icas born tit New Loiii/oii, JV. 3'., 
Aiii^is/ ■SI), 1S'>(J : was ediicaled at piihlie uhooh, 
De I'eaiix C'i>//ei;e, and the Gymnasium 
Catharinareum, /irai/nse/noei);, Germany, 
and i^radtiated from Ilarrard Collei^e in 
/SSO ; studied law in Buffalo, and was 
admitted to the l>ar in 188S ; married 
Lucy Aj^nes Coffey of Brooklyn October 
■iO, 188J : received the Democratic nomi- 
nation for state senator in 18S5, and for 
district attorney in 18U2 : has practiced 
Ia7v in Buffalo since 1885. 

IROllin X. JBailta, one of the best 
known and most successful physicians 
of Buffalo, is descended from excellent 
Dutch stock. The family tree, taking 
deep root in American soil in Kio!!, is 
an im|>osing specimen of genealogical 
development. One member of the fam- 
ily bore the name of Rip \'an Winkle — 
not the .s;ime good-for-naught Rip, per- 
haps, that Jefferson makes so lovable, 
but possibly the mundane source of 
Irving's delightful fancy. Dr. Banta's 
own father was a famous steamboat build- 
er in his day. The t"irm of Bidwell & 
Banta launched from their yards at Buf- 
falo some of the largest and most mag- 
niticent steamers that had ever sailed the 
lakes, or even the oceans, up to that time. 

Born in Buffalo in November, 1H4(>, 
Dr. lianta has spent most of his life in 
that city. After attending Public School 
No. 4 he went to St. Joseph's .Academy 
three years, and afterward to Manhattan College, 
New York <ity, for a like period. Having thus 
formed an excellent prejaratory groundwork on 
whii h to rest a professional structure, he entered the 



medical dcixirtment of the I'niversity of BtilTalo in 
ISti.S, and graduated therefrom three years later 
with the degree of M. 1). In the spring of lf<7;J 
he opened an office in Krie, I'enn., and continued 
to practice his profession in that city for the next 
five years. .\t the end of that period he returne<i 
to Buffalo, concluding that his old home was |)refer- 
able to any other city for both professional and 
personal rea.sons. Since then he has carried on his 
profession in Buffalo with unifonn success, and with 
an increasingly large practiie. 

Dr. Banta has made no effort to spcciali/.e his 
work, and as a matter of fact his general practice is 
still extensive. He has been so successful, how- 
ever, in the dejartment of obstetrics, that he has 
come to be regarded as a specialist in this subject. 
His standing in the medical profession is shown by 




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his a|ii)ointment to many |iositions of tnist and im- 
IMjrtance. l-"or four years, ending in IHlt.'i, he was 
|)rofcs.sor of therapeutics in the medical dejartment 
iif Niagara I'niversity : and he is now associate 



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professor of obstetrics in the same institution. He 
has membership in the Buffalo Medical Society, 
of which he has been president ; in the Buffalo 
Academy of Medicine ; in the Erie County Medical 
Society, of which he has been president; and in 
the American Association of Obstetricians and 
Gynecologists, of which he has been vice president. 
He is consulting physician in the Buffalo Mater- 
nity Hospital and in other institutions. He has 
written many scientific papers on medical subjects, 
which have appeared in various professional publica- 
tions. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Rollin L. 
Banta luas born at Buffalo November 13, ISJfO ; 
was educated in public and private schools in Buffalo, 
and in Manhattan College, New York city ; graduated 
from the medical department of the University of Buf- 
falo in 1871 ; married Sarah M. Ayer of Buffalo 
October 27, 1875 ; practiced medicine at Erie, Penn. , 
1873-78 ; has been a professor in the medical depart- 
ment of N'iagara University since 1891 : lias practiced 
medicine in Buffalo since 1878. 



/IDarCUS iWi. Drafte vvas born in Cortland 
count)-, New \ork, in l.s;!.^. His ancestors, Eng- 
lish on one side and German on the other, came to 
America in colonial times, settling in New Jersey. 
His father moved to Chautauqua county in 18.'17, 
and there Mr. Drake spent his boyhood on a farm. 
His education was acquired in the common schools 
of Sheridan, near Fredonia, and in the academy at 
the latter place. When si.xteen years old he gave 
up .schools and farm alike, resolved to lead the life 
of a sailor; and ever since, with the exception of 
an honorable interruption during the Civil War, 
Captain Drake, as he came to be called, has been 
connected in some way with the trans])ortation 
interests of the Great Eakes. 

Betaking himself to Buffalo in 1851, he shipped 
before the mast, and sailed the lakes as a common 
seaman for the next four years. At the age of 
twenty he became a mate, and served as an officer 
on various sailing vessels and steamers until 1«()]. 
In that year he was appointed captain of one of the 
I'^rie-railway steamers. He had thus secured a fine 
start in his chosen calling, and might reasonably 
have expected continuous advancement and pros- 
perity. By the summer of 18(52, however, every- 
one saw that the Civil War must be fought out in a 
life-and -death struggle, and Captain Drake did not 
hesitate to exchange his §1200 position and excel- 
lent prospects for the S13-a-month perils and hard- 
ships of a private in the regular army. In August, 
1862, he enlisted in the 72d New York volunteers. 



and went to the front at once with the Army of the 
Potomac. 

Captain Drake's career as a soldier would make 
an interesting narrative in itself. He took part in 
many important engagements, but was neither 
wounded nor captured. He was in the battles 
of Fredericksburg and of Chancellorsville, and 
at Gettysburg his company was ordered forward 
on the first day to a most exposed position, not 
unlike the "bloody angle." The engagement at 
W'appinger Heights, though less memorable than 
the foregoing battles, was sufficiently serious to 
many of Cajjtain Drake's comrades in arms. He 
took part, also, in the dangerous operations around 
Petersburg, in the battle of Five Forks, and in the 
closing scenes of the war at Appomattox. He was 
promoted at various times for valorous conduct in 
the field, and at the close of the war had reached 
the rank of first lieutenant. The document record- 
ing his honorable discharge from service contains 
this fine characterization of Captain Drake as a 
soldier : " An officer whose strict attention to duty, 
gentlemanly deportment, and cool courage has won 
the res])ect of all his comrades." 

Taking up his life on the lakes where he had left 
it three years before, Captain Drake remained in 
the service of the Erie railway, in command of 
various steamers, from the close of the war until the 
fall of 1869. He was then promoted from the 
position of master to that of superintendent of 
repairs of the Union Steamboat Co., controlled by 
the Erie lines. Two years later the Union Dry 
Docks Co. was organized as a part of the Erie sys- 
tem, and Captain Drake, in addition to his existing 
cares, was made superintendent of the company. 
These multifarious duties occupied his time until 
the fall of 1889, when he resigned his position, and 
thus terminated his long service with the Erie. He 
was soon made superintendent of the I-ackawanna 
I'ransportation Co., organized in the same year, and 
has since held that position. After his retirement 
from marine service, where he had made a reputa- 
tion as a prudent and successful navigator. Captain 
Drake built up another and a more important reputa- 
tion as a l)usiness manager of unusual ability. He 
is noted for his uniform courtesy and fair dealing, 
for his fidelity to the interests of his comjiany, for 
his prompt and vigorous dispatch of business. 

In political life C'aptain Drake has always acted 
with the Republican party. In 1878 he was 
elected an alderman of Buffalo from the 11th ward, 
and was re-elected five times, thus serving twelve 
years altogether. In November, 1882, he was 
chosen mayor of Buffalo by the common council. 



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to fill the unexpired term of Crovcr Cleveland, 
governor-elect of New York state. In Decemlier, 
IMIt"), he was ajipointcd by Mayor Jewett a commis- 
sioner of piiMic works of UiilTalo for a term of four 
years from January 1, lX!)(i. Cajjtain Drake has 
shown in the discharge of public duties the same 
integrity and ability that have brought 
him success in business life ; and his 
fellow-citizens, without regard to i>arl), 
congratulate themselves that HufTalo is to 
have the benefit of his counsel in the 
management of an important de|>artment 
for some time to come. 

For more than thirty years Captain 
Drake has been a member of the Masonic 
order. He belongs, also, to the (Irand 
Army of the Republic, having been the 
first commander of William Richanlson 
Post, No. 2")4. He helped to organize 
the Niagara Bank of HufTalo, and has 
been vice president of the institution 
from the beginning. He was largely 
instrumental in the erection at the jKirk 
meadows, HulTalo, of the bowUler monu- 
ment that marks the burial trench of 
three hundred unknown .soldiers of the 
war of 1M12. Another subject in which 
Cajitain Drake has interested him.self to 
excellent purpose in recent years is the 
deepening of the l'>ie canal. As chair- 
man for the last three years of the Mer- 
chants' Kxchange committee on harbor 
and canal improvements, he has labored 
in season and out of .season in behalf 
of BufTalo's lake and canal commerce, 
largely to his efforts will be due both 
the extension of the outer breakwater in 
HulTalo harbor to Stony Point, and the 
enlargement of the lOrie canal to a uni- 
form depth of nine feet. Both these imi)rovements 
will strengthen the commercial |>osition of Buffalo. 

PERSOXAL CJIROXOLOGY—Maniii 
Metier Drake was born at Homer, N. Y. , Septemhcr 
7, 18S'> : atteiided common schools ami Frei/oniit 
(N.y.) AcaJemy : ser-red as sailor, officer, ani/ master 
on the Great Lakes, 1851-62 ; serro/ in the Union 
army from August, 18U2, until the close of the 7oar : 
married Mary A. LuJlotu of Buffalo December 17, 
18117 : was on the staff of the Erie railway as captain 
ami superintendent, 1W.')-S8 .• has been superintendent 
of the Lackaioanna Transportation Co. since August, 
1888 ; 7t<as alderman of Buffalo, 1870-00 : is com- 
missioner of public 7i<orks, Buffalo, having been ap- 
pointed for the term 180(J-00. 



30bU ■flxClDCCbOUiJC "s descended on one 
side, as his name suggests, from Dutch ancestors, 
while his mother's people were from Connecticut. 
His life and character have been influenced by liolh 
lines of descent, and his prosperity is the natural 
outcome of a happy combination of Dutch indus- 




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try and prutlence with N'ankee enterprise anil 
energy. 

Born in .Albany county. New \ork, in 1«2."{, Mr. 
Kelderhouse pa.s.sed his infancy and early boyhood 
in that jiart of the stale. When he was nine years 
old he went West with his father, rea< hing Buffalo 
in the fall of 1«.'}2. That was before the days of 
tnmk lines, and they made the journey by the Krie 
canal, which had been o|)ened seven years before. 
At that lime Buffalo lontained only nine or ten 
thous;\nd people, so thai Mr. Kelderhouse has seen 
the plat e grow from a mere to»vn lo a metro|>olitan 
community, excelling in several im|)orlant respei ts 
every other city on the <oniinent. .After atleiuling 
the common schools of Buffalo he engaged in various 



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0(x;ui)ations, as a young man often will in casting 
about for his proper niche in life. By the year 
1845, however, when he was twenty-two years old, 
Mr. Kelderhouse had established himself as a wood 
dealer, and he remained such for nearly twenty 
years, attaining a high degree of success in the busi- 




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ness. As the country around Buffalo became more 
thickly settled, and the forests gave way to farms 
and habitations, and as coal supjilanted wood more 
and more for domestic purposes and as a generator 
of steam on the Great Lakes, .Mr. Kelderhouse 
wisely adapted his business to the shifting condi- 
tions of the industry. Curtailing his dealings in 
wood, he branched out gradually as a builder of 
vessels, thus jjreparing himself to participate in the 
extension of lake commerce. This extension, as 
everyone knows, has been enormous ; and those 
who, like Mr. Kelderhouse, were wise enough to 
foresee the trend of events, have naturally and 
jjroperly profited from their sagacity. Mr. Kelder- 
house went into the business of building ships 



prudently, but gradually enlarged his plant, estab- 
lishing yards at Bay City and East Saginaw, Mich., 
as well as in Buffalo. His earlier ventures were 
carried on alone, but afterward his operations 
assumed such proportions that he deemed it wise 
and desirable on various accounts to ally himself 
with other capitalists in carrying out his 
])lans. The " Kelderhouse syndicate," 
accordingly, was formed for the purpose 
of building and operating large and mod- 
ern steamers ; and such splendid exam- 
ples of modern naval architecture as the 
"Thomas Maytham," "America," and 
"Brazil" came into existence as a con- 
sequence of this organization. 

It was natural for Mr. Kelderhouse to 
become interested in Buffalo real estate, 
since the bent of his mind is such that 
he foresees clearly the natural order of 
things, and makes such plans as will liest 
harmonize with natural developments. 
This long-headed discernment of the 
future ex])lains his evolution from a 
wood merchant to a steamshi]) owner : 
and the same precious cjuality of intel- 
lect accounts for his success in real 
estate. He is now one of the largest 
owners of real [jroperty in Buffalo, and 
his holdings are not confined to the city 
limits. He has extensive farms along 
the lake shore of Erie county, on which 
he spends happily a good deal of his lime. 
Mr. Kelderhouse has been a Mason 
for forty years or more, belonging to 
p:rie Lodge, No. 161, F. c^ A. M. In 
political matters he votes for the best 
man without regard to party. He has 
attended for many years Trinity Episco- 
pal Church. 
PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G Y— Joint Kelder- 
house luas born at Bethlehem, N. Y., March 18, 
1823 ; moved to Buffalo in 18S2, and was educated 
in the common schools there ; began business as a wood 
merchant in Buffalo in J8i-') : married Jane Eliza- 
beth Coatsworth of Buffalo June 0, 187^ : has been 
en!{a!^ed in lake commerce, as shi/< builder and owner, 
since Lsiil. 

Jfranl? (I. XaUilbliU, railroad lawyer, city 
attorney, corporation counsel, and justice of the 
Supreme Court, has risen rapidly in a profession 
that yields its honors grudgingly, and as a rule only 
after years of devoted service. Not yet in the 
prime of life, and doubtless possessed of latent 



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|)Owers greater even than those foreshadowed !)>• his 
past, he has already attained a ]>osition that will 
splendidly employ his ripening talents. 

Mr. l^ujjhlin was horn shortly lieforc the out- 
break of the Civil War in a country town of Krie 
county. When he was six years old his |Kirents 
moved to Wilson, Niagara coimty, and his youth 
was spent in th;it place. He attended the distric t 
school in winter, worked on the farm in suniiner, 
and otherwise followed the usual life of young men 
brought u]) in the country. In ixyti he moved to 
l.ock])ort, and attended for three years the well- 
known union .school of that phu c. 

Having decided to become a law\cr, .Mr. Uiiigh- 
lin entered the office of John K. I'ond as a student. 
He was admitted to the bar in IMH'i, and shortly 
afterward went to Buffalo for the purpose of i)ractic- 
ing law in the offi( e of Sprague, Morey 
i"v: Sjjrague. This was a strong firm, to 
which railroads and other corporations 
had entrusted their legal interests, and 
.\lr. l^ughlin had an exiellent chance to 
justify his choice of a jjrotession. He 
was equal to the opportimity. He was 
placed in charge of important ca.ses, and 
handled with conspicuous ability a large 
amount of the legal business devolving 
upon his firm. 

In the fall of 188.') William 1-. Wor- 
ihington was elected city attorney of 
Buffalo, and thus had occa.sion to ap])oint 
an a.ssi.stant. He did not know Mr. 
langhlin personally, but he heard so 
favorable reports of his ability and char- 
acter that he decided to offer him the 
position. At that time Mr. l.aughlin 
had been admitted to the bar only about 
three years, and this unsolicited appoint- 
ment wa.s a striking tribute to his ability 
in the law. He accepted the olTer, and 
began his new duties January 1, ISHi;. 
Soon after this Mr. NN'orthington's title 
was changed from that of city attorney 
to corporation counsel, and the former 
designation was given to Mr. I.aughlin. 
He retained the office until l.H!tl. ami 
discharged its duties most efficiently. In 
a single case — that of the F.llicott-street 
extension — the is.sue involvetl more than 
82(H),(MI(t, and Mr. I.aughlin won the 
decision for the city. His success was .so marked, 
indeed, that he became in 18!(() the logical candi- 
date of the Republican |)arty for the office ofcor- 
|)oration counsel. He ran more than "JOfld votes 



ahead of his i>arty, but on this occasion the entire 
Democratic ticket was succes.sful. 

lor the next few years Mr. I^ughlin practiced 
law on his own account, at first alone, but subse- 
• piently in as-sociation with Thomas I'enney. His 
success was as marked as it shouUl have been from 
his previous career, and he would undoubtedly have 
bei ome one of the leaden* of the Krie-county bar, had 
he not been destined for a higher brant h of jurisiini- 
dence. Selected again in 18)t.'{ by his jiarty as its 
nominee for the of1i( e of cor|)oration lounsel, he 
was elected over his former opponent by a sweeping 
majority of nearly 8(100. This victory presaged his 
success two years later as a candidate for the posi- 
tion of Su|)reme Court justice. He was nominated 
by ac( lamation for this high ofiice by a convention 
com|)o.sed mainly of attorneys representing a l>ar of 




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more than 1200 lawyers in the eight western coun- 
ties of the state. Kveryone acknowledged his fit- 
ness for the |iosition. and he was elected by a 
magnificent majority. 



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PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G Y— Frank C. 
Laugh/in 7i'as born at Neiostead, N. Y., July 20, 
18n9 ; was educated at the Lockport (^N. K ) Union 
School ; studied law, and was admitted to the bar 
in 1882 ; began practice in Buffalo in 1883 ; was 
assistant city attorney and city attorney of Buffalo, 
1886-91 ; was elected corporation counsel of Buf- 
falo in 1893, and justice of the Supreme Court 
in 1895; married Mrs. Martha Bartlett of New 
York city, formerly Martha Taylor of Buffalo, June 
2, 1896. 

IRowlanC* JBlcnncrbassett /lOabang, 

though still a young man, may be characterized 
as follows — student, teacher, litterateur, diplomat, 
and congressman. His life so far recalls to mind 
the biographies of the founders of the Republic, 
whose precocity enabled them to enter public life 
and fill high offices before other young men got 
fairly launched on their careers. 

Born in Buffalo in the last year of the Civil War, 
Mr. Mahany is a representative of the post-bellum 
generation, into whose hands the destinies of the 
Republic are soon to pa.ss. He received his early 
education in the public schools of his native city, 
graduating with highest honors from the high school 
in 1881. Dependent upon his own exertions, he 
spent the summer after his graduation working upon 
a farm in Chautauqua county. In the fall of the 
same year he became an instructor in Latin and 
(ireek in the Buffalo Classical School, and continued 
in that position for one year. In 1882 he entered 
Hobart College, where he studied two years, standing 
at the head of his class. Actuated by an ambition 
to secure the broadest education possible, he entered 
Harvard University in the fall of 1884. He won a 
prize the first year there. He became secretary and 
treasurer, and was three times vice president, of the 
Harvard Union, the chief debating society of the 
university. He was vice president and ])resident 
of St. Paul's Society, the Episcopalian organization 
of Harvard College. In the field of scholarship he 
attained equal distinction. He was one of the first 
eight scholars in his class, and in his junior year 
was cho.sen a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society, 
which is annually augmented by the election of 
students of the highest standing in all the leading 
colleges of the country. In the same year he was 
chosen first marshal of the society, and headed the 
procession of its members in one of their historic 
marches to Memorial Hall. For two successive 
years he was a Boylston-prize man, winning one of 
the prizes awarded to the best speakers in the junior 
and senior classes. His crowning honor came in 



1888, when he graduated from Harvard with the 
summa cum laude degree. 

On returning to his home in Buffalo Mr. Mahany 
became an editorial writer on the Buffalo Express. 
Newspaper work, however, was less congenial to him 
than study and literature, and he soon abandoned 
journalism to become an instructor in history and 
literature in the Buffalo High School. 

When James G. Blaine was running for the ])resi- 
dency in 1884 Mr. Mahany, then a student at 
Harvard College, wa.s one of his most ardent sup- 
porters in that hotbed of " mugwumpery. " The 
fact came to Mr. Blaine's attention, and afterward, 
when secretary of state, he offered Mr. Mahany 
the position of secretary of legation to Chile. This 
offer Mr. Mahany thought it wise to decline. In 
1892 Mr. Blaine induced President Harrison to 
nominate Mr. Mahany envoy extraordinary and 
minister plenipotentiary to the South .-\.merican 
republic of Ecuador. The nomination was unani- 
mously confirmed by the senate, and Mr. Mahany 
betook himself to Quito. Several ministers had 
died at that post of duty, and Mr. Mahany soon 
after his arrival there was attacked by the dread 
fever of the place. Obliged to return home to 
regain his health, he was nominated for congress on 
the Republican ticket. He was defeated on this 
occasion, but the normal Democratic majority was 
reduced over 1000 votes. 

Mr. Mahany returned to Ecuador in 1893, and 
concluded in nineteen days the Santos treaty, 
negotiations for which had been pending for nearly 
ten years. It was said at the time of Mr. Mahany's 
a[)pointment that he was the youngest diplomat in 
the world holding the responsible position of foreign 
minister, and the youngest man in the United States 
ever a]j])ointed to such an office. Mr. Mahany's 
ambition to enter ])ublic life in this country was 
gratified in the fall of 1894, when the Republican 
cyclone struck the country. He was elected in that 
year to the 54th congress over four com|)etitors. 
Speaker Reed fittingly recognized Mr. Mahany's 
ability by placing him upon several important com- 
mittees. The best and practically most effective 
work in congress is done in committee, and these 
assignments enabled the young congressman to exert 
his full share of influence in shaping legislation. 
His most important work for Buffalo consisted in 
having the project for the completion of the break- 
water placed under the "continuous contract" 
system. The finest harbor on the lakes will be a 
monument to Mr. Mahany's first six months in 
congress. Through his efforts, also, work was 
resumed on the new post office, and its speedy 



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construction assured. In the memorable election of 
Noveml)er, 1H96, he was returned to congress with 
a plurality of nearly 4000 votes. This result, in a 
district that has always been regarded as a strong- 
hold of Democracy, testifies most elo(|uently to Mr. 
Mahany's |)0|jularity. 

Though far from the prime of life, 
Mr. .Mahany has already attained honors 
sought in vain by many oUler men. 
With a start in life so splendid, an 
ex]x;rience .so wide and heli)ful, an in- 
tellectual e(iuipment so thorough, his 
star can hardly yet have reached its 
zenith. 

PERSOXA L CUR OXOL OGY — 
Rcni'laiiil BUniit-rhassett Mahany was born 
at Buffalo September 28, 1864. ■' «'"■*" 
eJiiiated in the public schools of Buffalo : 
stuMeJ in Ilobart College two years, anil 
graJuateJ from Harvani University in 
1888 : eniras^eti in Journalism and taught 
school, 1888-92 ; 7i>as appointed minister 
to Ecuador in 1802 ; 7i'as elected repre- 
sentative to the '>ith congress in 180J,, 
and to the ooth in 18f)6. 

IDamcl l^uiib /IDc/lDillau, m the 

various spheres of his professional, civic, 
and political life, may justly be said to 
merit and to enjoy in an exceptional 
degree the confidence and esteem of his 
fellow-men. He was born and reared in 
the valley of the (lenesee, New York. 
He is of Scotch origin, tracing his line- 
age from Alexander McMillan, whose 
monumental cro.ss, erectetl in l."!4M, still 
stands with its inscriptions at the famil) 
burial place in Kilmory, Scotland. His 
grandfather, John McMillan, was "John 
the I'pright," arbiter of the Hollanders of the Mo- 
hawk valley during the latter |>art of the eighteenth 
century. His father, Daniel McMillan of York, 
was revered and honored by all who knew him as a 
man of high integrity, kind and generous, of the 
utmost purity of character: it has been justly said of 
him, "His hand gave bread and his voice sjake 
peace to the needy and stricken-hearted." His 
mother, a daughter of Malcolm McXaughton, was 
a woman of |)rc-eminent Christian culture. Her 
father's family took much interest in public afTjiirs, 
three of her brothers having occupied seats in the 
Canadian |)arliament ; while a fourth, active in the 
organization of Wisconsin as a state, was a memlier 
of its legislative body. 



.Vlr. .McMillan attended the district and village 
school, and com|)leted his education at I<e Roy 
.\cademy and Cornell University. In !><()!( he went 
to Buffalo, and began the study of law with I.aning, 
Cleveland & Folsom, gaining admission to the l>ar 
in 1S71. He is now the heail of the firm of 




Koni.lMi Itl.li.W/Ch'll \SSI/ I MIHIW 

McMillan, Cluck. I'ooley & Dejicw, and local 
counsel for the Vanderbilt railway comjanies cen- 
tering in HulTalo. 

In 1885 Mr. McMillan was elected by the Repub- 
lican |>arty to rejiresent the Buffalo district in the 
state senate. His career in that body was most 
.satisfactory to his constituents, and was so thoroughly 
endorsed by his |xirty and friends that he was 
renominatetl in the fall of 1XX7. This nomination 
he declined. While in the senate he was chairman 
of the (ommittee on canals, and a memlK;r of the 
committees on judiciary, cities, claims, and Indian 
affairs. 

In addition to the extensive legislation relating to 
his own district. Senator McMillan found much time 



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to devote to general legislation. As chairman of 
the canal committee, he prepared and carried through 
the legislature, against strong opposition, the bill 
providing for the lengthening of the locks on the 
Erie canal, by which the cost of transportation 
between the (Ireat Lakes and tide water was reduced 





DAMEl. men McMJfJ.A.y 

upwards of forty per cent. He prepared the follow- 
ing bills, and secured their enactment : one provid- 
ing for a imiform policy of fire insurance, to be used 
by all companies doing business in the state ; another 
providing for a commission to report upon the most 
humane method of carrying into effect the death 
])cnalty in capital ca.ses — the bill resulting in the 
application of electricity in such ca.ses in New York 
state ; another authorizing the utilization of the 
power of Niagara Falls ; another reforming prison 
labor and discipline ; and another regulating the 
employment of women in manufacturing establish- 
ments. 

Even before his election to the senate Mr. Mc- 
Millan was active in behalf of many reforms relating 



to the affairs of Buffalo. It was through his efforts 
that the Municii)al Court was established ; he was 
also chairman of the committee that formulated the 
plan embodied in the revised charter of 1892, which 
provided for a board of aldermen and a board 
of councilmen, one originating all legislation, and 
the other having an absolute power of 
veto. 
•; In 1893 Mr. McMillan was elected by 

the people of the state one of the fifteen 
delegates at large to the convention to 
revise and amend the constitution. In 
this body he took an active and leading 
position. He was chairman of the com- 
mittee on the governor and other state 
officers, a member of the committees on 
judiciary and on rules, and aLso one of 
the special committee to prepare an ad- 
dress to the people of the state setting 
forth the work accomplished by the con- 
vention. 

Mr. McMillan's success has been 
largely due to a high sen.se of personal 
and ])rofessional honor, and to untiring 
industry, coupled with a sagacity that 
enables him to direct and utilize other 
men. As a lawyer he takes high rank, 
a.s his frequent appearance in the highest 
courts of the state and nation fully at- 
tests. No member of the legal profes- 
sion possesses the confidence and esteem 
of the bench and bar in a greater de- 
gree. He has a kind and considerate 
nature, but it does not blind him to his 
duty, nor swerve him from it. As a poli- 
tician he has had few equals, for he has 
demonstrated that a man may enter poli- 
tics, and discharge the duties of political 
life, with untarnished honor. .As a 
scholar he has fine literary discrimination, and the 
cultured tendencies of his mind are mirrored in 
a choice and well-selected library at his home. 
For some years past he has de\otetl much of his 
leisure to the study of Scottish history and litera- 
ture, and his collection of works relating to this 
subject takes high rank among similar collections in 
America. 

Mr. McMillan has been president of the Buffalo 
Library, and was one of the managers of that asso- 
ciation during the erection of the library building 
and the Hotel Irocjuois. He is a manager of the 
Buffalo State Hospital, a trustee of the State Normal 
School, a member of the Buffalo Historical Society, 
and of the Societv of Natural Sciences. 



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In 1S««, 1SH2, and again in l><!t(i, he was chosen 
at the Rei)iiblican state lonvention one of the alter- 
nate (lelegates at larj;e to represent the state in the 
Re|>ul)lican national convention. He has been a 
nienil>er of the Re|)iil)lican state committee : belonj^s 
to the American anil the state bar associations : and 
for twelve years was one of the examiners of appli- 
cants for admission to the bar. He is a member of 
the I'resbyterian church, the Htiffalo and Liberal 
clubs, the (hi I'si fraternity, the Consistory, and 
the Temple. He has two sons, .Morton and Ross. 

PERSOXAL CHK ONOL O G ) — Danief ///<i,V/ 
McMillan 7i;is born at York, N. Y. ; loas edtntili-d 
at L( Ro\ Acailfmx an J Cornell University : studied 
law in Buffalo, and was admitted to the har in 1S7 1 : 
7c<as state senator, ISStlSl ; was chosen alternate 
delegate at large to the Republican national conven- 
tions of ISSS, lSf)J, and ISW. and dele- 
gate at large to the stale constitutional con- 
vention of ISfH : has practiced laic in 
Buffalo since 1S7 1 : married Delphi,/ 
Jackson of Sandusky, N. Y. 

"BUUliam %. /IDarcvj, one of the 

most successful of the younger lawyers at 
the Krie-county lar, was born in Madi- 
,son county, New \'ork, in IH.lX. lie 
was taken to l.ock|)ort during infanty, 
and lived there until he was twelve years 
old. Moving to Buffalo in 1K70, he 
completed his education in the publii 
schools of that city, graduating from the 
high .school in 1K7(). He had decided 
to follow the legal profession, and with 
that end in view he entered an office 
soon after his graduation from the high 
school, and read law for three years. In 
lS7!t he was admitted to the bar. 

Mr. Marcy was only twenty-one years 
old at this time, but he determined to 
make an early start on his professional 
I areer, and opened an office at once in 
Kuffalo for the general practice of law. 
He had no a.s.sociate for the first four 
years, but by IXS."? his business had as- 
simied such proportions that he thought 
it desirable to form a partnership. He 
did so, accordingly, with Joseph V. Sea- 
ver, and the firm of Seaver iV Marcy 
carried on a successful practice imtil 
IH.si;. Mr. Marcy then as.sociated himself with 
Manly (.'. (Ireen. The jKirtnership of (Ireen & 
Many continued until the senior [wrtner was elected 
to the Supreme Court in the fall of IHi'l. when Mr. 



Marcy formed a lartnership with I'imorx I'. Close. 
The firm of .Marcy iV Close has existed ever since, 
and has built up, from the substantial foundation 
afforded by the original clientage of the associating 
members, an imposing column of loujt litigation 
and general office practice. Mr. Marcy was a|)- 
pointed assistant district attorney of Krie county by 
Ccorge T. (,)uinl)y, serving two terms or six years 
altogether, from 1SH7 to l><il.'i. In that responsible 
position he confirmed his previous reputation as an 
able and trustworthy guardian of legal rights. 

It is evident from all this that Mr. Marcy is a 
highly siu cessfiil attorney : but he is a good deal 
more than that. From the beginning of his active 
• areer he has interesteil himself in various matters 
connected with the civic welfare, and has been a 
power for good in the endless stmggle with the foes 




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of honc>st government. Helieving that the end> 
.sought by all good citizens may be most effectively 
secured through |>arty co-operation, and convinced 
that the Republican |>arty is altogether the best 



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organization for the purpose, Mr. Marcy has been 
one of the leading advisers among the younger men 
who shape the policy of the Republican party. He 
is a member of the Buffalo Republican League, and 
has been vice president of the same. The cause of 
civil-service reform appealed to him powerfully, and 
he was appointed by Mayor Becker one of the civil- 
service commissioners. 

Aside from his profession and from political and 
public affairs, Mr. Marcy has concerned himself with 
various forms of social life. He is a Mason, attend- 
ing Ancient Landmark Lodge, No. 441 ; and an 
Odd Fellow, attending Niagara Lodge, No. 25. He 
is a member of the Buffalo, Liberal, and Thursday 
clubs, and of the Idlewood .\ssociation. He be- 
longs, also, to the Buffalo Historical Society, and to 
the Sons of the American Revolution. He has been 
a tnistee of the Buffalo Library, and is now a trustee 
of the Buffalo School of Pedagogy. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G Y— William Lake 
Many 7C'as born at Peterboro, N. Y., August 26, 
1S5S ; was educated in the public schools of Lockport 
and Buffalo, graduating from the Buffalo High School 
in 1S7G ; was admitted to the bar in 1879 ; was as- 
sistant district attorney of Erie county, 1887-93: 
married Carrie Childs of Medina, N. Y. , October 7, 
1885 ; has practiced laui in Buffalo since 1879. 



CbarleS S>. /IDarSball, the son of a distin- 
guished lawyer, ha.s inherited his father's legal 
talents, and has perpetuated the family fame in the 
annals of the Buffalo bar. His ancestors were 
French -Italian on one side and English on the 
other. Mr. .Marshall's father, Orsamus H. Marshall, 
was not only a lawyer of ability, but also an histor 
ical scholar of renown. How important his work in 
American history was may be seen in the circum- 
stance that Francis I'arkman, in the later editions of 
his historical writings, changed numerous passages 
in conseiiuence of Mr. Marshall's researches. It is 
hardly too much to say that Orsamus Marshall, in 
certain departments of American history, was the 
foremost scholar of his day. 

With such a family prestige to maintain, Charles 
Marshall needed the best of educations. This he 
obtained. Thorough training in both public and 
private schools, added to the general culture uncon- 
sciously absorbed in the atmosphere of a cultivated 
home, enabled him to make the mo.st of his special 
professional preparation. The public schools of 
Buffalo, Springside Academy, near Auburn, N. Y., 
and the famous Hopkin.s Grammar School at 
New Haven, Conn., amply t|ualified him to take 
up the study of law without the interposition of a 



college course. He went through the Albany Law 
School, accordingly, in the years that many young 
men now spend in college, and was admitted to the 
bar in 1864. 

At that time Orsamus H. Marshall was carrying 
on an extensive practice at the Erie-county bar, 
and he was glad of an opportunity to receive able 
assistance by taking his son into partnership. The 
firm of O. H. & C. D. Marshall served many clients 
acceptably for about three years, or until the senior 
partner was appointed clerk of the United States 
District Court. After carrying on alone for a year 
both his own and his father's practice Mr. Marshall 
wisely sought assistance, and began his long associa- 
tion with Spencer Clinton by forming with him, in 
1868, the firm of Marshall & Clinton. This was 
the style until 187o, when Robert P. Wilson was 
admitted to the firm, and the name became Mar- 
shall, Clinton & Wilson. This association was dis- 
solved in 1892, and for a short time thereafter 
Messrs. Marshall and Clinton practiced together as 
before. In 18i)o they admitted to the firm Adolph 
Rebadow, who had studied law with them some 
years earlier ; and the present familiar style of Mar- 
shall, Clinton & Rebadow was thus acquired. The 
three attorneys so associated admirably complement 
each other, and constitute together one of the 
strongest firms in western New ^'ork. Mr. Mar- 
shall concerns himself more or less actively with all 
the business of his firm, but he has paid special 
attention for many years to the law of real pro]jerty, 
and to the management of trust estates. He has 
been the attorney of the Buffalo Savings Bank since 
1878, as his father was for twenty-eight years before 
that date. 

Mr. Marshall is one of the best-known clubmen 
in Buffalo, resorting habitually to the Buffalo Club 
(of which he has been a director), the Saturn Club, 
and others. He has a summer residence on Beaver 
island in the Niagara river, and his friends deem 
"Beaver Lodge" more attractive than any club. 
This property Mr. Marshall acquired on the disso- 
lution of the Beaver Island Club, of which he was 
director and treasurer when Grover Cleveland was 
president. Mr. Marshall was one of the founders 
of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, and ha.s 
been an officer in the organization from the first. 
He was a director of the Buffalo Library for several 
years, and in 1887 was elected a member of the 
real-estate committee. He did not favor, however, 
the use of the property of the association for hotel 
]«irposes, and resigned from the board in 1888. He 
is at present a director of the Buffalo Fine .Arts 
Academy, the Buffalo Society of .Artists, the Buffalo 



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City Cemetery, and the Third National Bank. He 
has also served as trustee, tre;»siirer, and vice presi- 
dent of the Thomas Asyhini for or|)han Indian 
children on the Cattaraugus reservation. 

Mr. Marshall has l)een for many years one of the 
trustees of the First l^resbyterian Church of Huflalo, 
and was prominently identified with the 
movement that resulted in the removal 
of the church from its former location, 
where the Krie County Savings 15ank 
now stands, to its ])resent site on the 
Circle. This step was liitterly opjiosed 
by some of the members of the society, 
and entailed a long legal contest, which 
Mr. Marshall's law firm, acting in behalf 
of the trustees, conilucted to a successful 
is.sue. 

Mr. Marshall takes great interest in 
early American history, and has one of 
the richest |>rivate libraries in this sub- 
ject anywhere to be founil. His father 
established the library years ago, and 
collected from a multitude of sources 
early anti rare pieces of Americana. 
Since his father's death Mr. Marshall has 
continued the search for choice editions, 
and has enriched the library in various 
respects. 

PERSOXA L L IIR ONOL OGY — 
Charles DeAiii^elis Marshall was Iwrn 
at Buffalo Xcnrmher IJf, ISJ^l : was edii-' 
cated at public ami pri-t'ale schools : gradu- 
ated from the Albany Law School, and 
was admitted to the bar in IS04 : ha.^ 
practiced law in Buffalo since 180^. 



reading. Literature has always been one of his 
delights, and he is well ac<|uaintetl with the standard 
works ol Knglish and .Vmerican authors. 

.\t the age of fifteen, in 18.55, Mr. Matte-son left 
the country for the attra< tions of city life. Ituflfalo 
was growing rajiidly at that time, almost doubling 




price H. /IDattCSOU has lived in 
Buffalo over forty years, has practiced 
law there thirty-five years, and has made 
himself well and favorably known throughout west- 
ern New York. He was born in Darien, Cene.see 
county, in 1X40, and spent his boyhood in that 
town. He obtained his early education in one of 
the little red .schoolhouses that dot the country 
landscape, and attended for two years Darien Acad- 
emy, an institution that was never very robust, and 
that pined away and died long ago. His scho- 
lastic training was not carried fiirther, and was thus 
inadeijuate to the needs of a proft*ssional man. 
Fortunately Mr. Matteson has a studious dis|)Osition 
and love of learning for its own sake, so that the 
scanty stock of knowledge originally accpiiretl in 
the schools of his youth has been augmented 
throughout his life by systematic and persistent 



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its i>opulation in the decade before the Civil War ; 
and foretokens of its later pros|)erity were alreadv at 
hand. Deciding that a young man who should 
stuily law and grow up with the city might re.xson- 
ably expect to see his professional practice exjiand 
with the |)opulation, Mr. Matteson entered the office 
of Houghton vV Clark, Iturtalo, and read law dili- 
gently for several years. His preinratory studies 
had been insufficient, as wc have seen, and he was 
unable to avail himself of a law school ; but he 
|)as.scd the l«r examinations in due scxson, and be- 
gan to pnictiie in Huftalo in IMlil. 

.Mr. Matteson was then twenty-one years of age, 
and thus obuiined an early start on his |>rofessional 
career. In lH(i'i-(!4 he was .n.s.sociated with Judge 



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(ieorge W. Houghton, with whom he had studied law, 
under the firm name of Houghton & Matteson ; i)ut 
otherwise he has practiced alone. The j^rocess of 
building up a legal clientage is not easy, but Mr. 
Matteson surmounted one obstacle after another un- 
til his position at the bar was well a.ssured. So 




PRICE .1. AtATTHSUX 

prominent, indeed, had he become by the year 1877 
that he was mentioned as a suitable candidate for 
the jiosition of city attorney : and he was elected to 
the office for a term of two years, 1878-79. 

Mr. Matteson has found relaxation from profes- 
sional cares in various fraternal societies. He be- 
longs to the Order of United Friends and to the 
Ancient Order of L'nited Workmen. He is also a 
member of Queen City Lodge, No. 858, F. & A. M., 
and of Keystone Chapter, No. 162, R. A. M. He 
has attended for many years the Delaware Avenue 
Methodist Kpiscojjal Church in Buffalo. His social 
life is divided between Buffalo, where most of his 
practice is carried on and where he usually lives in 
winter, and Darien, his native town in denesee 



county. He is fond of country life, esjjecially as it 
is found in Darien ; and he takes delight in spend- 
ing the summer months amid the scenes of his boy- 
hood. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOLOGY — Price A . 
Matteson icas lioni at Darien, A'. Y., January 12, 
IS.'fO : 7C'as educated in district schools 
and Darien Academy : mo'i'ed to Buffalo 
in ISi)'') : studied /azc>, and was admitted 
to the bar in 1801 : married Frances E. 
Brown of Buffalo Max 20, ISlio : was a 
member of the Erie-county board of su- 
pen<isors in ISG^, and city attorney of 
Buffalo, 1878-7!) : has practiced law in 
Buffalo since 18(!1. 

(IbarleS (5. pankOW, a commis- 
sioner of public works, and otherwise 
prominent in the political and commer- 
cial life of Buffalo, was born near Feld- 
berg, in the grand duchy of Mecklen- 
burg-Strelitz, Oermany, in 1851. When 
he was thirteen years of age he came to 
this country, whither two brothers had 
preceded him. Forced to look for em- 
ployment at once, he became an appren- 
tice in the bakery and confectionery 
business, and for a long time followed 
this calling under various employers. 
His work prevented school attendance 
during the day, but he did what he 
could to remedy this privation by at- 
tending an evening school. By the year 
1880, when he was twenty-nine years 
old, Mr. Pankow felt that he had worked 
for other people long enough, and that 
it was time to make a beginning for him- 
self if he was ever to get ahead in the 
world. He set up a grocery and saloon, 
accordingly, in the part of Buffalo where he was 
well known, and soon had his business on a secure 
footing. In 1885 he moved his store to its present 
location at the corner of William and Pratt streets, 
where he carries on a large and growing business. 

The grocery, however, is only one of several 
enterprises engaging Mr. Pankow's time. He has 
been connected with the Harmonia Mutual Fire 
Insurance Co. since its organization in 1877, and 
has been president of the company continuously 
since January, 1886. In 1882 he ac(|uired an 
interest in the Clinton Co-operative Brewing Co., 
and has been president of the concern since Janu- 
ary, 1883, with the excejition of the year 1885. 
Since 1888 he has been ])resident of the Western 



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Bottling Co., Limited, which inaniifactiires all kinds 
of "soft" and carbonated drinks. Since May, 
IKKO, he has been president of the Brewers' A.s.so- 
ciation of BufTaio. He is one of the trustees of the 
I'nited States Brewers' .\s.sociation, having l)een 
elected to the board at Philadelphia, in IH!)."), for 
a term of three years. 

.A man |X).sses.sed of such business ability as the 
foregoing record necessarily as<ribes to .Mr. I'ankow, 
< annot long keep out of politics ; espc< ially if such 
ability be united to ujirightness of character and 
genial personal ipialities. .Ml these conditions 
coexist in Mr. Pankow, and his political success is 
only what might have been e\|>ecte<l. He first 
came |)rominentlv into |)ublii notice in the fall of 
1X8;!, when he was elected alderman from the old 
.")th ward for the term of 1K«4-X."). .\fter that he 
held no offit ial ))osiiion tor a number 
of years, though he lontinued to be an 
active force in the counsels of Republi- 
can leaders in his |)art of the city. In 
the fall of 1X!I4 he received the nom- 
ination for the im|)ortant jwsition of 
commissioner of publit works, and was 
elected for a term of three years begin- 
ning January 1, IHilo. 

.Mr. I'ankow is highly sociable in his | 
nature and habits, and l)elongs to various 
organizations designed to .satisfy this 
healthy instinct of mankind. Among 
these may be mentioned the Ma.soni< 
order, the lndc|)endent Order of Odd 
Fellows, and the .\ncient Order of 
United Workmen. He is a member of 
the Evangelical Lutheran St. John'-. 
Church. 

PERSOXAL CHRONOLOGY — 
Charles George Pankow 7i'as born near 
Eeliiberg, Germany, January 2T , IS') 1 : 
learned the baker's and eon/ectioner' s 
trade, and loorked at the same, IS/j'SSO : 
married Mary Graf of Tonaicanda, X. ) '. , 
June SO, 1870 ; has conducted a grocery 
business in Buffalo since ISSO ; zoas al- 
derman from the 5th ward, Buffalo. 
ISHlL-fi') : was elected commissioner of 



public works, Buffalo, in ^" 
for the term 18nr,-0~, . 



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for six )ears insi)ector of rifle prac tice in the 74ih 
regiment. 

Dr. Smith is an ( )hio man by birth, but went to 
Buffalo when a Iwjy, and has since resided in the 
(Jueen City. He attended the |)ublic schools, 
including the high school, and afterwards entered 
the medical de|>artment of the Cniversity of BufTaio. 
He pursued the regular three-year course, and |jas.sed 
his examinations ; but was not permitted to take his 
degree, as he had not then attained the age of 
twenty-one. The degree of .M. I). wa.s duly con- 
ferred upon him the year following. Dr. Smith's 
remarkable maturity of mind, and natural talent 
for the .sc ience of medicine, are shown by the earh 
age at which he graduated, and es|iec iall\ by his 
high rank on commencement day. He took the 
first Stoddard prize for the best exainination in 




CHARLES C. /'.«\A(MI 



%<.<. t>. Smitb is well known in 

BufTaio in both professional and .social c in les. As materia medica, and shared the Fillmore prize for 

a medical practitioner and scientist he has won the best thesis. 

deserved rejjute, while in military circles he hxs Wisely concluding that at his .ige he coidd 

attained fame as an expert marksman, having been afford to spend a few more years in perfec ting his 



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professional knowledge, Dr. Smith went to New 
York, and matriculated at the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons, the medical de])artment of ("olunihia 
University. Having graduated thence in 1X81, he 
returned to Buffalo to begin his professional work. 
He has ever since followed his callint; in that city. 




I. HE H. SMITH 

Dr. Smith has confined his i)ractice to special 
lines, chiefly of a surgical nature. Early in his pro- 
fessional career he was a])pointed surgeon in Dr. 
Pierce's Palace Hotel. This magnificent hostelry 
was destroyed by fire in 1881, and in its place was 
erected the Invalids' Hotel, with which Dr. Smith 
ha.s been connected from the first. He has also 
been for seven years vice jjresident of the World's 
Dispensary Medical Association, an auxiliary of the 
hospital. His opportunities there for varied practice 
have been numerous and valuable. 

Dr. Smith belongs to the eclectic school of medi- 
cine, adopting what is best from all schools. He is 
president of the board of medical examiners repre- 
senting the Eclectic Medical Society of the State 



of New York. He has written much on .subjects 
connected with his profession. He is a prominent 
member of various scientific clubs, having been 
president of the Buffalo Microscopical Club one 
year, and of the state Eclectic medical society two 
years. He has been first vice president of the Buf- 
falo Society of Natural Sciences for the 
past two years, and devotes all his leisure 
hours to this institution. 

Dr. Smith is an enthusiastic rifleman, 
and was a member of the 74th regi- 
ment's rifle team that won the trophy of 
the state for four successive years. His 
relations with the military entitle him to 
the rank of captain. He is a member of 
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, of the Buf- 
falo Club, and of .'\ncient Landmark 
Lodge, F. & A. M. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL OGY— 
Lee Herbert Smith was born at Con- 
iieaiit, O., August 10, 1856 ; iiioTed to 
Buffalo in 1868 ; graduated from the 
medical department of the University of 
Buffalo in 1811 , and from the College of 
L^hysicians and Surgeons, N'eiu York city, 
in 1881 ; married Corrie Emma Lacy of 
Buffalo October 5, 1880; has been vice 
president of the World' s Dispensary Med- 
ical Association since 1889. 



%0\m StrOOtman, "ho has been 

identilieil with the ?.hoe industry of Buf- 
falo as a manufacturer for over lucnly 
years, was born in the Queen City of 
the Lakes. His people are old Buffalo- 
nians, his grandfather having cultivated 
a farm in a part of the city that is 
now covered with business blocks. Mr. 
Strootman himself was born, and lived 
for over forty years, in the same house that shel- 
tered his mother from her childhood. 

.'\fter attending Public School No. 7, and later a 
private school, Mr. Strootman at the age of fourteen 
closed his books to learn his father's business. The 
latter was for many years a manufacturer of custom 
shoes, and had in his service some of the best shoe- 
makers of the old world. In such a school Mr. 
Strootman could not fail to learn the business ])er- 
fectly in every detail ; and the seven years that he 
spent in his father's employment gave him the finest 
])0ssible training for his career as a manufacturer. 
In addition to this long experience he spent about 
eighteen months with John Dorschel & Co. of Buf- 
falo, taking charge of their pattern and shoe-cutting 



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cie[)artmcnt. Soon after attaining his majority he- 
began l)tisines.s for himself, having saved an amount 
of capital that most iieojile would deem wholly in- 
adequate. He knew the business so thoroughly, 
however, and exercised so much care and judgment 
in his ventures, that success attended his eflbrts from 
the first. Me enlarged his oi)erations gradually, as 
his trade relations extended and his capital increa.sed, 
until to-day his goods are in demand not only in 
western .New York, hut in the South, the West, and 
the Northwest a.s far as the I'ai ific coa.st. His four- 
teen experienced shoe salesmen reside at convenient 
[Kjints in various states, and visit each important 
town and city at frequent intervals. For this pur- 
|K)se sani])les of new styles and shapes are made up 
twice a year, and disjilayed liy the salesmen six 
months ahead of the season. Mr. Strootman usuallv 
sells his s|)ecialties to but one store in a 
town. He manufactures shoes for ladies, 
misses, anil children exclusively. The 
official records of the factory inspectors 
show that Mr. Strootman employs more 
peo|)le than any other individual manu- 
facturer in Huffalo. His interest and 
amusement from boyhood has been 
.shoemaking and .shoe machinery, and 
his factory contains an unusually com- 
plete equipment of the finest moclern 
appliances used in progressive shoemak- 
ing. 

In recent years the subject of gold and 
silver mining has engaged Mr. Stroot- 
man's attention to a considerable extent. 
He ha.s been much more successful in 
the shoe business than the average manu- 
facturer ; but the conditions of trade in 
that industry have become more and 
more keenly competitive, imlil the mar- 
gin of profit has sunk to a point not far 
removed from zero. Mr. Strootman has 
filled his factory with expensive labor- 
saving devices and costly machinery of 
various kinds ; but com|)etitors have done 
the same, and the net result has been 
that cu.stomers have bought their shoes 
at lower and lower |>rices, while the 
manufacturers have reajied little or no 
benefit from the decreased cost of ])ro- 
duction. In the case of gold and silver 
mining the conditions are so far different 
that imjjroved ])rocesses of extracting ores, more 
productive refining methods, and various eionomies 
in getting the metal from the mine to the smelter, 
are all dire<lly effective in swelling the |)rohts of 



the business. Having convinced himself of the 
soundness of this view, Mr. Strootman next sought 
an opportunity to apply his reasoning practically. 
.\ little research among the mining pro|)erties of 
Colorado discovereil such op|)ortunities, and he is 
now largely interested in some of the most pro- 
ductive mines of the fentcnnial State. He is a 
director of the UufTalo iV Colorado Development 
Co., and is president of the (lolconda Consolidated 
.Mining, Milling vV lunnel Co. The former cor- 
|)oration has its general offices in Denver, its prop- 
erty lying in Fremont county, Colorado. the Col 
conda comjany operates mines and mills in Clear 
Creek county in the same state. 

Mr. Strootman has been much al)sorbed in his 
business, and has taken little [art in outside matters. 
He belongs to various clubs in Buffalo and the east- 




JOI/\ STKOOT.UAX 

ern citicN, but rarely visits them. He is a director 
of the Cnion Hank, HulTalo. 

/'EfiSOX.U. Cll RONOl.OCY —John Slroot- 
niiiii 7t'iis horn at liiiffiilo A/>ri/ »', IS.'i I ; was ritucatr,! 



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in public and prii'ate schools : learned the shoemaker's 
business, and worked for his father in the same, 1865- 
72 ; has been a director of the Union Bank, Buffalo, 
since 1892 ; has carried on a shoe manufactory in 
Buffalo since 187S. 




I)/-: w irr <;. n ilcox 

Be lUitt (3. IClilCOl", who has made himself 
widely known in Ohio and in western New York as 
a physician and surgeon, was born less than forty 
years ago in Akron, Ohio. He attended the ])ublic 
schools of that city, graduating from the high school 
in June, 187(i. In the following September he en- 
tered Buchtel College, where he pursued elective 
courses for two years. 'I'he Cleveland Homeo- 
pathic Hospital College was his ne.xt educational 
resource, and in 1880 he received the degree of 
Doctor of Medicine from that institution. He be- 
gan ])ractice in the .same year at .Akron, in partner- 
shi]) with Dr. William Murdoch. 

From the beginning of his medical studies Dr. 
Wilcox had looked forward to the career of a 
surgeon rather than that of a general physician ; an<l 



in order to equip himself still more thoroughly for 
such work, he gave up for a while his practice in 
Akron, and cro.ssed the water to study under the best 
surgeons abroad. He spent the year 1882 in the 
hosj)itals of London and Paris, thereby acquiring an 
invaluable experience in the theory and 
practice of surgery. Dr. Wilcox is one 
of the few Americans who have received 
appointments in European hospitals : 
for si.x months in 1882 he held the posi- 
tion of resident hou.se surgeon in the 
London Temperance Hospital. 

Having returned to this country early 
in 188.'5, Dr. Wilcox resumed the jjrac- 
tice of medicine at .\kron, and continued 
to follow his protession there for the 
next five years. In LS88-89 he asso- 
ciated himself with Dr. Josej^h T. Cook 
of Buffalo, taking up his residence in 
that city February 1, 1888. There was 
then no member of the homeopathic 
.school in Buffalo who was giving special 
and exclusive attention to surgery, and 
several prominent phvsicians of the city 
reipiested Dr. Wilcox to supply the de- 
ficiency. He did so, as stated, and ob- 
tained a large i)ractice almost at once. 
By May, 1890, his surgical patients were 
so numerous that he found it convenient 
to establish for their use the Wilcox 
Private Hospital. This institution served 
his purpose so well that Dr. Wilcox, at 
the retiuest of many fellow-practitioners 
in Buffalo and Krie county, enlarged the 
ho.spital, and made it general instead of 
private. In 1894 the name was changed 
to the Lexington Heights Hospital. The 
staff of the institution includes twenty or 
more of the best-known physicians of Buffalo and 
western New York, and the enterjirise must be 
regarded from every jjoint of \iew as highly suc- 
cessful. 

Dr. Wilcox was one of the original staff members 
of the Erie County Hospital, and he is still an at- 
tending surgeon in the institution. He is likewise 
one of the staff of the Buffalo Homeo|jathic Hospital. 
He has membershi]) in the New York State Homeo- 
pathic Medical Society, in the American Institute of 
Homeopathy, and in the Buffalo Society of Natural 
Sciences; and he has been president of the Homeo- 
pathic Medical Society of Western New York. He 
has frequently written on prot'essional subjects in 
various medical journals. In 1891 he delivered be- 
tbre the Society of Natural Sciences a lecture on 



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" Heredity of Crime," which was published in the 
Huflalo Express. 

PERSOXAL CHROXOLOGY—De Uitl 
Gilbert Wilcox was born at Akron, O., January /.<, 
ISoS ; was eiiucateil in the Akron public schools ami 
Buciitel ( O. ) College ; i^raduateJ from the ClcrelanJ 
Homeopathic Hospital MeJical College in ISSO : 
marrieil Jennie Irene Green of Alfretl Centre, X. ) '. , 
September ;'), IUSS ; practiceJ medicine in Akron, 
1S80-SS, 7(>ith the exception of a year spent in surgical 
study abroad ; has practiced in Buffalo since ISSS, 
de^coting himself especially to surgical and hospital 
li'ork. 

James a. Campbell, one of the most popu- 
lar insiiraiu c men ol liullulo, is a native of Canada, 
having been born in Niagara Falls, Ont., forty 
odd years ago. His [wrents moved to 
Buffalo, however, when James was seven 
years old, and the boy's education was 
received at Hublic School No. 1 in that 
city, and at liryant & Stratton's Business 
College. 

Mr. Campbell made an early begin 
ning in the business of his life thus far, 
entering at the age of si.xteen the office 
of the old Buflalo City Insurance Co., 
of which William (J. I'argo. then mayor 
of the city, was president. Mr. Camp- 
bell found the business congenial from 
the first, and devoted him.self assiduously 
to his iluties. He received rapid promo- 
tions, and had attained a position of 
considerable imjiortance when the great 
Chicago fire of 1H71 Ibrcetl his com|any 
into bankrujitcy, together with many 
others throughout the country. So able 
an assi.stant as Mr. Campbell had proved 
himself had no difficulty in finding a 
new opening, and he .soon entered the 
general insurance office of W'orthington 
i^: Sill as policy clerk. The following 
year he was promoted to take charge of 
the fire business of the firm, holding that 
position for several years. Having made 
himself thoroughly familiar with the 
working details of the establishment, 
Mr. Campbell determined to start in 
business for him.self .Xc* ordingly, in 
October, 1H7(), he obtained the local 
agency for several jjrominent com|)anies, and opened 
an office in Buffalo. For seventeen years he carried 
on alone a prosi^rous business. Writing all kinds of 
insurance — life, fire, accident, ])late-glass, and steam- 



boiler — he has established a reputation for courte- 
ous and business-like dealing, and prompt and satis- 
factory adjustment of losses, that easily accounts for 
his success. By October, lH!t.'}, his business had 
grown to su( h |)roportions that it became desirable 
to obtain the helj) of an a.sso( iate, and he consoli- 
dated his agency with that of John S. Kellner. At 
the siime time they movetl their offices to prominent 
and sjacioiis ([uarters on Niagara street, where the 
firm of Campbell \- Kellner hxs continued to the 
present time, doing a large and steadily increasing 
businc"ss. 

When the Buffalo .\s.sociation of F'ire Under- 
writers was organized in August, 1H79, Mr. Cam])- 
bell was one of the incor|)orators of the institu- 
tion, and he has always taken an active |«rt in its 
work. He was president of the association in IUHK. 




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Aside from his lifelong connection with the busi- 
ness of insurance, Mr. Campbell is known through- 
out the state for his interest in co-operative savings 
and loan a.ssociations. .Vs earlv as ISTI. when such 



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societies were a good deal of a novelty, he heli)ed 
to organize the Prospect Hill Savings and Loan 
Association, and was made its president. This com- 
pany was conducted on the old "limited" plan, 
and in 1877 the stock matured, and the comjjany 
liquidated its obligations and |)a.ssed out of exist- 
ence. In January, 1884, the Krie Savings and 
Loan Association was organized in Buffalo, and Mr. 
Campbell was made one of the directors. This 
l)Osition he soon resigned to accept the office of 
president of the lrish-.\merican Savings and Loan 
Association, organized in the following .\pril. He 
remained at the head of the management of this 
in.stitution for a number of years, finally resigning 
in January, 1894. During this time he was active 
in promoting a union of similar associations through- 
out the state, and when the Xew York State League 
of Co-Operative Savings and Building-Loan Associa- 
tions was organized at Rochester in June, 1888, Mr. 
Campbell was chosen second vice president. The 
following year he was unanimously elected president 
of the state association, and ably discharged the 
duties of the office. 

Twelve years' service in the .\ational (hiard must 
also be recorded in any account of Mr. Campbell's 
life that aims at completeness. He enlisted as a 
l)rivate in company B, 74th regiment, in May, 1868, 
received promotions in due course, and on the 
organization of company E was made first lieutenant 
of that company. In September, 187(j, he became 
commander of the company, and retained this 
position until his resignation from the (niard in 
.May, 1880. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G Y— James Arthur 
Campbell 7uas Iwrn al Niai^ara Falls, Out., July 2Jf, 
1853; was educated in Buffalo puhiie schools and 
Bryant &= Stratton' s Business College; 7i'as a clerk 
in insurance offices, IHOS-Ki ; married Emeline A. 
Short of Buffalo September 17, 1888; was president 
of the Irish-American Saj'ings and Loan Association, 
1884— 9Jf ; has conducted a general insurance agency in 
Buffalo since 1870'. 

OlbOSCS 1X\. S)ahe has been identified, ever 
since he went to Buffalo fourteen years ago, with 
the bakery business. His earlier career as a hard- 
ware merchant in a country town seems quite dis- 
tinct from this, but the experience thus acijuired 
doubtless made possible the success that has attended 
the later undertaking. 

.Mr. Dake was born in Livingston count\, .\e« 
York, fifty-six years ago. His father was a farmer 
in the beautifid (ienesee valley ; and the boy's edu- 
cation consisted of a little book learning, obtained 



at the district school of his native town of Portage, 
and a large amount of practical experience gained 
on the farm. Not altogether content with the 
results of this curriculum, he spent a short time at 
Nunda .\cademy in his twentieth year; but an ex- 
tended course there seemed imjiracticable, and he 
soon returned home, and devoted himself for several 
years to farming. 

In December, 18(J4, he began mercantile life as a 
clerk in a hardware store in .Mbion, X. Y., remain- 
ing there somewhat more than three years, and 
learning the business thoroughly in all its details. 
Commercial life was more attractive to him than 
farming had been, and he determined to engage in 
business on his own account. He returned to Nunda, 
therefore, and established with his father the firm 
of J. M. Dake & Son, hardware merchants. I'he 
father furnished most of the capital, but the son had 
the entire management of affairs, and was practically 
the head of the concern. Mr. Dake carried on this 
business for ten years or more, and built u]) a good 
country trade in that part of Livingston county. 
In March, 1879, he sold his interest to a younger 
brother, and the business is still conducted under 
the old firm name of J. M. Dake & Son. 

For the next few years Mr. Dake was variously 
occupied in settling up his affairs at Nunda, and in 
operations in the oil country : but in January, 188."), 
he moved to Buffalo, and bought an interest in the 
Niagara Baking Co. there. In this new line of 
activity he was successful from the first, and the 
ra])id growth of the business furnishes abundant 
evidence of his fitne.ss for the management of 
large interests. When he became connected with 
the establishment it employed about twenty-five 
men, and was comijaratively a local concern : the 
|)lant now employs 12") hands, and its jiroduct is 
sold in Xew York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. 

In 189(1 the United States Baking Co. was organ- 
ized for the purpose of absorbing into a single cor- 
|)oration numerous baking plants in the central and 
eastern part of the country, thus unifying their 
policies, perfecting their methods of doing business, 
and preventing disastrous com])etition. The com- 
|)any has been highly successful, and has grown to 
be one of the largest concerns of its kind in the 
world. Mr. Dake was a prime mover in this con- 
solidation of interests; and in October, 1890, he 
merged his business into the L'nited States Baking 
Co. under the special name of the Niagara Bakery 
Branch. He has been one of the directors of the 
cori)oration since this time, and was assistant gen- 
eral manager of the company in 1891. In that year 
he spent several months in Boston, building a large 



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lakery lor the L"nite(l States Kakinj; Co.. and 
fjetting the plant into smooth running order. Re 
turning to Kufraio, he resumed the active oversight 
of the Niagara liakery, ami has since been so em- 
ployed. In 1H!»."{ he erected for his l)ranch of the 
liusiness a large four-story building on .Michigan 
street, complete in all its apix>intments, 
and admirably adapted to the needs of 
the extensive business. 

Mr. Dake has always been a stanch 
Republican, and for many year>i during 
his residence in Livingston county took 
an active |>art in public affairs, serving 
on the county committee, and otherwise 
advancing the interests of his party. 
He attends the Delaware Avenue Baptist 
Church, Buffalo. 

PE/iSO.\AL ClIROXOL OGY — 
Moses William Dake 7e'as lutni at Port- 
age, N. Y., March 2S, ISJfl ; was edu- 
fateJ at district schools ami Nuiula Acad- 
emy : was clerk in a hardware store at 
AlMon, X. v., 1S04-»jS : married Har 
riet T. Hallenhake of Alhioii December 
Ji, 1867: engaged in the hardware busi- 
ness at Niinda, lS0S-7f) : litis carried on 
the Niagara Baking Co., noio kno7cn as 
the A'iagara Bakery Branch L '. .S. Bakin:; 
Co., Buffalo, since tSS'.!. 



was then taken into the firm, which assumeii the style 
of (leorge T. Thurstone & Co. 

.\t the expiration of two year>. .Mr. Dambach .sold 
his interest in the drug business, and entered the 
medi(al dejiiirtment of Niagara Lniversity as a 
student. Ill- "-pent one vear there, and gained a 



"CaiUiam C. Sambacb, i">iikc 

man\ men of the presciil (la\, has con 
fined him.self wholly to one line of activ 
ity, and has won success in the same 
(ailing in which he first found employ 
nient a.s a boy. The storv of such a life 
<ontr,usts markedly with that of the man 
who ha.s trieil his hand at various occu- 
IKitions in the way of trade or manufac- 
ture. Though the latter may gain something as 
regards general experience, he un(|uestionably loses 
much valuable time in the battle of life. 

Mr. Dambach was born in Buffalo just two 
months from the day Kort Siunter fell into the 
hands of the Confederates. He was educated in 
the public .schools of his native citv, but left school 
at the age of tbtirteen, and began to earn his own 
living. Having obtained a situation with C. M. 
Lyman, a Buffalo druggist, he was set to work wash- 
ing bottles, running (he .soda fountain, and making 
him.self generally useful about the store. .M'ter 
speniling a year in this |)osition he entered the dnig 
store ot Thurstone & Co., Buffalo, remaining in 
their service until he attained his majority. He 




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jiractical knowledge of medicine that has since been 
of great value to Ijim in his business. Having 
dec ided that a commercial career was likely to be 
more congenial than a profession, he alandoned 
his medical studies, and opened a drug store on 
Seneca street, Buffalo. This was in !««."), and he 
continued to do business there for ten years. In 
the meantime, on January 1, 1«!I'J, he established 
an uptown store on Main street : and since .Ma\ 
1, IHilo. he has confined his business to the latter 
location. 

In additicm to his ordinary drug business .Mr. 
Damliaih devotes considerable attention to the 
manufacture of various pharmaceutical pre|>arations. 
He has recently completed a laboratory admirably 



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equipped for this purpose, where he will be able to 
conduct the manufacturing i)ranch of his business 
on a larger scale than has hitherto been practicable. 
Mr. Dambach concentrates his whole energy upon 
his business, and it is already apparent that this 
singleness of aim will be rewarded by unusual success. 




II //./,/. ;.l/ C. DAMBACH 

PERSONAL CI fRONOLOGY— William C. 
Dambac/i was born at Buffalo June 13, 1861 ; 7cias 
educated in the public schools ; served as clerk in a 
drug store, 1S75-82 : 7C>as a member of the drug Jinn 
of George I. Thurstone &- Co. , 1882-8^ ; studied 
medicine for one year .■ has conducted a drug business 
in Buffalo since 188'). 

COUraO H)iebl, though still in iHc prime of 
life, is classed in the popular mind with the older 
jjhysicians of Buffalo. This comes about from the 
fact that he has always lived in the city, began the 
practice of his profession there early in life, and 
attained public office, and consequent |)rominenre, 
while yet a young man. 



.\fter attending public and private schools in 
Buffalo, and obtaining thereliy an excellent pre- 
paratory education, Dr. Diehl entered upon his pro- 
fessional studies in the medical department of the 
University of Buffalo. During the last two years 
of his course he held the ]josition of resident 
])hysician at the coujity almshouse. After 
graduating from the University of Buf- 
falo with the cla.ss of 'G6 he determined 
to round out his professional ec|ui|)ment 
with a course of study in the old world, 
and with this end in view he went abroad 
in the siunmer of that year. Having 
studied under the best instructors on the 
continent for a year, he returned to this 
country, and opened an office in Buffalo 
May 1, 1867, for the general practice of 
medicine. He has followed his profes- 
sion in that city continuouslv since the 
date mentioned. 

Dr. Diehl was well and favorably- 
known in the ( ity of his birth even at 
this earl) period of life, and the fact 
was strikingly evidenced in his nomina- 
tion for the position of coroner in the 
fall of ].S(i7. He was elected by an ex- 
tremely large majority, and filled the 
office efficiently for a term of three 
years. He declined a renomination, 
deeming it best to devote his whole time 
to prisate ])ractice and hospital work. 
In I'cbruary, 1874, he was apjiointed 
attending physician at the (Jencral Hos- 

Upital, holding that position until the 
tleath of Dr. Rochester, when he was 
appointed consulting physician : he is 
still serving in the latter capacity. For 
the last twenty-three years Dr. Diehl 
has been secretary to the medical staff 
of the (General Hospital. He served as surgeon to 
the tioth regiment from 1870 to 1878 ; and for six 
years, beginning in 1871, he was attending surgeon 
at the Krie-county almshouse. He has been a 
member of the Buffalo board of school examiners 
since its organization, and was chairman of the 
board until February, l.SlKi, when he declined a 
re-election. He is president of the medical board 
of the (Jerman Deaconess Society. He is a strong 
.supporter of the movement for civil-service reform, 
and was a member of the first civil-service commis- 
sion of Buffalo. He belongs to various jjrofessional 
and other societies. 

PERSONAL CUR ONOL O G Y— Conrad Diehl 
was born at Buffalo July 17, 18pi ; toas educated in 



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fiublic anJ private schools; gratlualeJ from thf mtii- 
ical department of the University of Buffalo in ISliO ; 
leas coroner of Erie county, ISUS-IO : married 
Caroline Trautman of H'eissemhoHrt;, Alsace, May '), 
1S09, and Lois .\f. .\fasten of Somerset, Mass., May 
J8, ISOJ : lias l>een a member of the Buffalo board 
of school examiners since its organization in IHfti ; has 
practiced medicine in Buffalo since 1867. 



I'UCSlCV C. E>UMCV is so well known in west 
crn Ncu \ ork, and Ikl-> l>een in the public eye so 
long, that most people will be surprised to learn 
that the Civil War antedated his liirth by several 
years. After attending ilislrict schools and the 
Aurora Academy in his native county, Mr. Dudley 
began his active career at the age of seventeen as 
a teacher. In this way he procured means to 
complete his course at .Aurora .\cademy, 
graduating therefrom in 1«HK. lie then 
resumed teaching, becoming princi|>al of 
the Sardinia L'nion School, and after- 
ward of the .Mden L'nion School. His 
success as an educator was sue h that in 
1JS90 he was nominated by the Repub 
lican [Mirty for the office of school 
commissioner of the eight Krie-iounty 
"south towns." The ( ountv itself on 
this occasion went Democratic- by a plu- 
rality of 2()0U, but Mr. Dudley's reputa- 
tion and |jen>onal popularity carried him 
to victorv in the face of general defeat. 
He seems to haxe made a specialty of 
holding imjiortant |>ositions and doing 
remarkable things at an age yotmger 
than that of other people similarly cir- 
cumstanced : and in this case, for exam- 
ple, when he became school commis- 
sioner at the age of twenty-three, he was 
the youngest man in the state holding 
that office. 

Hut Mr. Diidle) had other ends in 
view than the attainment of a high posi 
tion among educators. Seeing clearK 
that his talents would find abundaiii 
room for exerc ise in the legal pri)fcs.-<ion, 
he declined a renomination to the posi- 
tion of school commis.sioner, and en- 
tered the office of Rogers, Locke i\; 
Milburn as a student. The lawyers thus 
a.s.soc iated constitute one of the strongi-st 
legal firms of HiilTalo, or even of the state, and in 
their office .Mr. Dudley made rapitl jirogress in the 
mastery of the law. He was admitted to the lar at 
Rochester in October. IMiM. atid began the practice 



of his profetision at once in KufTalo. For about two 
years he practiced alone, but on September 1, 1H90, 
he formed a |>artnership with Millord W. Childs, son 
of Justice Henry .\. C"hilds, under the firm name of 
Dudley iV Child.s. The new I'lrm begins business 
with all antecedent conditions highly lavorablc. anci 
sul>stantial success may safely be predicted. 

In .some ipiarters Mr. Dudley is better known .i> ;i 
liublic man than in hi.^ professional ca|>;uity. We 
have already noted his early politic al prominence in 
the southern part of Ivrie county. He has retained 
this personal following in that locality, and has at 
the same time extended his inlluence in other |iarls 
of western .New York. In October, llSiM, he was 
elected clerk of the Krie-county board of super- 
visors, and twice since then he has been re-elected. 
In the spring of ISHd he exerted himself actively in 




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sup|X)rt of Mc Kinley's nomination for the presi- 
dency, and was elec ted a delegate to the Repub- 
lican national convention at St. I.oiiis. He was the 
youngest delegate in the convention. 



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Mr. Dudley is a member of Livingstone Lodge, 
No. 25.5, F. & A. NL, of Colden, Erie county, and 
of Aurora Chapter, No. 282, R. A. M. He belongs 
also to the Independent (^rder of Odd Fellows, and 
to the Roval .Arcanum. 




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PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Wesley Cole- 
man Dudley 7c>as Iwni at Colden, Erie eoitnty, N. Y. , 
May SI, 1,967 ; attended district schools and East 
Aurora (N. Y.) Academy ; taught school, 1881^-90 ; 
u>as elected school commissioner of the southern part of 
Erie county in 1890 ; studied laiv in Buffalo, and 
7(uis admitted to the bar in 189Jf : married Flo\ Belle 
Stickncy of Buffalo April 18, 189.'t .■ has been clerk of 
the Erie-county board of supervisors since October, 
189 If ; has practiced law in Buffalo since 189 J^. 



HrtbUr la. "IbiCftman, iirominent at the bar 
of Lric county i^ii the la>l twenty years, and well 
known otherwise as a public-sjiirited citizen, was 
l)orn in Calhoun county, Michigan, in the mid-century 
year. His jjarents, Isaac Hickman and Kli/a Bale 



Hickman, were troni Devonshire, England, and 
came to this country in 1.H47. .Mr. Hickman was 
taken to Buffalo during his infancy, and has lived 
there ever since. He attended the public schools 
of the city, and went through the high school, grad- 
uating therefrom with the class of '68. 
Having determined to make the legal 
profe.ssion his life-work, Mr. Hickman 
entered the office of Austin & Austin, 
Buffalo, soon alter his graduation from 
the high school, for the purpose of learn- 
ing law by studying text-books, and bv 
observing the actual routine practice of 
the profession in a busy office. There 
were few law schools in those days, and 
these were not looked upon with favor 
by the bench or bar, being regarded as 
places for the easy manufacture of law- 
yers. Their students were not reijuired 
to pass qualifying examinations, and so 
were often admitted with little knowl- 
edge of the law. Mr. Hickman found 
the office method of learning law en- 
tirely practicable and successful. He 
was admitted to the bar at Rochester in 
September, 1871, and was thus able to 
begin the practice of his ]irofession when 
he had been out of the high school but 
three years. 

As he was then onlv twenty-one vears 
old, he thought it unnecessary to open 
an office of his own at once, and he con- 
tinued with .\ustin & Austin for about a 
year as their managing clerk. In the 
fall of 1872 Benjamin H. .Austin, Sr.. 
retired from the firm, and .Mr. Hickman 
formed a partnership with the \ounger 
Mr. Austin. The firm of Austin & Hick- 
man carried on a successful practice until 18751, 
when Mr. .Austin moved to the Hawaiian islands to 
accept a judgeship. For the next few years, during 
which his time was largely taken >i|) with political 
matters, Mr. Hickman |jracticed alone. In 18X4 
he formed a partnership with .Nathaniel S. Rosenau, 
under the style Hickman cV- Ro.scnau. This a.sso- 
ciation conlinued less than two years, as Mr. 
Rosenau withdrew in 1885 to take charge of the 
charity -organization work in Buffalo. For eight 
years after this Mr. Hickman carried on an impor- 
tant practice without jjartnershi]) a.ssistance ; but in 
189;! he formcti with William I'almer the firm of 
Hickman iV- I'almer. This a.ssociation still con- 
tinues, and the firm .serves acceptably a large 
number of individual and corporate clients. Mr. 



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Hickman began practice so young that his exiieriencc 
rivals that of many older men : anil his judgment in 
legal affairs is such as might be expected to result 
from twenty-five years of conscientious service at an 
exceptionally able bar. He is a lecturer on phar- 
maceutical juriNpnidenie in the Huir.ild College of 
Pharmacy. 

Mr. Hickman lia.s enjoyed a large pnu tn c ilnnni; 
almost all his professional life ; but he has not |)er- 
mitted his pri\ale interests to absorb his energies, 
and he has taken a good tleal of time for publit 
duties, and for certain matters promoting the gen- 
eral welfare. Muni<ipal reform, the enlargement 
and betterment of the ISuffalo system of docks, the 
improvement of the public schools, and good gov- 
ernment in general, are subjects thai have engaged 
his attention with resultant benefit to his fellow - 
citizens. His service in the state legis- 
lature in the years Isxi-X'i affords abun 

dant evidence of his public spirit. He 
shaped his conduct in the a.s.sembly with 
reference to the welfare of his constit 
uents, unmindful of his own politiial 
preferment, and without regard to the 
wishes of machine politicians. His hon- 
est independence and refusal to become 
the tool of a jtolitiial "boss,"" cost him 
the (Jarty nomination for re-election. 
On this occasion, however, the politi- 
cians were reckoning without their host, 
and the people chose to exercise their 
right of self-government. .\ petition 
signed by lodO of the most prominent 
men in the district urged Mr. Hickman 
to become a candidate for re-election on 
an independent ticket. He did so, and 
was elected by a majority of lM4!t votes, 
the Democrats making no nomination. 

In social life .Mr. Hickman has en 
joyed the |)rominence to which his |)ro 
fessional standing and his engaging per 
sonal (jualities entitle him. He belongs 
to many social organizations, including 
the Oakfield, Yacht, Island, and KUiiotl 
clubs. For fifteen years he has been a 
trustee of the Kirst |{a|itist t'hurch. He 
takes an active interest in practical phi 
lanthropy, and belongs to most of the 
charitable organizations of Htinalo. He 
is one of the directors of the (lerman 
Young Men's Association, and was secretary of the 
building committee during the construction of Music 
Hall. He belongs to the liuffalo < >rpheus and I.ie- 
dertafel, and is a life member of the HulTalo l.ibrarv. 



I'EKSO.Wll. Cll RONOL O C V—Arthi,i 
Washiiij^ton Hicknian wiis horn at Mitrshall, Calliouii 
county, Mich., June IS, IS-'tH ; n'lis filiicatfJ in the 
Buffalo fiultlic schools .• was admitttil to the bar at 
Rochester in IS71 ; was member of assembly from the 
■ 1,1 Erie-county ilistrict. ISSIS.'. h,i< t>r,icticr,l Ia7,' 
in Buffalo since IS] .' 

E*CVOC IP. 1l.■>0^i<0ll, «L"I1 known in wi-stern 
.New N'ork >is .1 member of the Krie-counly bar, was 
born at Ithaca, I'limiikins county, in l«r»(i. His 
general education was attpiired in the public schools 
of lihaia, in the a< ademy at the sinne ])lace, and 
in Cornell Iniversity. His legal edmation was 
obtained in the office of Samuel I ». Halliday 
and in that of Judge Marcus Lyon. Both of 
his preceptors were prominent attorneys of Ithaca, 




\N Tin K II ///' A 1/ l\ 

and his clerkship in their offices proved an ex- 
cellent sulistitute for a law school. He was ad- 
mitted to the liar at Saratoga Springs in September, 
1x77. 



A/EX OF .XKir )-OKf,-~irEsri-:R.\ skct/ox 



Beginning practice at once in Ithaca, Mr. Hodson 
followed his calling in that city for the next ten 
years. He was successful as regards both his profes- 
sional practice and the outside affairs with which 
most lawyers hecome more or less concerned ; but 
in 1887 he made a radical change in his vocation 



nicroK J'. HODsox 

and his residence. In the year mentioned he jjur- 
chased a half interest in the news])aper and ])rinting 
plant of the Ithaca Republican, a jiaper then ]ju1)- 
lished Ijy Walter (1. Smith. Messrs. Smith and 
liodson determined to move their plant bodily to 
southern California, and accordingly they established 
in San Diego a large ])rinting office, publishing in 
connection therewith the Afofiiiiii; Tfle;^iam. This 
business ])roved unsuited to Mr. Hodson, and after 
a few months he .sold his interest to his ])artner, re- 
turned to Ithaca, and resumed the i)ractice of law. 

Concluding that Buffalo offered greater attractions 
as a place of resident e than the smaller city, and 
greater promise of material rewards as a field of 
Ijrofessional practice, Mr. Hodson left Ithaca in 



since 189.S. 




February, 18<sy, and opened an office in the metrop- 
olis of western New York. He practiced alone 
there for four years, and then associated himself 
with George B. Webster in the firm of Hodson & 
Webster. They have continued to practice together 
Mr. Hodson concentrates his efforts on 
the contested work of his firm, and is 
regarded as a successful and effective ad- 
vocate before judge or jury. 

During his student days Mr. Hodson 
espoused the cause of Democracy, and 
has ever since been prominent in the 
councils of that party. In 1882-83 he 
was clerk of the board of supervisors of 
Tompkins county. In 1885-86 he was 
corporation counsel of Ithaca. Shortly 
after moving to Buffalo he received the 
unusual distinction of an election by the 
municipal authorities of Niagara Falls as 
non-resident corporation ( ounsel : this 
office he held two terms. In 1892 he 
was appointed by the state comptroller a 
commissioner to report upon the accounts 
of surrogates throughout New York state 
relative to the collateral-inheritance law. 
In 1898 he was nominated for the office 
of delegate to the constitutional conven- 
tion, but shared the general defeat of 
the Democratic party in that year. Mr. 
Hodson is a prominent platform .speaker, 
and has taken a leading part in every 
important political campaign since he 
has lived in Buffalo. He is an active 
member of the .Masonic fraternity, be- 
longing to Ancient Landmark Lodge, 
No. 441, F. & .\. M.: he is also a mem- 
ber of other fraternal societies. 

PERSONAL CUR ONOL OCY— 
Devoe Pell Hodson loas horn at Ithaca, 
N. Y. , March 23, 1860 ; was educated in the public 
schools of Ithaca and in Cornell University ; studied 
law in Ithaca law offices, and was admitted to the 
bar in 1877; married Afariette Wood of Painted 
Post, N. Y. , December 23, 1880 ; rcas clerk of the 
Tompkins-county board of supen'isors, 1882-83, and 
corporation counsel of Ithaca, 1885-80 ; practiced law 
in Ithaca, 1877-8!), with the exception of a few 
mouths spent in southern California, and has prac- 
ticed in Buffalo since 188.9 ; was non-resident corpora- 
tion counsel of Niagara Falls, N. K, 1890-92. 

30bH 1^. IHCff, '!"«■ auditor of lOrie county, 
and heretofore well known in western New York as 
a |)nblic oftuial, was born in I'.uffali) in 18(;2. lie 



.\/K.\ or AAM- )(^h'S—lVESTE/i.\ SECT/OX 



,ii:y 



was educated in the public schools of that city, at- 
tending them from the time he was eight years old 
until the age of sixteen. At the latter stage of life 
he became a messenger boy for the Western I'nion 
Telegraph Co., and followed that interesting < ailing 
for the next two years. Deciding then to connect 
him.self with some business in a permanent ca|)acily, 
he obtained a suitable jwsition with the freight- 
carrying com]>any known as the Red I.ine, and 
liegan his long service in the transportation indus- 
try. He learned the business rapidly, and soon 
became an ex|jert in the comjiutation and auditing 
of mileage recorils. He remained with the Red 
I.ine for eight years, or until he was tsveiity-six years 
old. Hy that time he hai^l de( ideil to stop work 
ing for others, and to embark in business on his own 
account. In I)S)S(;, accordingly, he oi>ened an office 
in Buffalo for the writing of insurance, 
and has since carrietl on that business 
with marked succe.ss. He makes a spe- 
cialty of steam-boiler, plate-glass, and 
accident insurance. 

.•\i the relatively early age of twent\ ■ 
nine Mr. N'elT entered upon the |)olitical 
career by which he is best known to the 
public at large. He had taken a keen 
and intelligent interest in public affairs 
from his early manhood, affiliating with 
the Republican jiarty ; but he held no 
office until IHill, when he was elected 
one of the supervisors of Krie county 
from the 7th ward, Buffalo. His work 
in this office wa.s so satisfactory to his 
constituents that he was re-elected in 
1H9S. He serveil upon the purchasing 
and auditing lommittee of the board of 
supervisors, one of the most important 
a.ssignments. When that committee was 
abolished in !«!(."», and the office of 
county auditor was created to take its 
|)lace, Mr. NelT was imanimously nomi- 
nateil lor the i>osition by the Republiian 
county convention, and was elected to 
the office by a majority of l.^,0()f) votes. 
He is now discharging efficiently the 
duties of this res|)onsible jiosition, his 
term of office running until I )e< ember 
:!1, lH!)!t. 

Mr. Neff is I'ond of social life, and 
belongs to various fraternal societies. 
He is a member of .-\ncient landmark Lodge, 
No. 441, F. & A. M., and of Buffalo Lodge, No. 
.%, I. (). O. !•. He belongs, al.so, to the Royal 
.Arcanum, and is a charter member of the Odd 



Fellows' flub. He attends Calvary Presbyterian 
Church. 

PERSONAL CHROXOLOGV—John William 
Xeffwas honi at Buffalo Manh 2.i, 1H62 : atUn,tt,l 
/>u/>lii schools : 7i>orkfii for llif Rfit Line fast-fifi^hl 
ii'iii/>any, lf\S(l—SS : marrif,! Era J. Sloan of Buffalo 
May 10, ISSU ami Elizal'fth A. Mrnzifs of Buffalo 
January 27, ISfMi ; 7oas elfcUd a county suf>frfisor 
from the 7 til ward of Buffalo in ISiil, and was re- 
elected in IS.O.} : was elected auditor of Erie county in 
Xwemher, 1,S!>',, for tlie term lSft(J-!H) : lias con- 
ducted an insurance business in Buffalo since ISSfi. 



GCOrOC 1R. Stearns has practiced his pro- 
fe.ssiori in Buffalo, his tuui\c city, for nearly a siore 
of years. Imleed, with the e\ce|)tion of the lime 
spent in college, his whole life has been |>assed in 




Jii/I\ II \i:il- 

the Queen City. 'Che story of his career, made up 
of successful work in high school, university, and 
medical college, from each of which he graduated 
with honors, followed bv more succes-sful work in 



:::;ti 



1// \' ()/■■ .\7-:ir )(Vv>A— n7:.s-7y;A'.\' s/:ir/(->x 



his chosen prolcssioii, is not ;in t.-\ cut till one : Imt it 
is none the less interesting. 

Born in IJuffalo somewhat more than forty years 
ago, Dr. Stearns obtained his preliminary education 
in the city schools, beginning with Public School 
No. 11, and ending with the Buffalo High School, 




CEORCE R. STEARXS 

froiTi which he graduated in liSTl. He then 
entered the University of Rochester, graduating 
with the class of 'To and receiving the degree of 
.\. B. In 187H the same institution gave him the 
degree of A. M. in course. Dr. Stearns went to 
New York city to obtain his medical education, be- 
coming a student in the New York Homeopathic Med- 
ical College and Hospital and receiving his M. D. 
degree in 1X78. He then spent a year at Ward's 
Island Homeoi)athic Hos|)ital, to whi( h he had re- 
ceived, in competitive examination, an appointment 
as senior member of staff. The practical experience 
there gained was of the utmost value to the young 
physician, and fmely fitted him to begin the practice 
of his profession. 



In l-STi), theretbre, Dr. Stearns returned to 
r.uffalo, and opened an office on Linwood avenue, 
where he has since remained. He has resisted 
the modern tendency to limit his field to cer- 
tain specialties, and has conducted a general prac- 
tice with gratifying success. In addition to his 
])rivate practice he holds the position of 
obstetrician in the Buffalo Homeopathic 
Hospital, is president of the Training 
School for Nurses connected with that 
institution, and is medical director of 
the Ingleside Home of Buffalo. He has 
served the public as district ])hysician 
and physician at the county jail. 

Dr. Stearns is a member of the Krie 
C'ounty Homeopathic Medical Society, 
the Homeopathic Medical Society of 
Western New Y'ork, and the New York 
State Homeopathic Medical Society ; he 
was elected president of the Western 
New York society in 189(). He ha.s 
written articles for these and other scien- 
tific and professional associations, which 
have been jniblished in their journals 
and transactions. While in college Dr. 
Stearns joined the Alpha Delta Phi 
fraternity, and after graduation he was 
elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa 
society. He is a charter member of 
both the Liberal and University clubs of 
Buffalo, and expects to become a member 
of the Sons of the Revolution, in virtue 
of the active part taken by his ancestors 
in the early struggle for independence. 

From his childhood Dr. Stearns has 

been connected with the Lafayette Street 

(now the Lafayette Avenue) Presbyterian 

Church, and since 188(i he has been a 

member of the Session of the society. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— George Ray- 

iiolds Stearns ivas born at Buffalo March 20, 1853 ; 

attended Buffalo public schools, and graduated from 

tlie University of Rochester in 1873 ; graduated from 

the Ne7i' York Homeopathic Medical College and 

Hospital in 1878, and spent the follo^mng year in 

Ward' s Island Homeopathic Hospital, N^eni York city ; 

married Jennie S. Olver of Buffalo May 2',, 1880 : 

has practiced medicine in Buffalo since 1879. 



5obn tTrCftS 'las been a foremost figure in the 
iron industr\- of Buffalo for half a century. He 
lived in Pittsburg when a young man, and learned 
there the trade of an iron molder. His long resi- 
dence in liuflalo began in the year 184'), when he 



.i/A.\ I'/ A/;;/- ) oA'A— ;/7;\/A7i'.\ s/:ir/<)X 



.rti 



look charge of the fouiulry de|>urtincnt of ihc HiilTalo 
Steam Kngine Works. He remained with this con- 
< ern and its successors nearly twenty years, nci|nir- 
ing stock in the com|xiny, anil taking an ini|K>rtant 
|)art in the l)iisinesji. The |>anic of 1H.")7 brought 
liisaster to the HufTalo Steam Kngine Works, as to 
thousands of other concerns ; anil the business was 
reorganized under the style of (leorge W. Tifft, 
Sons & Co. .\lr. Trefts remained with the new 
firm seven years, and contributed \ery materially to 
the siu ress of the liusiness in that period. t'hietU 
through his skill as an iron worker and knowledge 
of iron ores, the TilTt firm was able to carry through 
profitably in IHiiO a contract for the manufacture ot 
the rails used in laying the first .street railway in 
HufTalo 

.\ greater degree of historical interest attaches to 
-Mr. Trefls's connection with the (letro- 
leum industry. Soon after Colonel K. 
I.. Drake "struck oil" in .August, l«5!t, 
near Titusville, Fenn., and thereby set 
in motion one of the greatest industrial 
forces of the century, Mr. 'I'refts inter- 
esteil himself actively in the oil business 
both as an operator and as a manufacturer 
of mechanical appliances used in the 
production of oil. He made the castings 
for the engine used to pump the Drake 
well. In IHGO he associated himself 
with 1*. S. Willard, and leased a [lart of 
the Shaffer farm, not far from Colonel 
Drake's original discovery. In ojierat- 
ing their well here they used the first 
engine that ever drilled with a rope, as 
well as the first set of jars ever employed 
in oil jiroduction. These jars were in- 
vented by Mr. Willard, and were ill 
adajited to their pur|jose, so that the 
well was not a success, resulting in a 
"plugged hole." Relic hunters inter- 
ested in the subject may pleasantly em- 
ploy themselves in excavating these jars, 
;is they are still in their untimely grave, 
buried under 81f<00 worth of ex])erience. 

Mr. 'i'refts's next venture was on the 
Ham McClintock farm, near Oil City. 
In attciniitmg to drill this well his work- 
men became discouraged, and were dis- 
|>osed to al)andon operations, so that 
.\lr. I'refts took charge of the work per- 
.sonally. .\fter dislodging three set.s of tools left in 
the well by former drillers, he vindicated his faith 
by discovering a well that yielded 200 barrels of oil 
a dav. .\ few weeks after this he succeeded in com- 



pleting the well-known \an Slyke well on the 
Widow Mi-Clinlijck farm. He had no interest in 
this well, which was owned by John Van Slyke and 
C. M. Karrar. Work had been aUindoned on the 
well, but Mr. Trefts felt so confident that oil could 
be foiinil there that he undertook further explora- 
tions at his own expense. His juilgment proved 
excellent, as the well |)roduced •J.")0(> Iwrrels of oil 
a da\. 

These ventures in the oil country had not inter- 
fered with .Mr. I'refts's regular on ii|>ation at the TilTt 
works in Buffalo. On the contrary, his experience 
xs an actual producer of oil helped him materially in 
later life as a manufacturer of the various machines 
used by oil ojierators. In other iiarts of the busi- 
ness as well Mr. Trefts was |)articularly successful. 
For many years the pro|)eller wheels made by him 




ji>//\ T/fi-.fT.s 

were dcemeil more durable than any wheels else 
where obt;iinable. This superiority was the result 
of his knowledge of iron, and ability in mixing 
various kinds of ore so as to produce the maximum 



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.XfEX OF XEir VOh'K—lVKSTEKX S/CC770X 



strength in the linihhed product. 1!\' the year l<S(i4 
he had acqtiired such a mastery of liis business, and 
had attained such a reputation among buyers of 
foundry ])roducts, that he felt able to give up his 
])Osition at the 'i'ifft concern, and embark in busi- 
ness on his own account. He formed a partnership. 




/il)l\ Ikl) K. I-.MI-.RV 

accordingly, with (hiUiun .M. Farrar and Theodore 
C. Knight, under the style of Farrar, 'I'refts & 
Knight, for the purpose of establishing a foundry, 
machine shop, and general iron works. In liS(i!) 
Mr. Knight retired from the firm ; but the other 
partners, under the well-known style of Farrar & 
'I'refts, have carried on the l)usiness ever since, 
'i'heir resources at first were slight; but their ex- 
perience, energy, and character ensured ultimate 
.success. The business expanded year by year until 
now the firm is known throughout the iron trade as 
one of the most .succe.ssful concerns in its line in the 
country. Boilers of all kinds, propeller wheels, 
steam engines, iron and brass castings, and a multi- 
tude of special mechanical appliances used in vari- 



ous industries, are some of the famous " F. & T." 
products. The works of the concern occupy three 
acres of valuable land in Buffalo. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— John Trefts 

passed his youth in Pittsburg ; 7c'as in the employ of 

the Buffalo Steam Engine Works and their successors, 

18^.5-64; engaged in oil production, ]8i)9- 

OJf ; has conducted a foundry and general 

iron iLwrks at Buffalo since 1SU4- 



]£&war& Ik. JEmer^, elected to 

the bench of the Erie County Court in 
li'Sil.'J, has worked hard all his life, and 
has reaped a reward consistent with his 
efforts and deserts. Though not far be- 
yond the period of life allotted to 
"young men," he has already solved 
the problem of prosperity, and has made 
his future secure. His success is the 
more noteworthy from the fact that he 
selected a field of labor in which rewards 
are long delayed, and never come by 
chance, or as the residt of anything but 
work and worth. 

Born in East Aurora, Erie county, in 
iJS.ll, Judge Emery spent his youth and 
early manhood after the manner of many 
young men in the country dependent on 
themselves for a professional education. 
By teaching school in winter and farm- 
ing in summer he acipiired .sufficient 
means to pursue the study of law. Pro- 
ceeding to Buffalo for tliat purjwse, he 
gave his days and nights to legal research 
with characteristic earnestness, and was 
admitted to the liar in 1.S77. He began 
the practice of law in Buffalo at once, 
and soon became known as a trustworthy 
adviser in all legal matters. This favor- 
able reputation was confirmed in his further prac- 
tice, and he was regarded during his later years at 
the bar as one of the alilest of the younger attorneys 
in Erie county. 

Like so many other lawyers, Jutlge I'jnery began 
early in his career to take a keen interest in polit- 
ical affairs. His convictions on ])ublic questions 
have harmonized with the principles of the Reijubli- 
can jjarty, and for many years he has enjoyed the 
confidence of Republican leaders and .shared their 
counsels. He first came prominently before the 
public as a candidate for office in the fall of 1886, 
when he received the Republican nomination for 
the assembly in the old -"ith i^rie-county district. 
He was elected that year and again the next, and 



j/AA' or .\/:n- voKK—ivEsrEhw s/:cr/o\ 



33S 



served on iin|K)rtant committees in the asscmlily in 
the sessions of 1KX7-XX. For the next few years his 
law practice was so large that he thought it inexpedi- 
ent to re-enter political life, though he continued to 
follow pui)lic affairs closely. In the fall of lX!t."), 
however, when the Republican i>arty offered him pro- 
fessional and political honors at once in the nomina- 
tion for the office of county judge, he wisely decided 
to accept the candidacy. He was elected by a major- 
ity of mure than HdOO votes over his Democratic 
opixjnent, and on January 1, IXiXi, liejjan his term 
of si.x years. 

Judge Kmery ha.s many traits of minil and charac- 
ter that make him prominent in social life, and he 
ha.s a witle circle of friends. He helongs to various 
fraternal organizations, including the Masonic order, 
the Odd Fellows, and the Royal .\rcanum. 

PERSONAL CHROyOLOa Y— 
Eduiaid Kfllo:^ Emery was horn al 
East Aurora, N. Y., July M>, is:,l; 
atlt-niied the i/is/rk/ .u/ioo/s and ai-adt'iny 
of /lis nath'f /oion : faug/it scluud and 
studied law, and 7i'as admitted to the har 
in 1877 ; married Clara li. Dar/iee of 
East Aurora Ocloher 7, iSSd ; rcas mem- 
ber of assembly, 18S7-SS ; praetieed law 
in Buffalo, lS77-!>o ; was elected jud^e of 
the Erie County Court in ISOo for the 
term 1SfM!-iri<ll. 

ByvOll S. Gibson, long a leading 
merchant of ICast .-Xurora, N. Y., and 
latterly a jirominent man in the public 
alTairs of the town, was born there in 
Sejitember, 1 «.")!(. He wa.s educated in 
the ilistrict .schools of hi.s native town, 
and in the academy at the .same ])lace. 
His father, t'hisman Clibson, carried on 
a clothing and boot and shoe business 
at ICast Aurora for nearly forty years, and 
Byron entered the store at the age of 
nineteen for the purjiose of aci|uainting 
himself thoroughly with mercantile af- 
fairs. He remaineil with his father until 
the latter's death in ltt!(0, when he pur 
chased the business from the estate. He 
has since conducted the enterprise with 
the success that might have been pre- 
dicted from his long experience and 
excellent school of commercial training. 
The store is still located in the .same plat e where the 
elder Mr. (libson began business in the middle of 
the century : the establishment has been for many 
years one of the landmarks of the village. 



F^st .\urora has come to be a good deal of a 
town, and its |iopulation extend?, over a ci>rre>pond- 
ingly wide area. The original (libson establishment 
was located in the western jart of F-ast Aurora, in 
the village called Willink. Deeming it desirable to 
reach the im|>ortant trade at the other end of the 
town, Mr. (iil)son formed a |>;irtner>hip, in March, 
|X!II, with A. F;. Hammond, for the purpose of 
carrying on a business in clothing and general 
furnishings in the territory not covered by the ^\'il- 
link store. This project was successfully carried 
out, and Mr. (iibson now has a nourishing trade in 
l>oth his individual establishment and his jtartner- 
ship concern. 

Having lived in F'.ast .Aurora all his life, and 
taken a leading [Kirt in the businc-ss and social affairs 
of the community, Mr. (Iibson grailually attained 




iiVKDX />. i;ffiso\ 

political prominent e as well. In Man h, 1X92, he 
was elet ted trustee of the \ illage for two years. .At 
the expiration of this term he received the honor of 
an election as president of the village of F'ast 



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.\!/:\ OF X/:ir ) ORK—ll'ESJJlhW SEC7/0.\ 



Aurora : and in the following year he was re-elected 
to this office. In March, IS!)."), he was also elected 
supervisor from the town of Aurora for two years. 
On this occasion the Democrats paid him the indirect 
but conspicuous compliment of nominating no one 
against him. On November "20, ISSf), Mr. Gibson 




W.lk'KH.X //. IIOOKHH 

was appointed postma.ster of Willink, and held the 
office four years, 1890-93. 

Mr. Gibson is a firm believer in fraternal socie- 
ties, and supports several by membership and regu- 
lar attendance. He belongs to Blazing Star Lodge, 
No. 694, K. & A. M. ; to Ka.st Aurora Chajjter, No. 
282, R. A. M. ; and to the Ma.sonic Life Association 
of Western New York. He is also an Odd Fellow, 
attached to .\urora Borealis Lodge, No. ()42, and a 
meml)er of the Royal Arcanum. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G Y— Byron D. 
Gibson 7c<as horn at East Aurora, N. Y. , September 
12, 1859 ; was educated in district schools and Aurora 
Academy; was a clerk in his father^ s store at East 
Aurora, 1878-00 ; married Hat tic A. Holmes of 



East Aurora September .^, 1882 ; was postmaster at 
Willink, 18f)0-r)3 .- was trustee of the village of East 
Aurora, 1892-.'JJf, and its president, lS!i.'f—')(! ; was 
elected supen'isor of the toicn of Aurora in March, 
l8f)o, for t7Vo years ; has conducted a clothitig store 
at East Aurora since 18!)0. 

Marreu JB. llDooher, a son of 

John antl Philena Hooker, was born in 
Perrysburg, Cattaraugus county, New 
York, in 1836. His father was a native 
of Vermont, and his mother, Philena 
Waterman, of Massachusetts. They set- 
tled on a farm in Cattaraugus county, 
and lived honorable and useful lives pro- 
longed in each case beyond the p.salm- 
ist's allotment of three score years and 
ten. 

W'arren was reared upon his father's 
farm, and became accustomed early in 
life to such toil and discipline as gave 
him strength for future achievement. 
.Aside from the district school he was 
educated at Forestville Academy, from 
which he graduated with honor in LST"). 
Soon after this he began the study of law 
with the late John G. Record of Forest- 
ville. He was admitted to the bar of 
the Supreme Court in 1879, and prac- 
ticed law in Chautauijua county until he 
moved to the West in 1882. 

In 1884 he returned to western New 
York, and entered upon the active prac- 
tice of his profession in Fredonia. He 
has remained there ever since, and has 
attained abundant success in both pro- 
fessional and ])olitical life. In 1878 he 
was elected special surrogate of Chautau- 
(]ua county for a term of three years. 
He was elected sujiervisor of the town of Pomfret 
in 18<S9 and again in 1890, receiving at the latter 
election the unusual com]iliment of the sup])ort of 
both political jiarties. 

In the fall of 1890, at the age of thirty-three, Mr. 
Hooker received the nomination of the Rejjublican 
party for congress in the 84th congressional district, 
comprising the counties of Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, 
and .Mlegany, and was elected by a majority of 
.')72(). He was re-elected in 1892, and again in 
1894, when he received l'),300 plurality. In 189(i 
he was nominated once more, and was elected to 
the 55th congress by a plurality of 27,426 votes. 
These re])eated political triumphs have been 
achieved in a district distinguished for intelligence, 



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anil for the /cal ami aliilitv with whi<'h iiolitiial 
honors are contested. 

In the •)4th congress Mr. Hooker held the ini|a)r- 
tant anil coveted position of chairman of the com- 
mittee on rivers and harl)or>). The bill that he then 
presented to the house in that caiKtcity was not i>nl\ 
|ja.ssed in both branches of conjjress by large majori- 
ties, but was afterward carrieil over a presiilential 
veto. The measure ))rovided for an ap|)ro|>riatiiiii 
larger than that of any pre\ ious bill on the subjeci ; 
but the expenditures authorized were so judi< ious 
and so ci|uitably distributed that the bill was not 
attackeil by the pre.ss, nor i)\ the opposition speakers 
in the campaign of |.S!t(J. 

Mr. Hooker's success as a politii ian is not acci- 
dental, but is due to his able discharge of duty, and 
to the benefits that he has conferred upon his con- 
stituents. Industrious, ambitious, self 
reliant, pleasing in manner, commanilin^ 
in presence, .Mr. Hooker may ionfulenti\ 
look forwaril to a lontinuance ol publii 
favor and of |)olitical honors. 

In Sei)tember, 1HS4, Mr. Hooker wa> 
uniteil in marriage with I'.tta I'-. .\bbe\. 
a daughter of Chauncey .\bbey, lalel\ 
president of the Fredonia National IJank. 
and long a prominent citizen of Chau 
tauijua county. Ihey have two chililren, 
Sherman .Abbey and I'iorence Elizabeth. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY — 
Warren Brnvster I Looker was born at 
Perry s/>urg, N. I", Ninrmber Jj^, IS.'ili : 
7i'as eihifaleii at /'"oristiitte ( N. )'. ) Aaiit- 
emy : stuJied law, am/ was admitted to 
the bar of the Supreme Court in 1879 : 
7(uis elected special surrogate of Chautau- 
i/ua county in 1S7S .■ married Etta E. 
Abbey of Fredonia, N. Y., Sefitemher II, 
1SS4 ; tt-ias super! 'isor o/ the to7on of Pom - 
fret, 18f)0-!)l ; has been member of con 
)^ress since ISfll ,■ has practiced law in 
Fredonia since 1SS.',. 

30bU /IDClEWCU, well known among 
the successful business men of .\llegan\ 
county, was born in New York city in 
l«4!l. His father, Duncan .McEwen, 
came from the Highlands of Scotland, 
and learned the machinist's and mill- 
wright's trades in Cilasgow. He was a 
man of high character and exceptional ability, and 
ultimately obtained the position of sui)crintendcnt 
of one of the large government shipyards at I.ivcr- 
|>ool. He was ambitious, however, to have a busi- 



ness of his own, and wisely decided that .America 
promised the ipiickesl reali/4ition of his ho])es. In 
.\pril, lH4it, accordingly, he cml>arked with his 
family from I.iverfiool in one of the first steani.shi|>s 
lonstructed for ocean traffic. They made the |ias- 
sage in eighteen ilays, then regarded as mar\elously 
i|uick John was born the day they landed in New 
N'ork I ity. 

.After sojourning in various places, Duncan MclCwen 
finally established himself in \Vells\ ille, .Mlegain 
(Oiinty, in .\la\ . lN.'i4. Heginning operations mod- 
estly — a lathe and a drilling maihine, indeetl, 
comprised his entire plant at first — he enlarged his 
business prudently as opjioriunitv offered, and laid 
the foundations in his little foundry and machine 
sho|) for the magnificent Imsiness afterward iIevelo[H.'d 
theret'roin b\ his sons. At the time of his death. 




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however, in Kebriiary, I'OU, the works were hardly 
self-sustaining, and John McKwen, his eldest son, 
was still a l)oy. The shop was rented for a few 
vears, therefore, while John and William, the next 



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son, prepared themselves to take u]j the business. 
By 1868 they felt ready to carry on the work, and 
formed the firm of McEwen Brothers. 

This was nearly thirty years ago, when both the 
brothers were under age and comparatively inex- 
perienced. They had traits of mind and character, 
however, that more than countervailed these de- 
ficiencies, and they achieved a rare degree of success. 
Suffering a temporary setback in October, 1876, 
when their plant was burned, they at once erected a 
substantial brick building, and equipped the same 
with the finest and latest machinery. The firm now 
employs about si.xty workmen, and manufactures 
annually engines, boilers, mill and general machinery 
\akied at SI 2-'), 000 or more. They make a specialty 
of fitting up tanneries, and for twenty-five years past 
they have furnished the machinery for all the tan- 
neries within l-iO miles of Wellsville, including the 
enormous plant at Costello, Penn., the largest in the 
world. John McEwen has been the head and front 
of the concern from the beginning, and its success 
may be ascribed in a sujjerior measure to his energy 
and business sagacity. 

.•Xside from his career as a manufacturer Mr. 
McEwen deserves mention as a ])ublic-spirited citi- 
zen. In political matters he has long been an im- 
portant factor in the Republican party of Allegany 
county, though he has felt unable to neglect his 
business interests in the way that public office might 
reijuire. He was a delegate, however, to the Re- 
publican national convention held at Minneapolis in 
1892. He is a Knight Temjjlar Mason of St. John's 
Commandery, Olean. His connection with the 
Wellsville, Couders];ort & Pine Creek railroad illus- 
trates both his public spirit and his ability as a 
financier. The road was originally jilanned many 
years ago, but work was abandoned after eight miles 
had been graded. In 18!)0 it was rumored that 
Hornellsville capitalists intended to build a compet- 
ing line that would seriously retard the growth and 
prosjjerity of Wellsville. Under the circumstances 
Wellsville deemed it highly imijortant to \m\. its road 
through at once. Mr. McEwen personally circulated 
the paper for siil)scriptions ; and he was elected 
president and general manager of the new comjjany, 
and gave close attention to the construction, equip- 
ment, and operation of the road. 'i"he enterprise 
was highly successful, and when the road was sold, 
in 189."), the stockholders realized a handsome profit 
on their investment. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G Y—John McEwen 
was horn at New York city April 21, ISIfi ; moved to 
Wellsville, Alkf^any count}', N. Y., in 185^; married 
Emma Alger October 30, 1879 ; began business as a 



manufacturer of machinery at Wellsville in 1868, and 
lias continued the same since. 



Sbcni)an /IDcBrtbur IHorton, though he 

has barely reached the prime of life, has already 
attained success in various lines of activity — as a 
teacher, lawyer, jjromoter, farmer, banker, and 
judge. His lineage will bear close scrutiny, and 
will lead the examiner back to Puritan stoi k. He 
was born in a country town in Allegany countv, 
New York, .shortly before the niiildle of the century, 
and spent his boyhood and youth under the harsh 
but wholesome discipline of farm life. His earlv 
education was obtained in the common schools, in 
Friendship .Academy, and in the Belmont graded 
school. At the age of seventeen he began to teach, 
and continued in that occupation during a great 
part of the time for the next seven years. Before he 
had reached his majority he was made president of 
the Allegany County Teachers' Association. 

He was fond of teaching, and would doubtless 
have been very successful in the profession, had he 
decided to make that his life-work. The law was 
attractive to him, however, and in 1871, simultane- 
ously with his teaching, he began to fit himself for 
the bar. He studied first at .\ngelica with Judge 
James S. CIreen and D. P. Richardson, afterward 
reading law at Belmont with Judge Hamilton Ward 
and (leneral Rufus Scott. He was admitted to 
the bar January 8, 1874, and began practice three 
weeks later at Friendshi]). 

He built up rapidly a valuable clientage, and 
obtained a wide reputation for adjusting disputes 
without litigation, and for winning his suit in con- 
tested cases. He acquired distinction, also, as a 
referee, and ever since his admission to the bar 
he has had an extensive business in hearing ref- 
erences. 

Judge Norton has shown great a])titucie for busi- 
ness, and has been strikingly successfid as a pro- 
moter of business enter|)rises. He has been presi- 
dent of the Citizens' National Bank of Friendship 
since it organization in 1882. He was interested 
in the first oil well at Richburg, .Allegany count\-, 
and devoted considerable attention to the develo])- 
ment of the oil industry. He showed rare good 
judgment in withdrawing from his operations at an 
opportune time. He had an active ]jart in the con- 
struction of the railroad from Friendshi|i to Holi\ar, 
holding a directorate in the company. As a prac- 
tical farmer conducting operations on a large scale, 
Judge Norton has likewise demonstrated his business 
ability. He owns a farm in Friendship of over 200 
acres, whi< h he personally superintends, and to 



MEN OF XKW VOKK—irKSTKR.y SKCr/0.\ 



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which he turns for relief from the exhausting labors 
of his |)rofession. 

Judge Norton has always taken great interest in the 
affairs of his town and county. For three years, begin- 
ning in 1X7!I, he was supervisor of Friendship, and 
wxs L'hainnan of the board ihiriiig the last two years 
of his service. For a number of year> 
he was a member of the board of educa- 
tion. He is an effective and entertain 
ing speaker, and is in great demand 
on Fourth of July and other |>atriotic 
occasions. 

In 1885), and again in |N!t."), he wa.> 
elected county judge, and has faithfull> 
discharged the duties of that office, and 
of the Surrogate's Court of the count) . 
His decisions are characterized by stri< t 
integrity and judicial fairness. His thor 
ough knowledge of the law was tested in 
the notable .Miner will case. This was 
carried to the Court of Appeals, whii h 
sustaineil Judge Norton's decision. In 
the tall of IXil.") he presided at Ceneseo 
for Judge Na.sh iluring the ficn ely con- 
tested Father l-'laherty ca.se, and won 
much aiipro\al lor his < ondni t nf the 
trial. 

Judge Norton takes a deep interest in 
Ma.sonry, in whi< h he has attained the 
.'!"Jd ilegrec. 

/'/■:RS0.\. IL CIIROXOLOG ) ' — 
Sheriitan AfiArtliiir Xorton was horn itl 
Rflmoiit, X. )'., .J/,/r /, lSi,li : was fiiii- 
calfii in l'iienihliif< Acadfrnx anii the Bf/- 
moni i^railfd sehool : laiii^ht school at inlfi- 
vals, 1SIU'>-7J ; ii>as ai/mit/fif lo Ihf bai 
/anuaiy ,1, /.V(-{, ii»i/ /'r^an pi ai- tier at 
/•'rifni/s/ii/>, \. )'. : marrinl J/l/r l.iliiiii 
Rolunson oj /•'rifm/s/ii/< Sf/itiin/'i-r I. l.SSn .- 
was su/>f)Tisor of Frifndsliif<, lSli!>Sl .■ lias bteii 
f<rfsiiifnt of the Citizens' Xaliona/ Rank of Friemi- 
sJiip si nee ISS^ : /las fieen eonntr /m/i^e anil surroj^ate 
of Alle^^any eoiinty since ISHO. 
••• 

XCWiS 5. paV'tC has been one of the fore- 
most < iti/cns 111 .\iagar.i county, New York, for 
more than half a century. Horn in the town of 
Riga, Monroe county, in l."<l!t, he obtaine<l suih 
instriu'tion as the imperfect common .schools of the 
time afforded, his |)arents feeling tmable to provide 
education at better schools away from home. 
Resolving, at the age of si.\teen, to start out for 
himself in the world, Lewis proceeded to 'I'ona- 
wanda, where an uncle lived, and there found 



employment as a general-utility l>oy in one of the 
variety stores so common in the country. His 
aptitude for business was marked even at this early 
day, and by the time he had reached his majority 
he was able to buy out his employers and ci)ndu< t 
the establishment on his own account. 




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Ceneral stores in the country, managed pnidently 
by men of character and weight in their <ommunity, 
have often become the liasis of sulistantial fortunes ; 
and Colonel Payne's career illustrates the general 
truth. Uranching out into one enterjirise and 
another as his means increased and experience 
broadened, he became long before the ]>erio<l of 
midflle life one of the most successfid business men 
in the county. Tonawauda had not then become 
the second greatest lumber market in the world, but 
its subseipient prominence in that industry was 
already foreshadowed : and Colonel I'ayne, with 
many others, foimd it profitable to engage in the 
business. In 1N47 he built the first steam sawmill 
in 'I'onawanda. He also engaged for .several years 



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in the forwarding, shipping, and commission busi- 
ness. In 1858 he turned his attention to farming, 
and has ever since maintained a large and beautiful 
estate in the town of Wheattield. 

When the Civil War broke out Colonel Payne 
was in the prime of vigorous manhood, and he threw 




LEWIS S. PAV.yE 

himself into the contest with the same persistence 
and energy that had brought him success in business 
life. Raising a company of volunteers at his own 
expense in the fall of 18G1, he ultimately reached 
McClellan's army, and took part in the famous 
Peninsular campaign. Knlisting as a private, he was 
promoted through the various grades until he 
reached the rank of lieutenant colonel. He par- 
ticipated in some of the hottest battles of the war, 
and in less than four months lost more than a third 
of his regiment. Williamsburg, Seven Pines, White 
Oak Swamp, and Malvern Hill were the scenes of 
some of his earlier battles. In the spring of IHfi."} 
he made many daring expeditions with his company, 
particularly distinguishing himself by able and suc- 



cessful operations in Charleston harbor. In .\ugust, 
I860, while attempting to intercept the communi- 
cations of the enemy between Charleston and Fort 
Sumter, he was attacked by a superior force, and 
after a desperate engagement was wounded and 
taken [irisoner. Confined for a while in the hospital 
at Charleston, he was afterward taken 
to Columbia, S. C, where he was kept 
in close confinement until February, 
1865. 
I With such a record in war and in the 

' mercantile world, Colonel Payne has 
naturally been prominent in public life. 
Originally a Whig, he became, after the 
dissolution of that party, a Douglas Dem- 
ocrat. As early as 1844 he was elected 
one of the supervisors of Wheatfield, and 
served on the board for eleven terms. 
He was the first collector of canal tolls 
appointed at Tonawanda, holding the 
office in 1850-51. Fleeted clerk of 
Niagara county in the fall of 1851, he 
discharged the duties of the office effi- 
ciently and faithfully during the years 
1852-54. Fleven years later he was 
again made county clerk, and held the 
office for the term 18()()-fi8. In the fall 
of I'SC!) he was elected to the state 
a.ssembly. He was made chairman of 
the committee on claims in that body, 
and was also a member of the committee 
on canals, and of that on military affairs. 
In November, 1877, he received the 
Democratic nomination for the office of 
senator from the 2Hth district. This 
district ordinarily went Republican by 
about 2000 votes, but on this occasion 
Colonel Payne was elected by a narrow 
margin. He was the first Democrat ever 
elected in the 29th senatorial district. In 1883 he 
was nominated for congress, but even his great 
popularity was uPiecjual to the task of overcoming 
the usual Republican majority. 

In recent years Colonel Payne has withdrawn 
from active pursuits, confining his attention to the 
oversight of his farm and the maintenance of his 
jiroperty. His memory has become somewhat 
uncertain with advancing age, but in most respects 
his seventy-eight years rest lightly upon him. His 
knowledge of pioneer conditions in western New 
York, his stirring experiences in the Civil War, and 
other eventfiil periods of his career, give unusual 
charm and interest to his reminiscent talks. He 
is widelv rosijected in Niagara count\', and holds a 



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339 



warm place in the regard of those who know him 
best. Everyone wishes him a twilight of life as 
long and as lovely as the fading of day in midsum- 
mer on the peaks of Ben Nevis. 

/-■ E R S O NA L Cn RO X 01.0 G Y— Lnois 
Stephen Payne was horn at Ri\'a, A'. W, January 
•21, 181f) ; was educaleJ in common si hoots ; was 
ilerk in a country store, IS-i'i-J^O ; married Afary 
Tailor of Ithaca, N. Y. , AWemfier J J, ISJ^O : seiTc.t 
in the Union army throui^hoiit the %var : 7oas elected a 
member of the Niagara-county hoard of siipen'isors in 
JS44, and serred elnen terms : 7i'as clerk of Niagara 
county, lS.'>2-'>Jf and J80'0'-tiS : was member of 
assembly in 1S70, state senator, lS7S-7f), and candi- 
date for congress in 1S8H ; has been engaged in vari- 
ous mercantile enterprises at .North Tonawanda. N Y . 
since 181,1. 

tUlUiam Id. iPrOUC'tlt lias l.een 
identified with the city of Jamestown for 
more than half a century, and may almost 
l)e regarded as a naii\e of the [dace. 
He was horn, however, in Milwaukee, 
Wis., and was two years old when he 
was lirought to western New York. He 
received his education in the Jamestown 
common schools ami academy, Imt left 
school at the age of fifteen to hegin busi- 
ness life. His first employment was that 
of clerk ill a dry -goods store, and he 
siihseiiuently served as cashier and finall\ 
as bookkeeper in dry -goods and c lothing 
stores in Jamestown. Hy the >ear IXti'i 
he had made a good start on a successful 
mercantile career : but he interrupted it, 
like -so many other men in those fateful 
years, at the call of his country. Kniist 
ing in conijiany !•', 112th New York vol- 
unteers, in .\ugust, INli'J, he .served until 
the close of the war, and was hoiiorabl) 
ilis(harged June 1.'!, iHli."). 

Returning to Jamestown, he established 
the clothing house of Proudfit & Osmer 
in December. IHlWi, buying out the firm 
of .-Vndrews vV I'reston. He has con 
ducted this biisine.ss at the original loca 
tion ever since, and has become one of 
the foremost merchants of Jamestown. 
Mr. Osmer died in IHHO, anil from that 
date Mr. I'rouilfit has been sole owner of the business, 
devoting his best energies to the enterprise, and 
achieving most gratifying and well-deservetl succes.s. 

.Ml public movements for the general good ha\e 
received Mr. I'roiidfit's active supjKirt. He is a 



Republican in politics, and Uikes a proper interest 
in i>arty affairs ; but he has no aspirations for public 
office, and has never accepted a jKilitical nomina- 
tion. He is deeply interested in the growth and 
lirosperity of the c ity that has been his home for so 
many vears, and in its benevolent and > haritable 
work. He is an elder in the First Presbyterian 
Church there; and took a ])rominent i>art in the 
organi/ation of the local Young .Men's Christian 
.\s.so( iation, serving on its first board of directors. 
When the James I'rendergasl Free Library was 
established in Jamestown, as a memorial of the man 
to whom the <ity owes its name, .Mr. I'roiidfit was 
appointed one of the first trustees of the institution. 
He is also a trustee of the (."emeter) .Xssoc iation, a 
number anil trustee of the (Jmntl .Vrmy of the 




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Republic , and a director of the Chautaiuina County 
Trust Co. 

P F. R S O N.-l /. C/lRONOLOa Y—ll illiam 
Henry /'roudfit tfas horn at Milwaukee, Wis., Decem- 
ber /.■>, 1S>,I: leas educated in the common school- 



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and academy of Jamesiinon, N. Y. ; was employed 
as clerk and bookkeeper in Jamestown, 1856-62; 
served in the Union army, 18(12-65 ; married Ellen 
E. Hall of Jamestoti'n October 2, 1866 : Aas con- 
ducted a clothing house in Jamestoivn since 1866. 




IIAI<\I:Y S. SI'EXCER 

IbarVCV S. SpeUCCr, one of the best-known 
and most respected citizens of the village of Ham- 
burg, was born in Lewis county, New York, fifty- 
seven years ago. His father, Stejihen S|)encer, was 
a farmer, and Harvey passed his early years after the 
usual manner of farmers' sons. As a boy he at- 
tended the district school in 'i'urin, his native town. 
He continued his education at the academy at Low- 
ville, the county seat, and at the Fairfield Academy 
in the neighboring county of Herkimer, finally com- 
l)leting his scholastic training at Whitestown Sem- 
inary, Oneida county. Like so many country boys, 
he was compelled to make persistent efforts and many 
sacrifices in order to obtain an academic education, 
and he availed himself with corresponding eagerness 
of all the opportunities that came within his reach. 



Having qualified himself for teaching, Mr. Spencer 
gave several years to that work in various places in 
Lew-is and Oneida counties. He had no mind to 
make this his life-work, however, and in 1865 he 
moved to western New York, and took up his resi- 
dence in Hamburg, Erie county, where 
he established an insurance agency. This 
business he carried on continuously for 
over twenty years, writing both fire and 
life insurance, and representing many of 
the leading companies of the countrv. 
In LS83 he helped to organize the Bank 
of Hamburg, and w-as made cashier of 
the new institution. He has filled this 
position ever since, and has proved him- 
self an able and efficient official, serving 
the ]jatrons of the bank with uniform 
courtesy, and guarding their interests 
most faithfullv. 

Mr. Spencer has identified himself 
thoroughly with the pretty village where 
he has lived so long, and every worthy 
enterprise designed to promote its growth 
and add to its luisiness facilities has 
received his hearty co-operation and 
support. He has taken an active part in 
the organization of several local corpora- 
tions of this kind, notably the Hamburg 
Canning Co., the Hamburg Water & 
I'.lectric Light Co., and the Hamburg 
Investment & Improvement Co., and is 
a stockholder in each. He is also secre- 
tary and treasurer of the two last-named 
(■or[)orations. His fellow-citizens appre- 
ciate his public spirit, and gave unmis- 
takable evidence of the fact by electing 
him to the office of supervisor when he 
was nominated by the Republican [jartv 
The peculiar significance of this election 
lies in the circumstance that Mr. Spencer is the 
only Rejniblican who has won the office upon party 
issues in the history of the town. 

Mr. Sjjcncer takes the prominent part in the social 
life of Hamburg to which his high standing in busi- 
ness circles naturally entitles him. For many years 
he has been a member of Fraternal Lodge, No. 625, 
1'". & .\. M., and served several terms as Worshipfiil 
Master, lie belongs, also, to the Royal Arcanum 
Council, the local lodge of Odd Fellows, and to the 
.\ncient Order of United Workmen. He is at 
present a director of the Masonic Life .Xssociation 
of Western New York. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL OGY— Haney S. 
Spencer fcas born at Turin, N'. ) '. , July 15, 1839 ; 



in 1881. 



MF..\ or XKir VONK—U'ESTEKX SECT/OX 



:ui 



7c<as fdiUiiteil iil LmiwilU and FairfiflJ luailnnies and 
Wliitesloum Seminary ,• lauglil school, ISUS-l!.') ; 
fstablished an insurancf ai^fncx at Hamlui'x, X. )'. , 
/// ISO.') : married /ii/iii .-/. Buntini; of Eden, X. )'. , 
October IJ, 1S70 : was a member of the Erie-county 
board of supeiTisors, 18S 1-NJ ; has been cashier of 
the Bank of Hambtirir since its organization in ISSS. 

J^£^\var^ 315. UrOClauD occupies a promincnl 
l)Osition in the town ami county of his residence — a 
position that he has attained by force of native 
ability and elements of personal popularity. He 
was horn in L'ulia, Allegany lounty, N. V., in 
December, 18.")7. He received his eilucation in the 
piiblii schools of his native town, and in Friendship 
Academy, from which he graduated in lH7(i. He 
then became a resident of Salamanca. N. \'., and 
for a perioti of five years was prim i|>;d of 
the Salamanca |)ubli( schools. He was 
a successful educator, and made an envi- 
able record as a disciplinarian and in- 
structor. 

While teaihing, Mr. \'reeland was also 
studying law, ami he was idtimately ad- 
mitted to practice in the courts of the 
state ; but his tastes ran more to busi- 
ness than to the routine of legal practice, 
and he never engaged actively in his 
profession. In 1XX2 he opened an insur- 
ance office in Salamanca, and his skillful 
management and upright dealings con- 
verted the enter|irise inti> a large and 
successful business. He is still con 
nected with the agency. In 1X!)1 he 
was elected president of the Salamanca 
National Bank, antl yet holds the jiosi 
tion. 

Ever since early manhood .\lr. \'ree 
land has taken an active interest in 
political alTairs. He is a vigorous anil 
entertaining speaker, and his oratorical 
services are sought not only for camjxiign 
work, but al.so on social occasions. Be- 
lieving heartily in the principles of the 
Republican |iarty, he has done much, on 
the stump and otherwise, to e.vplain and 
|)Opidarixe those princijiles. He is thor- 
oughly informed on <|uestions of the day. 
He was elected supcrvi.sor of Salamanca 
in 1H!I;{, and still represents his town on 
the county board. He is regarded as one of the 
most efficient members of that body. He has been 
|)resident of the Salamam a Board of Trade for five 
years, and in that cajiat ity has promoted the mate- 



rial interests of the community in various ways. He 
was {xwtmaster of Salamanca during President Harri 
son's administration. 

Mr. X'reeland has devoted himself princi)>ally to 
business, and has been eminently successful in that 
regard. He has e.xcellent judgment, is conservative 
in his methods of thought and action, and has en- 
joyed in a marked degree the confidence and respect 
of his fellow-i iti/ens. He is now in the prime 
of vigorous manhood, and it is the conl'ident l»elief 
of his many friends that the future has in store for 
him a degree of sm cess even higher than that 
already attained. 

.Mr. N'reelaml has been interested in Masonry for 
many years, and has reaihetl a high rank in that 
order. He was the first Kminent Commander of 
.Salamanca Commaiulerv, No. (i2, K. 'I'. 




rinvAkn n. \Ki:iii.Asn 

PERSOXAL CIIROXOLOCV—Edivard But- 
tcr/icfd I'ree/and leas born at Cuba, X. )'. , December 
7, IS.'iT : was educated in common schools and FrienJ- 
shifi Academy : 7(<as f>rincif<al of the Salamanca { X. Y. i 



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public schools, 1877-82; studied Imv, and loas ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1881 ; married Myra S. Price 
of Friends/up, N. V., July 27, 1881; established an 
insurance agency in Salamanca in 1882 ; 7i<as postmas- 
ter of Salamanca, 1889-93 : has been supervisor of 




DAlll^ J. w/i.rox 

the town of Salamanca since 1893 ; has been president 
of the Salamanca A^ational Bank since 1891. 



E>aV>i5 3. Xl'GlilCOI, lil^^-- so many other successful 
sons of the ICmpirc State, is of New Kngland parent- 
age, his ancestors having been among the early set- 
tlers of Vermont. His father, Klihu Wilcox, left the 
(Ireen Mountain State more than half a century ago, 
and became one of the pioneers of Cattaraugus county. 
New York. Born at Leon in that county, shortly 
before the middle of the century, Mr. Wilcox spent 
his boyhood on his father's farm, attending common 
schools in winter and working hard the rest of 
the year. He was ambitious to go to college, but 
had to practice great self-denial to gain his end. 
By teaching school, however, and making sacrifices 



of various kinds, he managed to work his way along, 
taking preparatory courses at Chamberlain Institute 
and Fredonia Normal School, and attending Cornell 
University three years in the cla.ss of '77. 

Having decided to make the practice of law his 
life-work, Mr. Wilcox began his read- 
ing in the office of King & .Montgomery 
at Ithaca, N. Y., continued his study 
with Henderson & Wentworth at Ran- 
dolph, N. Y., and finished his legal edu- 
cation at the .-Mbany Law School. He 
graduated from this institution in 1878, 
and was admitted to the bar at Buffalo 
the same year. The lawyers with whom 
he studied were exceptionally able attor- 
neys, and in their offices he enjoyed an 
unusually good opportunity to acquire a 
thorough knowledge of legal forms and 
jirocedure. When this practical experi- 
ence had been supplemented by acourse of 
systematic study in a law school, he was 
excellently equipped for the attainment 
of honors in a keenly competitive calling. 
Moving to Springville, Lrie county, 
in No\ember, 1.S7X, Mr. Wilcox has fol- 
lowed his profession there continuously 
since. The practice of a country lawyer 
is likely to be varied, and to give one a 
wide knowledge of law, and of business 
and life in general. Mr. Wilcox has 
now received the benefit of such a calling 
for nearly twenty years, and he is natur- 
ally a lawyer of learning and ability. 
He has taken part in many important 
cases, besides transacting a large amount 
of routine legal business. In the famous 
controversy over the estate of David S. 
Ingalls, Mr. Wilcox was one of the coun- 
sel for the contestants, and had an important part 
in securing the compromise that ended the struggle. 
In political affairs Mr. Wilcox has always espoused 
the i)rinci|)les represented by the Democralii: partv. 
His first public position was that of clerk of the board 
of supervisors of Cattaraugus county, which he helil 
in 1S7."). .\ few years after taking u|) his residence 
in Springville he was elected to the state assembly, 
re|)resenting the southern district of I-^rie county in 
that body in 188.')-84. In 1888 he wa.s appointed 
by President Cleveland receiver of the L'nited 
States land office at Walla Walla, Wash., and spent 
the next two years in the Evergreen State. He then 
returned to New York, and filled the position of 
financial clerk of the state assembly in the years 
l.Hi)(M»l. 



AfF.X OF XKir VOKK—U'F.STERX SFCTIO.X 



34:? 



Mr. W'iliox has long l>een interested in the Ma- 
sonic order, belonging to Si)ringville l-odge, No. 
351, K. & .\. M. He i.s al.so an Odd Fellow. 

PERSOXA L CH ROXOI. O G Y — Davi.i 
James Wilcox iuas born at Leon, X. )'. , October 21 , 
ISIp : 7i'as eJucateii at preparatory schools ami Cor- 
nell University: graduated from the A/bany Law 
Schoo/, and was admitted to the bar in 187S : married 
Happie H. Sto^vell of East As/ford, X. )'.. August 
22, 1878 ; was clerk of the Cattaraugus-county board 
of supervisors in 187 -i, member of assembly, 188-i-84, 
and financial clerk of the assembly, 18f)0-fll .• has 
practiced lajo in Springville, X. Y., since 1878, with 
the exception of two years spent in Walla Walla, 
Hash., as receiver (f the United States land office. 

EiUHirt E. lUOOM^UrV, l'>r the past two 
years surrogate of C'hautaiii|ua rounty, 
has had a remarkably siicces-sful career 
for so young a man. Though only thirty- 
six years old, he has had a scat in the 
state legislature for three years, and has 
al.so won distinction in his chosen pro- 
fession. 

Born in the village ol ('herr\ Creek 
in IHtil, Mr. Woodlniry spent the first 
eleven years of his life there, attending 
district schools when he became old 
enough. .At the end of that time, his 
[>arents having died, he moved to Ran- 
dolph, Cattaraugus county, and there 
continued his education. He finished 
his schola.stic training with a three years' 
course at Chamberlain Institute, one of 
the best and most |)opular .schools in 
western New York. Having thus ac- 
i]uired as much education as his circum- 
stances permitted, Mr. Woodbury taught 
school for two winters, and worked as a 
farm hand for several years : but he had 
no mind to devote his life to either of 
these occui^ations, and in IHHO he began 
reading law with Rodney R. Crowley of 
Randoljjh. His legal studies were com- 
pleted in the office of lakin \- Sessions 
at Jamestown, and in the spring of 1H.S4 
he was admitted to the Imr. 

It is always a compliment to the 
ability and zeal of a young lawyer when 
those with whom he has studied are glad 
to retain his serxices, and to admit him into ])artner- 
ship when he begins ])ractice. Mr. Woodbury re- 
ceived this mark of confidence, and on July 1, 1><S4, 
the firm of I.;ikin, Sessions iV- Woo<lbury was organ- 



ized. This association was destined to be of short 
duration, as Judge I^kin, the senior [jartner, died 
before the expiration of the month. Messrs. Sessions 
and Woodbury continued to practice together until 
July 1, iSM."), when Mr. Woo<lbury formed, with 
(leorge R. Hutts, the finn of Woodbury & Butts. 
This connection lasted until the election of the 
senior member as a.s.semblyman in the fall of 1«{I0. 
For several years thereafter .\lr. Wooiibury pra< ticed 
alone; but in December, l«!t4, he as.sociated him- 
self with Klea/er Creen, at that time mayor of 
Jamestown, and since elected district attorney of 
Chantaui|ua county. The firm of Creen & Wood- 
bury still exi.sts, and naturally reieives mm h of the 
legal business of Jamestown and vicinity. 

Mr. Woodbury's political career extends over the 
last ten vears. On the oriiani/ation of lameslown 




i-i-.iirh' r I woonniKV 

as a city, in 1M«(J, he was elected one of its first 
justices of the i>eace, and sened for nearly four 
years, declining re-election at the end of that time. 
For three years, beginning in 18M}t, he was a member 



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.UE\ OF XEtV iORA— 11 y^S ■/■/■: AW SEcr/O.V 



of the Republican county committee, acting as its 
chairman in 1889, and as manager of the cam- 
paign in 1891. In the fall of 1890, when less than 
thirty years old, he was elected member of assembly 
from the 'id ("hantauqua-county district by a plural- 
itv of 1721, and his re-election in 1891 was effected 




HEXKY .-trT.\rA\ 

by a ])lurality of 26(j9. In 1»92, after the consoli- 
dation of the two Chautauqua districts, he was 
elected to represent the entire comity. He was 
jjrominently mentioned as a candidate for a fourth 
term ; but refused to allow his name to be used, 
feeling that he could no longer make the sacrifn e of 
liusiness interests that the office rei|uired. 

Mr. Woodbury's latest public service, of which lu- 
is justly proud, is the part he took in securing the 
nomination of Major McKinley for President. One 
of the first champions of this cause in western New 
York, he became a candidate for the office of dele- 
gate to the national convention at the earnest .solici- 
tation of the McKinley men of Chautauqua county. 
Though he was defeated by a few votes in the 



district convention, the strong fight made by him 
and other friends of the great protectionist resulted 
in the choice of a delegate from the 34th con- 
gressional district who went to St. Louis under 
|)Ositive instructions to support the candidacy of 
William McKinley. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY — 
Egbtirt E. Woodbury was born at Cherry 
Creek, Chautauqua county, N. V., March 
2!l, 1861 : attended district schools and 
Cliamherlain Institute, Randolph, N. Y. : 
married Florence E. Holbrook of Ran- 
dolph December 25, 1880 : studied law, 
and joas admitted to the bar in 188 Jf : was 
Justice of the peace, 1886-89, member of 
the Chautau(jua-county Republican com- 
mittee, 1889-91, and member of assembly, 
1891—93 ; has beeti sttrrogate of Chautau- 
qua county since January 1, 1895 : has 
practiced la'iV in Jamestoicn since 188 Jf. 



1benr\? HltmaU is an excellent e.x- 
ample of the .American business man, 
who, in conducting large private affairs, 
finds inclination and leisure to interest 
himself also in politics and all worthv 
enterprises. .Mthough he has not often 
held public office, nor been officialh' 
connected with party management, he 
has alwa\s been regarded in Hulialo a> 
one of the stanches! and most influen- 
tial Rc])nbli(ans in the citx . When 
anv pui)lic enterprise has to be carried 
through, he is one of the first men called 
upon to help in the movement. He has 
die abilitx of interesting other men in 
whatever inlercsls himself 

Mr. .Mtinan has been a Huflalonian 
virluall) all Ids life, although he was 
born in Rochester, and spent his first two years 
there. He is the yoimgest son of Jacob .\ltman, 
who settled in Huffido in 1<S.")4, establishing the 
clothing house of Altman iv Co., still existent. 
Henry .Altman was educated in the liuftalo jiublic 
schools and the Buffalo .\cademy, and graduated 
from Cornell L'niversity in the class of IST.'l, with 
die degree of Bachelor of Science. Upon his return 
home from college he entered business life as a 
member of the firm of .Mtman i.V Co., and i|uickly 
developed into an able and successful man of affairs. 
.Mr. .Altman is a good citizen, as well as a good 
business man, and has always taken a deep, unselfish 
interest in public affairs. He has been a leader in 
various movements designed to promote the welfare 



.\fi:\ ('/■ \/:h- i(>A'A—ii'/-:s7/i/f\ s/:ct/ik\ 



M.' 



of Buffalo. When an effort was made there to ohtnin 
one or l>oth of the jjreat national political < onven- 
tions of 1><!I(J, Mr. .\linian wa.s one of the com- 
mittee of Kepultlicans appointed by the mayor to 
work in the interest of the city : and the Republi- 
cans and Democrats together chose him as chairman 
of the lommittee of one hundred representative lit- 
izens that had in i harge the official pro.secution of 
the matter. Such offices as this come naturally to 
Mr. Altman hecau.se it is felt that they ( onld not he 
in safer or more alile hands. 

When, under the new i harler, a lioard of .s< hool 
examiners was created in liiiffalo, one of the five 
members of the first board, appointed in February, 
lH!t2, was Mr. .Mtman. The position was an im- 
portant one. He pro\etl himself a conscientious 
and highly ca|«lile <>tfi< er, and was reai)pointe<l ; 
anil at the reorganization of the board 
in 1S!M> he was chosen its chairman. 

.Mr. .Mtman has been prominent for 
vears in the counsels of the Kepublitan 
[Kirty in Buffalo, and has served as presi- 
dent of the HutTalo Republican League. 
He has been <onne<ted with many of 
the public and social institutions of the 
I ity. He has served for twenty-one 
terms as trustee of the HuflTalo Library. 
He is president of the local Alumni .\s.so- 
ciation of (."ornell I'niversity, and ever 
since his graduation has been president 
of the {"ornell class of l«7-"{. He is a 
.■?2d degree Ma.son, and has held posi- 
tions of honor in various lodges, a.ssocia- 
tions, and clubs. 

I'ERSOXAL L HK OXOL OG ) ' — 
Hfiirx Altman was born al Rocltfstfi 
August li, ISiii : nunrJ to Buffalo in 
ISM, anil attfndeil the f>ubli( schools 
there : grailuateJ from Cornell L'mversitx 
in lS7-i : married Afrs. Sadie Strauss 
Rayner of Baltimore, Afd., at London, 
F.ng., July Jf, 1881 ; has been engaged in 
the clothing business in Buffalo since J87-1. 
— •*• — 

llxMlUl IXX. Cole, who has prac 
ti< ed law in Buffalo siiKe \M'.\, was well 
known in both legal and |X)litical circles 
in Schuyler county before he look u|) 
his residence in the (Jueen City of the 
lakes. He was l)orn in Seneca county 
in lS")i(, and received his early education in the dis- 
trict schools of his native town of Covert. When 
he had exhausted their limited resources he liecame 
a student at the Larmer \"illage Cnion Sihool near 



by, and finally completed his general education at 
Cook's .-Vcademy, Havana. N. \'., shortly before 
attaining his majoritx. 

.Mr. Cole had determined to become a lawyer, 
and for that )iur|>ose betook him.self to Watkins, the 
county seat of Schuyler county, where his brother 
was already establisheil in that profession. This was 
early in the spring of \HH{). j-'or somewhat more 
than two years he read law at Watkins, an<i then 
finished his professional studies by a year at the 
.Mbany Ijw School, graduating in .May, \HH:\, with 
the degree of 1.1.. B. He had been admitted to the 
bar earlier in the year. Returning to Watkins in 
September, \XKi, he forme<l a |iartnership with his 
brother, Fremont Cole, under the name of Cole 
Brothers. This style lasted until januarx , \HH\t, 
when !•'.. (). Bolven was admitted to the I'lrin, whi( h 




iki /\<; II I oi h 



then became known as I ole, t ole \ BuUen. In the 
fall of 1«!M( Fremont Cole withdrew from the firm, 
but Irving W. Cole and Mr. IJolyen continued to 
practice together until January 1. IXiCJ. .\t that 



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MEX OF XEir )(^A'A-—irESrE/i.y SEC/VOX 



time Mr. Cole formed a ])artnershi|) with a younger 
brother, Elbert Cole, that lasted about two years. 

Circumstances combined to give Mr. Cole an un- 
usual amount of professional experience during his 
ten years' practice in M'atkins. During the greater 
part of their professional a.ssociation his brother. 




WA/.THK /) CREKX/-: 

Fremont Cole, was in the legislature, and thus much 
of the work of the firm fell upon the younger 
brother. Later, his partner Mr. Bolyen was elected 
district attorney, and for the next few years Mr. 
Cole took an important jjart in the prosecution of 
the principal criminal trials in Schuyler county. 
Thus well e(|uipped with experience, he determined 
to seek a wider field for the exercise of his talents, 
and in the fall of 1893 he moved to Buffalo. I'or a 
short time he jiracticed alone, but on May 1, 1H94, 
formed his present |)artnership with K. J. I'lumley, 
under the firm name of Plumley & Cole. 

Since taking up his residence in Buffalo Mr. Cole 
has confined his attention exclusively to his ])rofes- 
sion, feeling that at such a time the most import.int 



thing was to win the place at the Krie-couut\ liar to 
which his attainments elsewhere entitled him. He 
took an active part for many years, however, in 
political affairs in Schuyler county, and it would not 
be surprising if he should soon find opportunity to 
employ his talents in this direction in his new home. 
During his law-student days in Watkins 
he held the position of clerk of the Sur- 
rogate's Court, and for the last two years 
of his residence there he was the chair- 
man of the Republican county commit- 
tee. He also did good service for his 
|)arty as the writer of the political edi- 
torials for one of the local papers during 
two years. Mr. Cole's interest in party 
affairs was stimulated, no doubt, by his 
brother's noteworthy public career : Fre- 
mont Cole represented his district in the 
assembly for five consecutive years, and 
was the speaker of that liodv for two 
years. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY — 
IiTiitif JF. Cole 7t'c7s horn at Covert, 
N. Y., September 21, 1859.- attended 
public schools and Cook's Academy, Ha- 
'••ana, N. Y. ; zoas admitted to the bar in 
1HS4 : practiced la70 in M'atkins, N. Y., 
IHHS-9S ; 7i'as chairman of the Schiivler- 
coiinty Republican committee, 1S92-9S ; 
married Mrs. Nelle E. Lnghatn of Elmira, 
N. Y. , June 27, 1893 ; has practiced law 
in Buffalo since 1893. 



Malter S), ©reene, prominent in 
Buffalo alike in professional, public, and 
private life, is a native of the Green 
.Mountain State. His ancestors came 
from England in early colonial times, 
and settled in Boston. Later they jour- 
neyed into the wilderness of Vermont ; and there, 
in the town of Starksboro, Walter was born forty- 
odd years ago. His early education was received 
in the district schools of his native town, and he 
then took a course of study in the academy at l^nion 
Springs, N. Y., from which he graduated in IJSTl. 

Betaking himself to Buffalo at the close of his 
prejwratory studies. Dr. (Ireene matriculated in the 
medical de]jartnient of the University of Buffalo, 
and received his |)rofessional degree from that insti- 
tution in 1M7(>. He spent the next two years in 
the Rochester City Hospital, serving first as junior 
assistant physician, and afterwards in the more 
resjjonsible i)Ost of house physician, in the latter 
]H)sition he had an excellent |iractical school for the 



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application of the knowledge previoii.sly acquired : 
anil he was thus uniisiially well <iualificil, when he left 
the hospital, to begin private practice. This he did, 
in 1M7H, at Mendon, Monroe county, New York. 

The opportunities for usefulness and for jirofes- 
sional success in a country town are necessarily 
limited, and in 1«M(I Dr. Oreene sought a more 
extended field. .\c<ordingly, he moved to HufTalo, 
where he has since conducted a general medi- 
cal and surgical |)ractice ; and in this he has heen 
markedly successful, attaining the high rank to 
which his talents and profe.ssional skill entitle him. 

Buffalo has benefited largely by Ur. dreene's sound 
learning and jiractical common sense, in his long 
connection with the health dei>artment of the city. 
In 1SS2, soon after his arrival there, he was ap- 
pointed district physician in this department, and 
served most act eptably for seven years. 

.\t the end of that time he was appointed ■ 

health |)hysician of the city, and for two 
years filled this responsible ]X)sition with 
cretlit to himself and with profit to his ! 
fellow-citizens. In December, IHJIti, 
Dr. Wende, on his reappointment as 
health commissioner of Buffalo for the 
five years 1X!(7-1!MII, at once made Dr. | 
(Ireene his deputy. In this highly de- i 
sired and most responsible post Dr. ' 
(Ireene will doubtle.ss atld to his prestige 
as a physician and executive officer. 

Dr. (Ireene is a member of all the 
local and state medical societies, and 
since 1X512 he has held the iirofessorship 
of hygiene in the medical department ol 
Niagara University. He is prominent in 
.Masonic circles, having taken the .'J'Jd 
degree in the .\ncient .Ax epted Scottish 
Rite. He al.so ha.s membershij) in ihc 
.Vcacia flub, and is a director in the 
.Ma.sonic Library .\s.sociation of Western 
New York. He is well known and mu( h 
liked in .social life. He is a member of 
the Buffalo Club. 

PERSOXAL CHROXOI.OG ) ' — 
Willi fr Diivid Greene was horn at Stark s- 
Iwro, I 'f. , Af>ril JO, ISo-i : 7c'as ei/uiateit 
in district schools and Union Sf<rin)^s 
( N. Y. ) Acaiiemw and graduated from 
the medical department of the L 'niversity of 
Ihiffalo in l,Sll! : senrd on the staff of the 
Rochester City Hosf>ital, 1S7(j-iS ; married Afary 
/■:. Piirsel of Buffalo XWemher JH, 1H7S : practiced 
medicine in Afendon, X. Y. , 1S7S~S0 ; was district 
physician in Ihc health department of Buffalo, ISSJ- 



S.'t, and health physician of the city, 18S!f-!il : has 
practiced medicine in Buffalo since 18SU ; has heen 
deputy health commissioner of Buffalo since /anuary 
I, ISUl. 

Samuel /IDcC»Cl•al^, widely known in west 
em New York for many years in the ministry and 
in journalisni, was born in founty .-Xntrim, Ireland, 
in 1«.">;5. He came to this country early in life, and 
at the age of sixteen began a systematic course of 
instruction at (lenesec Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, 
.N. \'. He devoted the next seven years to a 
thorough pre|)aration for the ministrx , completing 
his .M holastic ediuation in his twenty fourth year at 
the Rochester Collegiate Institute. 

In .\ugust, 1X")(!, Dr. Mctlerald entered the 
ministry of the Methodist Kpisro|)3l (hiirch, and 




stun I Mciu-K ti.i> 



wxs stationed at Conesiis, Livingston county, N. Y. 
.After serving the usual term in that place he had 
l>astorates successively at Bath, \Vars;(w, Medina, 
.Albion, Tonawanda, and Buffalo. It w.xs ap|»rent 



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soon after Dr. Mc(jerald entered the ministry that 
he had chosen a vocation admirably suited to his 
talents and temperament : and his work in all the 
places mentioned was exceptionally fruitful of good. 
While he was pastor of the Riverside Church in 
Buffalo the society's debt of 816,000 was lii|uidated. 




.■u.f..\a\iu:r Ah. \f. I. ST/-: A' 

He has been twice elected a delegate to the Oeneral 
Conference of the Methodist Kpi.scopal church, 
attending the conference held in New York in llS.SX 
and that in Omaha in 1X!)2. In 1898 his ability 
and services were fittingly recognized by Nebraska 
University, which conferred upon him the degree 
of Doctor of Divinity. 

For the last decade or more Dr. McCerald has 
given most of his time to certain ])ubli(ations 
intimately connected with the religious world. By 
no means lacking in the (|ualities always desired 
and frequently found in ministers of the gos])el, he 
has in addition to these a practical bent of mind 
that helped him materially as a jjastor, and has been 
indis])ensable in his later career as an editor and 



publisher. .\p])ointed by the Genesee Conference 
in 1885 to edit the Buffalo Cluistiati Advocate, Dr. 
McCerald found the work .so much to his liking that 
he purchased the paper, and has since conducted 
the same on his own account. His son Arthur is 
business manager of the enterprise. The pa])er is 
now called the Christian Uplook. Dr. 
.McClerald also edits and publishes the 
monthly organ of the Royal i'emplars of 
Temperance. He is profoundly inter- 
ested in the work of this society, and has 
conducted its journal with much success. 
Dr. McGerald was one of the original 
" Chautauquans " in 1874, belie\ing 
heartily in the movement, and has ever 
since actively supported the cause. He 
taught normal classes in the summer 
school at Chautauqua under Dr. John H. 
Vincent, and for twelve seasons delivered 
a course of lectures there on Palestine 
and Jerusalem. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY — 
Samuel McGerald was born in County 
Antrim, Ireland, June 20, 1833 ; was 
educated at Genesee IVeslexan Seminary, 
Lima, N. V., and Rochester Collegiate 
Institute ; married Eunice Ada Durand 
of Canandaigua, N. Y. , August 19, ISiiS : 
entered the ministry in ISoO, and held 
Tariflus pastorates in New York state until 
1S85 ; was a delegate to the General Con- 
ference of the Methodist Episcopal church 
in 1S88 and 1892; has been editor and 
oioner of the Buffalo ' ' Christian Advo- 
cate, ' ' now the ' ' Christian Uplook, ' ' since 
lS8o. 

aiciau&er /IDc/IDastci Ha.-, lived 

long enough in Buffalo to be reckoned 
among the "old residents," but the first twent\- 
years of his life were spent in Canada. Born in the 
village of Fort Krie, Ont., in the early '40's, as a 
child he could look across the broad Niagara to the 
city that was later to be his home — a thriving place 
of nearly 30,000 souls then, though very different 
from the modern metropolis. Afterward, while still 
a lail, he moved to Brantford, Ont., and completed 
his education in the public schools of that place. 

The natural bent of his mind led him to a jjrac - 
tical calling, and at the age of sixteen he became an 
a|jprcntice to the machinist's trade in the W'aterous 
JMigine Works at Brantford. .\fter a long and 
thorough ]jreparation there Mr. McMaster moved to 
Buffalo in 18(i'i, and quickly obtained emjjloyment 



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with the King Iron Works of that city. He re 
inained with this concern ten years, re<eiving pro 
motions from time to time, and fmally reaching a 
|X>sition of considcral)le im|)ortance. In 1«7"J, 
however, he received an a|i|)uintnient as ihief 
engineer of the L'omnien iai line of steamers, and 
gladly availed himself of the increased o|>|)ortinii- 
ties that the greater res|)onsil)ilities of the position 
brought to him. During the next decade he liecame 
widely known in his profession, and established a 
reputation as a practical engineer of great ability. 

In 1883 Mr. McMaster severed his connection 
with the Commercial Line, and accepted an aji 
pointment as I'nited States local inspei tor of boilers 
for the district of Buffalo. He tlischarged the duties 
of this office ably and efficiently, and in l«Kil I'resi- 
dent Harrison appointed him I'nited States sujier- 
vising ins|)ector of steam vessels for the 
!lth district. This position he held 
throughout Harrison's administration, 
and until lH!t4. 

During the thirty-odd years of his resi 
ilence in Buffalo Mr. McMaster h<as taken 
considerable interest in public affairs. 
In 1879 he was elected alderman from 
what is now the '20th ward, and served 
in that caiacity for eight consecutive 
years. He has al.so been a< live in vari- 
ous financial enterprises, and since lH!i;i 
has been vice president of the I'nion 
Bank of Buffalo. He is a Mason and a 
member of the Acacia Club, and attends 
the I'resbvterian church. 

PEJiSOXAL CHROXOL OG ) • — 
Alexander McMaster 7oas born at Fori 
Erie, On'., Octoher 10, ISJ^J : nuis e./ii 
(ateJ in puhlic schools : learneJ the m<i 
fhinist' s trai/e at Brantford, Onl., IS'iS- 
02 : married Malinda Cri/>/>s of Buffalo 
May -i, ISO J .■ was in the employ of the 
Kin^ Iron Works, Buffalo, tSO'J-72, and 
of the Commerdal line of steamers, JS7J- 
S-i ; was appointed Unite:! States local in 
spector of boilers in l,SS-i, and United 
States supen'isin^ inspector of steam vessels 
in ISS.'t : has been 7'ice president of the 
Union n.ink. fhiffalo, since ISfl.t. 

XC\V15 StOChtOU, well known at 
the bar of Buffalo and in the so* iai worlil 
of the (.^)ueen City, is descended from the old New 
Jersey Stockton family, famous in our history from 
colonial and revolutionary times. His father was 
the late Rev. \V. K. Stockton. D D Born in 



.Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, while the Civil 
War was still raging, Mr. Stoikton obtained his early 
education in the public .schools, and higher instruc- 
tion at I'rsinus College, Collegeville, I'enn. This 
institution was anibitiously named, but Mr. Stockton 
regarded his work there as prep:iratory only. Knter- 
ing l.ehigh Iniversiiy, South Bethlehem, Benn., in 
the fall of IN"", he received there, in 1N><1, the 
ilegree of .\. B,, graduating at the age of nineteen 
as valedit lorian of his i lass. .Mr. Stockton's rank 
as a .scholar is sufficiently evident in the foregoing 
statement. His general standing with the college 
authorities is further attested by his a]ipointment as 
instruc tor in South Bethlehem. 

\\ hile teaching in the charming college town for 
the next two years .Mr. Stockton was looking for- 
ward to permanent professional work at the bar, and 




IHWIS STOCKTOX 

was pre|>aring himself therefor by reading law under 
the guiilance of CJeneral W . V.. Doster, a prominent 
attorney of the Keystone State. .At the (lose of the 
college vear in iss.'! he took up his residence in 



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Buffalo, and entered the office of Bissell, Sicard & 
(loodyear for further legal training. Devoting all his 
time now to the mastery of law, he made ra])i(l prog- 
ress, and was admitted to the bar in June, IM.S.'). 
After rounding out his legal knowledge with fifteen 
months' additional observation of and participation 
in actual practice with the firm of Kissell, Sicard iV 
tioodyear, he set up an office of his own in Septem- 
ber, 188(). In the decade since elapsed he has 
made a reputation as a painstaking and trustworthy 
adviser in legal affairs. He has had some important 
contested cases, but he is a discourager of litiganc\ , 
and his practice has resolved itself largely into office 
consultation and research. He has never felt it 
necessary or advi.sable to form a partnership for the 
practice of law. 

Without holding imblic office or receiving polit- 
ical nominations, IMr. Stockton has still concerned 
himself actively with public affairs. A firm believer 
in the wisdom of a liberalized tariff, and profoundly 
impressed with the need of sound money, he has 
exerted himself zealously in the presidential cam- 
paigns concerned with those subjects. He has de- 
livered numerous speeches, contributed articles to 
the press, and otherwise made himself a factor in 
the campaigns of recent years. In local affairs, like- 
wise, he has taken critical interest in the principles 
and practice of municipal government, allying him- 
self with the Cood Crovernment clubs. Civil Service 
Reform .Association, and Municipal Ownership 
League. He was formerly vice president of the 
Cleveland Democracy. If all good citizens followed 
public affairs as Mr. Stockton does, the professional 
politician would lose his occupation, and many of 
the faults deemed inherent in popular government 
would be no more. 

Having been one of the prime movers in the or- 
ganization of the University Club of Buffalo, Mr. 
Stockton has taken great interest in the welfare of 
the institution ever since its formation in the s]jring 
of IX!)"). He is chairman of its committee on 
literature and art, and in that capacity devotes nuich 
time and thought to the extension and enri( hment 
of the club library. The result is apparent to all 
members who frequent the delightful literary corner 
of the clubhouse. Mr. Stockton is also a member 
of the University CMub of New York ( ity. 

Mr. Stockton has taken a prominent part for 
several years in the councils of the P^piscopal churc ii 
in the diocese of Western New York ; and he rep- 
resented the diocese at the Minneajwlis Ceneral 
Convention of lX9o. He helped to organize the 
Laymen's l.eague, and became one of the officers 
of the institution. This body of active laymen 



works directly under the bi.shop, and is the channel 
through which a good deal of practical philanthropy 
becomes beneficentlv effective. 

PERSONAL CHROXO LOGY— Lewis Stock- 
ton was born at F.vansburg, Penn. , March 12, 1862 ; 
i^raduated from Lehigh University in 1881, and taui^ht 
at South Bethleliem, Penn. , 1881-8S : 7eias admitted 
to the Biifalo har in 188i> : married FJoise Gilbert of 
Glencoe, Md. , April ■'> , 1S8'> : has practiced law in 
Buffalo since lN8(i. 

• •• 

GeOl'tje IbOWarD UbOintOU, known through- 
out the Empire State as an e.xpert stenographer, 
was born in Watertown, N. Y., in ISaL He re- 
ceived an excellent education early in life, attend- 
ing the common schools, Jefferson County Institute, 
and the U'atertown High School. Ha\ing thus ob- 
tained a thorough preparation for college, he en- 
tered Rochester University in 1868, and graduated 
therefrom four years later. In 1882 he received 
the higher degree of Master of Arts from his alma 
mater. He first became interested in stenograph)- 
when a .schoolboy, and learned the Curney system 
of shorthand at that time. Most experts in the 
subject agree that the Benn Pitman system of phonog- 
raphy is one of the very be.st, and Mr. Thornton 
thought it worth while to forget his earlier method 
and start in anew with the Hitman Manual. He did 
so, accordingly, while in college, and acciuired such 
proficiency in the new system that he was able to 
earn $2000 by court reporting in his senior year. 
He kept up his college studies all the time, more- 
over, passing creditably the periodical examinations. 
If college men of limited means only knew it, there 
is no better pecuniar)- resource for them than short- 
hand ; and there is the fiirther advantage that the 
fascinating art would help them greatly in their 
college work, and would be of periietual assistance in 
after life. 

In August, 1872, Mr. Thornton moved to Buffalo, 
and has ever since resided there. In the same year 
he became assistant stenographer of the Supreme 
Court in Buffalo, and continueil in that ]josition 
imtil 1882, when he was made official stenographer 
of the Su|)renie Court : the latter office he still 
holds. He was elected official stenograjjher of the 
New York state assembly in 1889 ; of the state sen- 
ate in 18!)() ; of the state constitutional commission 
in 1892 ; and one of the stenographers of the state 
constitutional convention in 1894. He has rejjorted 
the jiroceedings of many important legislative (oni- 
mittees, including the I'a.ssett committee of l.H9(l, 
who.se report filled 4(100 ])rinted pages. For several 
years he rejmrted llu- Chautauqua Assemblv. under a 



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contract to rtirnish at least twenty-six newsiaper col- 
umns daily. His stenographic notes arc written so 
perfectly that they can l)e turned over to others 
familiar with his system to he transcribed. He ha.s 
rejwrted many conventions cont erned with profes- 
sional ami scientific sulijects, and thus rei|iiiring not 
only highly expert shorthand writing, 
liut also some knowledge of the topics 
discussed. His collegiate education 
gives him an advantage in this respect 
over most |)r()fessional stenographers, and 
he has further equi])ped himself for efh 
cient and intelligent work hy a wide 
course of general reading. In addition 
to this he studieii law, for its value in 
court rejiorting, and was admitted to the 
bar in lf<H'2. He is familiar with French 
and (lerman, and has interjireted both 
languages in court. His private lilirarv 
contains over two thousand volinues, 
including many works of reference and a 
large number of books in French. 

It is clear from the foregoing that .Mr. 
Thornton stanils in the very front rank 
of stenographers. This fact has received 
official recognition, .so to speak, at vari- 
ous times. In 1^X2 he was elected 
|>resident of the .New York .State Ste 
nographers' .Association, and was again 
elected to that office in lX!)(i. He was 
made ])resident of the International Ste- 
nograjjhers' .\.s.sociation in \HH4. In \XX2 
he published a text-book on |>honogra|)h\ 
entitled "The Modern Stenographer." 

Mr. Thornton has now lived in Hui 
falo nearly :i ipiarter of a < entiiry, and 
has become well and favorabl) known 
in that city. He is a member of the 
leading clubs there, including the Buf- 
falo, I'niversity, .\cacia. Yacht, Whist, and t'hess 

(lulls. 

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tin/ Thornton was horn at U'ati-rtcm>n, Jefferson 
county, X. )'., A/>ri/ JS, JS'il: altemieii Jefferson 
County Institute, the ll'atertojvn //i,i;h Sehoo/, ani/ 
Rochester Universit\\ whence he graiiuateJ in 1S7~' : 
married Delia L. Cra;^in of Troy, N. )'. , May •■Ht, 
1874 •' "'"•>" assistant stenographer of the Supreme 
Court, Buffalo, ISTJS^ : loas admitteil to the har in 
ISSi : was elected president of the Xew York State 
Stenoi^raphers' Association in ISSJ, and a^'ain in 
Jti.W, and of the International Stenographers' Asso- 
ciation in ISHJf : has been official stenographer of the 
Supreme Court, Buffalo, since ISSJ. 



IIAcl^Oll O. ClttaUV), widely known in Ma- 
sonic and insurance circles in western New \'ork, 
was born in Flrie i oimty in 1X42. He is of excel- 
lent New Fngland stock, his ancestors having come 
to this country over two centuries ago. His mother 
dying when he was fi\e years old. .Nelson was 




c/'oiti;/-: iit>n.tKt> thokxtos 

brought u|i by his uncle, William .\. Whitney, a 
farmer and manufacturer of furniture at Scotland, 
( >ntario. His early life was fdled with hardship 
and disappointment. Leaving his imcle's at the 
age of seventeen he knew no home thereafter until 
he had made one for hiniself many years later. 
.•\fter starting out in the world he obLiineil a place 
on a farn), where he worked hard from ilawn till 
dark for seven dollars a month. A few months of 
this sufficed to show that prosperity lay not that 
wav, and the yoimg man sought to improve his |iosi- 
tion by taking work as a general laborer in a lumber 
camp. His duties there were comprehensive, ranging 
from the ilriving of oxen in the woods to account 
ing. timekeeping, and the measurement of timber. 



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In this unsatisfactory way Mr I'iffany passed his 
youth. Concluding that a hmiber camj) was not the 
best place for a young man ambitious to establish 
himself in the world, he went to Buffalo, and entered 
a business for which his training had particularly 
adapted him. Becoming general foreman in the 




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furniture manufactory of \V. Chase & Son, he 
remained with them about three years, and became, 
in 18(i8, general superintendent for the furniture 
house of .A. H. Andrews & Co., Chicago. Not 
liking the western metropolis as well as Buffalo, he 
returned to the latter city after about two years, to 
become superintendent in the factory of Chase & 
Co. While with them he was much more than a 
su])erintendent, as he invented and patented three 
improvements in school seats and desks, and made 
illustrative models with his own hands. In 1X71 
he deemed it best to leave the furniture business, 
and become a traveler for the Howe Sewing Ma- 
chine Co.; and for the next ten years he was a man- 
ager and su|)erintcndent of agencies for that house. 



Ha\ing resigned the position of manager for the 
Howe comjjany, .Mr. Tiffany became the general 
agent for their goods in Buffalo, where he conducted 
a successful business for over five years. During 
this time he figured in a somewhat famous tax suit. 
The owner of the block in which his store was loca- 
ted having failed to pay the taxes on the 
|jremises, the city attorney directed the 
tax collector to make a levy on the per- 
sonal property of Mr. Tiftany in his 
store. Naturally indignant, Mr. Tiffany 
protested against what seemed to him an 
ine.\cusable outrage. 'The case linally 
reached the Court of .'\|)peals, where Mr. 
Tiffany won. The suit was a great an- 
noyance to him at first, but ])roved to be 
a blessing in disguise, as it advertised his 
business most effectiveh . 

In 1SS2 Mr. 'Tiffany took the manage- 
ment of the New Vork office of the 
Household Sewing .Machine C"o., con- 
trolling the trade of the company in 
New York, Brooklyn, and Jersey City. 
.After conducting the office a year he 
resigned his position for the jiurpose of 
engaging in the business with which he 
is now identified — that of insuring the 
lives of Free Ma.sons. 

.Mr. Tiffany has changed his calling 
several times, but he has alwavs learned 
thoroughly any busine.ss that he has fol- 
lowed. In the case of in.surance he 
began his prejiaration by attending a 
course of lectures in the medical depart- 
ment of the L'niversity of Buffalo in 
18K;}-,S4. .\s soon as he had completed 
this course he was elected secretary and 
general agent of the Masonic Life Asso- 
ciation of \\'estern New York. For 
twelve consecutive years he has been re-elected to 
this position by the unanimous vote of the board of 
directors. It need hardly be added that Mr. 'Tiffany 
has conducted the affairs of the a.ssociation with 
e(|ual skill and success, and that he is regarded 
among insurance people as an excei)tionalIy able 
executive officer. During the years 1898-95 he 
was secretary of the national convention of mutual- 
insurance underwriters. 

On the personal side Mr. 'Tiffany's biograjjhy 
jjresents several interesting features. Pa.ssionately 
fond of flowers ever since childhood, he has culti- 
vated a garden with his own hands for many years, 
])artly from love of the pastime, |)artly for the sake 
of the exercise. He is likewise fond of sports, such 



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as hunting, fishing, and yachting ; and he is a direc- 
tor of the Buffalo Yacht Chib. Devoted to science 
and art and general literature, he has accumulated 
a library of over a thousand standard and choice 
volumes. In religious opinion Mr. Tiffany was 
always a L'nitarian by instinct, as he says, long before 
he heard of such a church or creed : and for twenty - 
five years he has been a regular attendant of the 
Church of Our Father, the first L'nitarian society of 
Kuffalo. As might be surmised t'rom his occujxition, 
he has been active in Ma.sonry, having taken all the 
degrees in all the branches of the order except ihe 
.'{.'W degree in the Scottish Rite. 

PERSONAL CIIROXOLO<JY— Nelson Otis 
Tiffany was horn at La ni aster, N. Y., Ffhriiary 
1, ISJfJ ; ivorkeil on a farm ami in a lumber iam/>, 
1800-01 ; engagej in the furniture business as man- 
ager and designer, ISOJf-ti'! : married 
Julia Charlotte Cha<e of Buffalo January 
•■iS, ISOS : traveled for the Hirwe Snoing 
Machine Co. as manager and suf>erintend- 
enl oj agencies, 1807-77 : conducted the 
seH'ing-machine business in Buffalo on his 
oum account, 1S77-S2 : reas manager of 
the Neiu ) ork office of the Household Serv- 
ing Machine Co. in 18SJ : has been secre- 
tary and general agent in Buffalo of the 
Masonic IJfe Association of Western Ne7t> 
Vor/: ,ince ISSi. 



Jfrailk J6nm^agC, essentially a 
young man, lias had a career full of 
achievement. No lawyer at the western 
end of the state is more widely or more 
highly appreciated for professional or 
personal merit. He commenced the 
practice of his jtrofession in the little 
town of .\ngelica, in .-Mlegany (Oimty. 
He was born and reared in that count) . 
was married there, and still keeps alive 
his connection with his old friends, 
neighbors, and relatives in that section. 
They insist that Frank Hnindage is an 
Allegany boy, though it is twenty-five 
years since his professional career carried 
him into broader fields. 

His first move was to I.ockiwrt. Ten 
successful and fortunate years were spent 
there in the jiractice of the law, mostly 
in connection with Hiram (lardner and 
the firm of Kllsworth, Potter iS: Hrumlage. Niagara 
county was a pleasant and appreciative sec ond home. 
All that it had to give to a lawyer it gave to him. 
When he had been in the countv onlv three vcars 



he was nominated by acclamation, and elected dis- 
trict attorney ; ami after he had de< lined a unani- 
mous renomination to that othce he was elected 
county judge. Niagara county, too, made him its 
candidate forjudge of the Supreme Court in the Kth 
judicial district, and he came within two votes of 
being nominated. l-'ew men ever had political 
experiences plea-santer or more promising than those 
that surroimdeii the last .seven years of Judge 
Hruniiage's life in I.ockport. 

Hut lor a man with the natural gifts of a trial 
lawyer, nothing that |>olitics or office h.is to offer 
com|)ares in attraction with the active |>ractice of 
his profe.ssion in a great city. Uuffalo knew of 
Judge Hnindage's pt)wers as an advocate, and Judge 
Hrumlage knew of the op|iortunities to exercise his 
abilities which Buffalo could give : and the inevitable 




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happened. When he w.is kirely thirty-five he had 
received about all that there was to get through 
|)olitics in his profession. 'Ihe prospect w.ns bright 
for promotion in the same lines, but another kind 



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of success was infinitely more attractive to him. 
He decided that, having tried both, he preferred 
the private to the public station ; and he enrolled 
himself in the exceedingly small class of ofifice- 
holders who have resigned. Subsequent events 
show that he has not repented his decision, for 




FREDERICK HALLER 

though temptations have been offered to him he has 
steadfastly declined to be a candidate for anything. 

Frank Brundage, lawyer, of Buffalo, has had 
about what he desired when he left Lockport. He 
has ])racticed law under the most favorable ausjMces, 
and with a goodly measure of success. Before he 
moved to Buffalo he was engaged as counsel in the 
Lyon case, growing out of the Bork treasury mat- 
ters ; and succeeded in reversing the conviction in 
the Court of Appeals after having been defeated in 
all the other courts. There were not many big 
cases in Buffalo during the eight years of his con- 
nection with the firm of Bissell, Sicard, Brundage 
& Bissell in which he did not make an appearance 
at some stage of the jjroceedings. He has had 



leisure to travel, and to enjoy the society of his 
friends ; he has been able to exercise his ardent 
Republicanism by making campaign speeches w^ith- 
out recompense ; and, in short, he has found life as 
a whole well worth living. The only serious cause 
for complaint that he has had against fortune was a 
prolonged and severe attack of ill health, 
the result of an accident. In 1894 this 
necessitated his withdrawal from the 
practice of his profession. However, he 
has recovered his health completely, and 
since 1895 has been in active practice as 
the senior member of the firm of Brun- 
dage & Dudley. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY — 
Frank Brundage tvas born at Allen, 
Allegany county, N. Y., January 4, 
18 1).! ; cotnpleted his education at Friend- 
ship (^N. Y.) Academy; was admitted to 
the bar at Albany iti December, 1868 ; 
practiced law at Angelica, N. Y., 1869- 
72 ; married Ella S. Brown of Angelica 
February 15, 1871 ; moved to Lockport, 
N. V. , in October, 1872, and resided 
there until 1883 ; teas district attorney of 
A^iagara count}', 1875-77, and county 
Judge, 1879-83; moved to Buffalo in Feb- 
ruary, 1883, and has practiced law there 
since. 



lFre&ericl? Iballer was bom in 

Augusta, (la., two years before the out- 
break of the Civil War. Becoming an 
orphan during infancy, he was brought 
up by relatives. He began to go to 
school at the age of six, and continued 
to obtain instruction in fundamental 
subjects until he was twelve years old. 
By that time his people felt unable to 
provide further education, and he was indentured 
for a term of three years as an apprentice to a cigar 
manufacturer at Savannah, Ca. This was not the 
most ideal method of attaining distinction in the 
law, but Mr. Haller's career .shows that such an end 
may sometimes follow this beginning. 

Serving out the prescribed time, and devoting 
himself diligently to all parts of his work, Mr. 
Haller learned the cigar maker's trade from .^ to Z. 
l'a.ssing mention may be made of his fortunate escape 
from yellow fever during the epidemic of 187() at 
Savannah. In l.H.HO he left the Empire State of the 
South, determined to seek the larger opportunities 
of metropolitan life. Taking up his residence in 
New York <'ity, accordingly, about the time he 



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became of age, he worked at his trade there for the 
next eight years. The cigar makers of N'ew York 
have freijuently been at oilds with their emiiloyers, 
and Mr. Haller, who soon l)ecame a leader among 
his fellow-workmen, was a strong force on the side 
of the employees. In all controversies he was con- 
servative anil wi.se in his counsels and leadership. 

in IXHH Mr. Haller left New York anil betook 
himself to Buffalo. He carried with him the tools 
of his trade, and soon found work. He had been 
in Buffalo only a few months, however, when he 
made a railical ileiKirture from his previous voi ation. 
.\t the suggestion of Tracy C. Becker, a ])rominent 
attorney of Buffalo, who had become interested in 
Mr. Haller, the latter resolved to study law. This 
decision was not so strange as it might appear, since 
Mr. Haller had been for years a persistent reader 
and student on a small scale. While liv- 
ing in New York he visited the Cooper 
Institute frecpiently, and attended the 
lectures at that institution. I'^ntering 
the Buffalo \a\\ School in the fall of 
IMHX, he pursued his studies with great 
energy. His rapid progress, indeed, 
was remarkalile, when the adverse con- 
ditions uniler whi< h he labored are taken 
into account. Not only was he some- 
what handicapped at the beginning by 
rea.son of inaileipiate ])re|)aration, but he 
w;is also ol)liged, in order to support 
himself and family, to work at his trade 
while attending the law school. All 
the.se difficulties were happily overcome 
at last, anil he obtaineil the degree of 
Bachelor of I^ws in 1H!)(). 

Admitted to the bar at Buffalo in June, 
ISHl, Mr. Haller began practice at once. 
His first partnershij) was formed in thai 
year with James t". FuUerton, with whom 
he continued to be associated until Jan- 
uary 1, 1><!I4. After practicing alone 
for sixteen months, Mr. Haller formed a 
l>artnership with I.. I'. Hancock, under 
the linn name of Haller & Hancock. 
This association still exists. Mr. Haller 
has already established a substantial ])ra<- 
tice, and attained an excellent position 
at the bar of Buffiilo. His cajuicity in 
the law was recognized in January, 
1H!)(), when he was appointed one of 
the assistant district attorneys of I-',rie countv. 

PERSOXAI. CHROXOI. OG Y—Fre.ierick 
llallfr u<ai horn at Aiii^iista, Ga. , April S, ISof) ; 
•was eJiicateJ in (ominon schools ; leanifti tlu (i,i;ar 



maker's trade am/ jvorked at the same, in Savanna/i, 
Ga., am/ in A'e7i< Yorltcity, 1S~1 1-SS . married Anna 
Zeip of AVw York city Afay 1 , ISS'4 : studied /aw, 
and was admitted to t/ie />ar in ISUl ; /las been assist- 
ant district attorney of Erie county since January 1, 
isna ; /las practiced /aw in Buffa/o since 1S91. 

/IDiUl; SllUcx: l^UbliCll > one of the be.st- 
known men in Buffalo and in western New York, 
although he is barely forty years old. News|japer 
men and public officials are neces-sarily much in the 
public eye, anil he has already won distinction in 
both lines of activity. 

.Mr. Hubbell was born in BufTalo, where his father, 
John Hubbell, was city attorney in 1X54-55, and 
was otherwise prominent as lawyer and citizen for 
many years. Mark Hubbell's education, begun in 




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Buffalo .s( hools, was completed at military a< ademies 
in Montrose and Newark, N. J. ; and he then 
entered the office of Bangs, Sedgwick iS: North of 
New York city as a law student, with a view to 



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MEA' OF NEIV VORK—IVESTERN SECT/ON 



following his father's profession. After due prepa- 
ration he was admitted to the bar in 1878, and prac- 
ticed for about a year in his father's office in 
Buffalo ; but at the end of that time he determined 
to yield to his strong predilection for journalism and 
a literary career. 

Mr. Hubbell's first work in the newspaper world 
was for the Buffalo Express, and it soon became 
evident that he had acted wisely in changing his 
profession. Before long an opportunity offered to 
go to New York, and he spent four years there in 
the service of the Thnes and the World. These 
great dailies ])roved an excellent training school for 
the young journalist, and he profited much by the 
e.xperience gained there. After making a trip 
around the world, via Australia and the Orient, he 
returned to Buffalo in 1883, and took a position 
with the Buffalo Courier. Later he acted as manag- 
ing editor of the Buffalo Times for two years, and 
then served on the staff of the Neios for six years. 
Buffalo readers do not need to be told of his work 
during this time. His natural ability, cultivated 
and enriched by extensive travel and accurate obser- 
vation, gave him a foremost place among local edi- 
torial writers. His descriptive style was easy, yet 
vivid ; his political articles were keen and discrimi- 
nating ; but the work for w'hich he is best known is 
his poetry. Here his talent for satire had full play, 
though he could be also pathetic at times ; and these 
verses, treating in his own inimitable style the 
topics of the day, whether of local or more extended 
interest, did much to influence po])ular opinion on 
many important questions. 

The change from journalism to the work of a city 
official is a radical one in some res[)ects, but Mr. 
Hubbfll has acquitted himself with equal credit in 
the latter calling. Elected city clerk for the year 
1894, he has been re-elected each succeeding year, 
and is now serving his fourth term in that capacity. 
These continued re-elections sufficiently attest the 
fact that he has discharged the duties of the office 
to the complete satisfaction of the common council 
and of the public generally. He has done much to 
systematize the working of his department, and has 
compiled an excellent "Manual" of the city 
government. He has also prepared and published a 
unique and most serviceable annotated edition of 
the " Charter and Ordinances." 

Mr. Hubbell's connections with the social life of 
Buffalo are many and varied. He is a Mason, be- 
longing to Ancient Landmark Lodge, No. 441, F. 
& A. M. ; and a member of the Orpheus Society, 
the Buffalo Historical Society, the Buffalo Repub- 
lican League, the Press Club, and the I-",ilicott 



Club. His gifts as a writer and public officer, and 
his ardent devotion to the prosperity of Buffalo, 
have given him a large circle of friends and acquaint- 
ances. 

PERSONAL CHR OXOL O G F— Mark Sib- 
ley Hubbell 7vas ham at Buffalo February 5, 1857 ; 
7Lias educated in Buffalo schools, and in New Jersey 
military academics : icas admitted to the bar in 1878, 
and practiced laui a short time ; married Elizabeth /. 
Oliver of Buffalo January 3, 188.3 ; was connected 
with various newspapers in New York and Buffalo, 
1882-9Jf ; has been city clerk of Buffalo since Janu- 
ary 1, 189 If. 



(Beorge ]£. /IDattbe\V5, editor of the Buffalo 
Express and president of the Matthews-Northrup 
Co., is following closely the course mapped out for 
him by nature. He is the son of a distinguished 
editor and printer, and his career has been the 
natural result of inheritance and surroundings. 

Mr. Matthews was born in Westfield, Chautauqua 
county, at his mother's old home ; but his parents 
lived in Buffalo at the time, and he may fairly be 
regarded as a Buffalonian from first to last. His 
education was obtained there, in private schools, 
until he was sixteen years old. He was ready to 
enter college then, but his parents thought him too 
young to get the full benefit of a college course. 
For two years, therefore, he gave up school life, 
and devoted himself i)artly to travel and partly to 
learning the rudiments of the printer's trade as 
typesetter, copyholder, and proof reader. His father, 
J. N. Matthews, was at that time editor of the 
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, and part owner of 
the large printing plant connected therewith ; and 
in that establishment Mr. Matthews, while waiting 
for time to catch uj) with him before entering 
college, laid the foundations of his knowledge of 
the printing and [uiblishing business. By the fall 
of 1873 he was rather more than eighteen years old, 
and was ready to go on with his education. Enter- 
ing Yale, accordingly, with the class of '77, he 
received in due course the Bachelor of Arts degree. 

In January, 1878, J. N. Matthews became editor 
and proprietor of the Buffalo Express, and his son 
entered the service of the jiajjcr in the business 
department. At first only a clerk behind the 
counter of the public office, he .soon rose to more 
responsible stations, and ultimately held the position 
of business manager for several years. He also 
filled various places on the staff of writers, as 
occasional vacancies made opportunity for such 
experience. He was telegraph editor for a time, 
city editor for several periods, and literary editor 



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Wu 



for three years, thus obtaining adc(|iiate training for 
his present work of editor in thief. In the |)rinting 
Inisiness, likewise, Mr. .Matthews ser\ed a long and 
wholesome apprenticeshi]). He was c-orres[X)ndenre 
clerk in the old house of Matthews Bros. 
& Bryant, had charge of various dejwrt- 
ments in the establishment of Matthews, 
Northriip & Co., and fmally became 
trea.surer of the latter concern. He has 
always been interested in the various arts 
of typography, and h;us a comprehensive 
general knowledge of the siibjecl. 

The death of J. N. Matthew.-, in De- 
cember, 188X, charged his .son with the 
responsibility of managing both the Buf- 
falo Express and the printing business: 
and since then .Mr. .Matthews has been 
editor of the paper and jjresident of the 
Matthews-Northrup Co. .As an editor 
he has obtained generous commendation 
for independence, symjjathy with all 
movements |)romoting good government, 
and consistent and unyieliling opposition 
to "machine" |>olitics. Whatever else 
has been said of the Buffalo Express, no 
one has ever seriously thought that it 
could be frightened off or bought off. 
Its editor's birth synchronized with the 
birth of the Republic^nn party, and Mr. 
Matthews has always been a strong sup- 
porter of Republican doctrines. He has 
never been a candidate for public office, 
but his duties as an editor have made 
him conversant with some of the di.scom- 
forts, as well as some of the jileasures, 
connected with a public position. 

The life of Mr. Matthews has been 
devoted so exclusively to the business of printing 
and news|>a|)er making, that it has been fortunate 
for him that his relations with those having similar 
interests have always had a strong infusion of friend- 
ship. He has been for several years president of 
the Buffalo Typothetae, and of the Buffalo News- 
|Kiper Publi.shers' .-\s.sociation. He is a member, 
though not a very active one, of almost all the 
leading clulis and many of the associations of 
Buffalo. 

/' E R S O XA I. CH ROXOLOGY— Geon^e 
EiiwiirJ .\/,it(hf7i>s rcds horn at Westfielii, X. )'. , 
March 17, 183') ; prepare// for college in private 
schools at Buffalo, and graduate J from ) 'ale College 
7vith the class of 1S77 : hell i-arious positions in the 
business and editorial departments of the Buffalo 
■' Fxhrcis," and 7,'itli tli,- t'lintin.- •■^iiihlislimeiU of 



Mattlieu's, Northrup &• Co. , 1878SS ; married Mary 
Eliziiheth Burnnvs of Buffalo July U, 1SS7 : has 
heen editor of the Buffalo ' ' Express, ' ' and president 
of the Matthnvs- Xorthrup Co., since January /, 1880. 




CEORot-: /• \irrrnF.\\s 

©ttOinar IRcinCChC, e.lilor of the Buffalo 
Ereie /'/v.>r, tt,i> Imum M>mewhat more than fifty 
years .igo in the Cerman princi|)ality of Schwar/.burg- 
Sondershausen, near the romantic Har/ mountains. 
His early education was received in the .schools of 
his native land : but in his twelfth year his |)arents 
came to the new world antl settled in Buffalo, and 
the lad's studies were completed in the public 
.schools of that city. His father was a printer by 
trade, ingenious and pos.scssed of the sturdy de- 
termination that compels success. Two years after 
arriving in Buflalo he started a printing office, with 
a capital of 880 and no credit, and with a press 
built by himself of wood and iron. This machine 
bore more resemblance to the early inventions of 
Ciutenberg than to the sextu|)le press of a modern 
news]>aper offiic ; hut it mtvimI the purposes of its 



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maker so well that when he died a dozen years later 
he left his son a substantial business, which included 
the publication of a weekly German newspaper, the 
Buffalo Firie Presse. 

From the time the printing office was started, 
Ottomar Reinecke had helped his father in the 




OTTOMAR REIXECKE 

afternoons while attending school in the morning; 
and he soon left school altogether, and devoted his 
whole time to the office. He was thus well qualified 
to take charge of the business at his father's death 
in 1806. The following year he formed a jiartner- 
ship with P'rank H. Zcsch that has continued ever 
since. Five years later George Baltz was admitted 
to the firm, and the Freie Fiesse became a daily 
journal. This was in 1872, and for the past twenty- 
five years the ]japer has held its place as the recog- 
nized organ of the (Jerman Republicans of Buffalo, 
and under Mr. Reinecke's able leadership has won 
deserved success. Mr. Baltz retired from the busi- 
ness after two years, and since then the firm of 
Reinecke & Zesch have been the owners and pub- 



lishers of the pajjer, and have carried on an extensive 
job-printing business. 

Mr. Reinecke is connected with various business 
enterprises outside of his newspaper interests. He 
has been for a number of years a director and stock- 
holder in the Erie Fire Insurance Co., and holds a 
similar position in the Citizens' Gas Co. 
He is a member of the Buffalo Typothe- 
tae, an association of employing printers 
for business and social purposes. He is a 
life member of the German Young Men's 
Association and of the Buffalo Turn Ver- 
ein, and belongs to the Saengerbund, 
the second oldest singing society in the 
city. In January, 1896, Mayor Jewett 
appointed him one of the park commis- 
sioners of Buffalo. 

Mr. Reinecke is an enthusiastic natur- 
alist, and has devoted his leisure time 
for years to study and research in this 
line. Beetles, butterflies, birds, and 
birds' nests and eggs have interested him 
particularly, and his collection of such 
specimens is probably one of the largest 
belonging to a private individual in the 
United States. He has published a com- 
plete list of local Coleoptera that is e.\- 
ceedingly valuable. He has taken great 
interest in the Buffalo Society of Natural 
Sciences ever since its organization in 
1861, and has done much to enrich its 
collections in the special subjects that 
have received his attention. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY — 
Ottomar Reinecke was born at Sonders- 
haiisen, Germany, N^ovemher 20, 1840 : 
ca/ne to the United States in 1852 ; was 
educated in Gertnan schools and in Buffalo 
public schools ; worked for his father at the 
printer' s trade, 18i)Jf-66 ; married Eva Engel of 
Buffalo September 25, ISGG ; has been a member of 
the firm of Reinecke &" Zesch, job printers and pro- 
prietors of the Buffalo ' ' Ereie Presse, ' ' since 1867 ; 
lias been one of the park commissioners of Buffalo since 
1S9G. 

PerrV? CbampliU 1RCV?bUrn numbers among 
his ancestors .so nian\ names famous in the early 
history of our country that jjassing mention must be 
made of them in any sketch of his own life. 
Benedict Arnold, governor of Rhode Island in 1663, 
Thomas Hazard, one of the founders of Newport in 
the same state, C'hristoplicr Champlin, first Grand 
Master of Masons there, and nianv revolutionary 



ME.\ ()/■' XEW vo/ik' -WKs ■/•/■: h\\ sEcr/oy 



•AU<i 



heroes and heroines are included in the list ; while 
in the |)resent century we find the Perry brothers, 
t)liver Ha/anl and Mattlicw (_'all)raith, one of whom 
won a signal victory over the MnjjilNh at Put-in hay 
in the war of \f<\'l, while the other commanded the 
expedition to Ja]>an in IX")."} that opened to American 
commerce the harbors of that inhos|)itai>le island 
empire. Oliver Ma/.ard Perry, it may l>e remem- 
bered, announced his victory to (leneral Harrison 
in the words so often (|uotcd, "We have met the 
enemy, and they are ours." 

The subject of our present sketch has s|)ent his 
life thus far — less than forty years in all — in 
Buffalo. He was educated in the public schools of 
the city, leaving the high school at the age of seven- 
teen to begin the study of law. The next four years 
were ])a.ssed in Buffalo law offices, at first with 
Joseph v. Seaver and Brainard T. Ball, 
and later with David F. Day and Frank 
R. Perkins. At the end of that time 
he was admitted to the bar at Rochester, 
and began the i)ractice of his ])rofession 
in Buffalo. At'ter practicing alone for 
some time he became a member of the 
firm of Bullymore, Reyburn & dritlin in 
March, 1H!K). When this a.ssociation 
was dissolved by an act of the legislature 
that prohibited Mr. tlriffin, as clerk of 
the Surrogate's Court, from practicing 
law, Mr. Reyburn continued his connec- 
tion with Mr. Bullymore until the s|>ring 
of 189G. Since then he has practiced 
alone. Mr. Reyburn hxs made a sjie- 
cialty of the settlement of estates, real- 
estate titles, and mortgages ; and has had 
charge of a number of important (;isi> 
and suits. 

In religious, social, and fraternal cir 
cles Mr. Reyburn has long been ])romi- 
nent and active. Left an orphan at the 
age of eight years, he was brought up by 
his grandfather, Clordon Bailey, a dea- 
con in the Unitarian chunh: and he 
has attended that church from ( hildhood. 
working in the Sunday school for many 
years as librarian and teacher. He was 
for a long time a member of the Unity 
Club of Buffalo, holding the office of 
secretary and treasurer, and taking a 
foremost part in the amateur theatrical 
work of the club. He was a charter member of the 
Buffiilo City Cuard Cadet Corjis, organized in 1H7."?. 
Following in the steps of his early ancestor, he has 
taken great intcroi in M:i>()nrv. in wliich he reached 



the 32d degree when but twenty -three years of age. 
In 1«H2 he joineil \Va.shinglon lodge. No. '.'40, 
1'". iV .A. M., of which his grandfather had been 
Master in 1X")4, and after ten years in the various 
(hairs was made Worshipful Master January 1, iJSlMi. 
He is al.so a member of Buffalo Chapter, No. 71, 
R. .v. M.: Hugh de Payens Commandery, No. .'lit, 
K. 1; Buftalo Consistory, A. A. S. R.: and Ismailia 
rem|)le. Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He served 
five years on the Ma.sonic board of relief. He has 
been for many years a member of the Buffalo Reinib- 
lican League, and belonged to the lamoiis " 'MW\ " 
organization in iMNd. He has membershij), al.so, 
in the Buffido Whist Club and in the Acacia Club. 

PEESOXAL CIIR ONOI.OG Y— Perry 
Chitmf>/in Reylnirn 7vas born at liiiffalo Si-pUinlier 10, 
18,'}!> ; 7i>as eiUicateii in public schools there ; stuilied 




I'EHRY (H.I.WI./X KKV/IIKX 

lajo, anil was admitted to the bar at Rochester Octo- 
ber S, ISSO ; married Ida A. Schneider of Buffalo 
January .W, ISO/i : has practiced law in Buffalo 
since ISSU. 



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MEN OF NEW YORK —WESTERN SECTION 



George ;©. TliHebStCr, \\ell under forty, is 
still classed among the young lawyers of Buffalo, but 
he has already won success such as many men are 
content to struggle a lifetime to secure. A law 
student under President Cleveland when the Presi- 
dent was still a Buffalo lawyer, Mr. Webster has 



GEORGE n. WEIISTEK 

retained a warm ])ersonal interest in the fortunes 
of his old employer, and this has naturally imjielled 
him to take a prominent part in politics on the 
Democratic side. His success as a lawyer, however, 
is in no way dejiendent on his activity as a politician. 
He stands high socially, as the kind of man that 
other bright men like to know. 

Mr. Webster's education was all obtained in 
Buffalo, first in the Rev. J. F. Ernst's private school, 
then in Public School No. 10, and afterward in the 
Normal School and the Healhcote School. When 
fourteen years old he closed his books, and set 
about earning his own living. Having obtained a 
situation in the treasurer's office of the Buffalo, New 
York iV Philadelphia railroad, he remained there till 




he was sixteen years old, and was industrious and 
faithful in the performance of all duties assigned to 
him. Moreover, unlike many boys who go to work 
at an early age, he did not regard the pleasure of 
spending a salary from week to week as the only 
object in earning it. He looked to the future, hus- 
banding his resources, and thus was able, 
at an earlier age than is po.ssible in the 
case of most self-dependent young men, 
to prepare for the profession that he had 
determined to make his life-work. After 
spending somewhat more than a year in 
the law office of Bowen, Rogers & Locke, 
he entered the office of Bass, Cleveland 
& Bissell, a firm that was destined to 
give the city a mayor, the state a gov- 
ernor, and the nation a jiresident and a 
jjostmaster-general. Mr. Webster was 
admitted to the bar about a year and a 
half after entering the service of the 
firm, but he remained with it for three 
years longer. 

After Mr. Cleveland assumed the office 
of governor, Mr. Webster was called to 
Albany to take a position in the cajjitol 
( ommi.ssioner's office. He remained 
there for more than three years, and 
then, returning to Buffalo, resumed the 
practice of law, first by himself, and later 
in partnership with Devoe P. Hodson. 

When the election for delegates to the 
constitutional convention was held, Mr. 
W'ebster was named as one of the Demo- 
c ratic candidates. The nomination was 
made in the expectation that he would 
lie elected, and would have a part in the 
work of revising the constitution, as the 
Democratic party was then in apparently 
imjiregnablc control of the state. But 
l.Sil.'J pro\ecl to be a Reptiblican year, and Mr. Web- 
ster was defeated with most of the other candidates 
of his ])arty in his part of the stale. 

Mr. Webster belongs to the Buffalo Club, the 
Ancient Landmark Lodge, F. & A. M., the Royal 
Arcanum, and the Sons of the American Revolution. 
He has served terms of enlistment in both the Coth 
and the 74th regiments. He is a member of the 
Church of the Ascension (Episcopal). 

PERSONAL CUR ONOL O G V— George Buell 
// 'chster was horn at Buffalo March ,S', 1859 ; 7i'as 
educated in public and private schools in Buffalo ; was 
admitted to the bar in 1880 ; married Agnes Jcanette 
Ovens of Buffalo June 2~ , 1883 ; has practiced hno 
in Buffalo since 188(!. 



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I 



I 



1IClaC>5\V0rtb 3. ZlttCl, one of the pro- 
prietors ol the liuiialo L'aiuly Co., was horn in 
Detroit, Mi<h., a little more than forty years ago. 
His |)arents were natives of the province of .Msat e- 
I.orrainc who came to this country in the early '."id's 
and settled in ISuffalo. I.ater they moved further 
westwarti to Michigan, where Wadsworth w;ls l)orn. 
He graduated from the |)ul)lic schools of Detroit, 
and afterward took a course at Itryant iS: Stratton's 
Husine.ss College there; and at the age of fifteen, 
with a sound fundamental education and plenty of 
native pluck and energy, he started in business life, 
lie went first to .\kron, Ohio, where he spent three 
years in a wholesale drug ami grocery house, and 
gained considerable insight into practical husine.ss 
methods. He then betook himself to HufTalo, his 
parents' former home, and entered the emjjloy of 
I'hilip Hecker & Co., one of the largest 
wholesale grocery firms in the city. He ^ 
began with them at the bottom of the 
ladder, but soon worked his way up to 
more im|iortant |iositions, and eventually 
i)ecame a traveling salesman, with terri- 
tory in western New York and Pennsyl- 
vania. In fact the greater part of the 
fifteen \ears that he remained with this 
hou.se was spent "on the road." Buf- 
falo's wonderful development along all 
the lines of business and commercial 
activity began during this time, and Mr. 
Zittel's employers were not slow to take 
.tdvantage of the favorable conditions. 
Progressive, and at the same time con- 
servative, their house furnished an excel- 
lent practical school in which to learn 
sound l)usiness i)rinci|)les and successful 
business methods. Mr. Zittel was an 
apt pupil, and his connection with the 
llrni was profitable alike to them and to 
himself. 

Hut when a favorable opjwrtiinity of- 
fered to embark in business on his own 
account, Mr. Zittel, like most other men, 
was willing to leave even a good posi- 
tion as an emjiloyee for the s;ike of the 
greater independence to be found in an , 
establishment of his own. In company, 
therefore, with Michael Hausauer, who 
ha<l been one of his employers in the 
firm of Becker & Co., anil his son 
Ceorge M. Hausauer, Mr. /.ittel in isill established 
the Buffalo Candy Co., manufacturers and wholesale 
dealers in confectionery. He has conducted this 
business ever since, and has met with a gratifying 



measure of succes.s. .\ s|jacious building on Kllicott 
street is now occupied by this com|)any. 

Mr. Zittel is a consistent Republican, and has 
long taken an interest in |)arty politics. He has 
never held public office, but his name has been 
mentioned in connection with various |x)litiral 
nominations. He is a Mason, and belongs to all the 
boilies of the order up to and including the .'I'Jd 
ilegree. He is also an Odd Fellow, and a member 
of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. He belongs to 
various social organizations, among them the Old 
Cerman Society and the l^llicott Club. 

J'KKSOX.ij. CIIROXOLOGY — WaJs^vorth 
/. Zitlel tuas honi at Ddroil, Midi., Nornnhfr 2If, 
1S.').'> ; ivas fJiicaleil in public sihoo/s ami Jinan/ ef 
Stratton's Business Collfj^f : was dtrk in a wlwlfsalf 
ilrug and )^roifr\ housf at Akron, ().. IS'O-l-i : loas 




III /).s 1 1 * I A' 77/ /. / / rri-: i 

in till- fmploy of J'liilif< JiCikcr of Co., Buffalo, 
ISl.i-HS ; married Sarah Goetz of Buffalo .\fay Li, 
IflSO ; lias hffn a />ro/>riftor of llif Buffalo C 'andv 
Co. sill,;- Ism. 



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MEN OF NEW YORK— WESTERN SECTION 



Carl ©ttO H^Ultgren, the only Swedish pastor 
in the United States who has served a single congre- 
gation so long as thirty-two consecutive years, is 
widely known in western New York and Pennsyl- 
vania, and as widely beloved. Born in one of the 
southern ])rovinces of Sweden on Christmas day, 




CAKL OTTO ULLTGREN 

1832, he has lived a long life consistently with the 
happy omen of his birthday. He came to America 
with his parents in September, 1853, and took up his 
residence in the old Swedish settlement at Andover, 
111. He had then reached his majority, and had al- 
ready made some progress in obtaining an education. 
At Andover this progress was much accelerated by 
the tuition of the gifted pastor of the local church, 
the Rev. Jonas Swen.sson, who was Mr. Hultgrcn's 
predecessor in the pastorate at Jamestown. Continu- 
ing his studies in Chicago, Springfield, and Paxton, 
111., Mr. Hultgren was ordained Lutheran pastor 
by the .\ugustana synod June 19, 1864. 

Before this date he had received a call from the 
First Swedish Lutheran congregation at Jamestown. 



Accepting this opportunity gladly, he threw himself 
into his work with the ardor of youth, the energy of 
his race, the devotion of his noble character. Suc- 
cess could not long withstand such forces, and the 
little church with which he started flourished exceed- 
ingly. In 1864, when he took charge of the James- 
town church, the communicant member- 
ship was eighty. This figure had risen 
to 12oo when he resigned in 1895, while 
the total membership amounted to 2252. 
The first church was built by him in 
1866, and was afterwards enlarged ; and 
the congregation now worship in a su- 
perb Medina-stone structure valued at 
.8100,000. In 18!)o failing health made 
it prudent for Mr. Hultgren to give up 
active service, and his appreciative and 
affectionate congregation voted him a 
liberal annual pension. 

But Mr. Hultgren has been more than 
a pastor — or rather, he has been a 
perfect pastor, in the full etymological 
meaning of the word : he has cared for 
his flock most tenderly and most faith- 
fully. Unnumbered poor immigrants 
from his native land bless him for his 
kindness to them in their hour of need. 
He furnished transportation, clothing, 
meals, and overflowing cheer. His little 
home was often crowded, but room was 
always made for the heljaless. His ser- 
vices were not confined to his immediate 
congregation. For years he was the 
only Swedish Lutheran clergyman in 
western New York, and his countrymen 
both there and in Pennsylvania came to 
rely upon him implicitly for services in 
matters spiritual. 

Mr. Hultgren ha.s taken a broad view 
of his work, and has served the cause of Christian 
advancement in many ways not directly connected 
with his pastoral duties. He organized and nur- 
tured into abounding vitality a great number of the 
.Swedish churches that now exert their beneficent 
influence over the western counties of the Empire 
State and adjacent parts of Pennsylvania. He was 
one of the organizers, in 1870, and the first presi- 
dent, of the New York Conference of the Augus- 
tana synod, a body that now has 35,000 members, 
and owns property valued at over 81,000,000. In 
1883 he became the chief founder and one of the 
incorporators of the Custaviis Adolphus Orphans' 
Home, located at Jamestown. Ever since then he 
has given the institution untiring care. 



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Mr. Hultgren is a singularly modest man, and his 
countless benefattions would never have been known 
from any act or word of his. This biography, in- 
deed, would never appear if he could have his way ; 
but thou.sands of readers will welcome even an in- 
adeijuate sketch of his inspiring life ami e.xalted 
character. 

PERSONAL CHROXOl.OCY— Carl Otto 
Hultgren was born at Hvena, Sweiien, December 25, 
18-iJ : came to the United States in ]S5S : was edu- 
cated at Illinois Stale University, Sprin_i^field, III. , and 
at Augustana College and Seminary, /'axton. III., 
from which he graduated in ISiJJf ; married Annie 
Truedson at Galeshurg, 111., June 6, 1806; was 
pastor of the First Swedish Lutheran Church, James- 
town, iV. v., lS04-0.'> : has been president of the 
board of directors of the Gustarus Adolphus Orphans 
Home, Jamesttnvn, since its organization 
in ISS.i. 

Jfraul5 5. Oal;C5, long prominent 
in his native county of Cattaraugus, and 
of late actively connected with many en- 
teri>rises in Kuffalo, was born of New 
I-".nglanil parentage fifty-odd years ago in 
what is now the village of Arcade. His 
career as inventor, manufacturer, public 
official, and private citizen, presents an 
unusual variety of interesting details, and 
displays throughout a conscientiousness 
and a desire to benefit his fellows that 
are not so common as optimists would 
have us believe. 

In his boyhood Mr. Oakes attended the 
district schools of Cattaraugus county : 
and later s])ent several terms at a "se- 
lect" school at Yorkshire Center, which 
he organized by securing jmpils and 
teacher himself. Just before his major- 
ity he entered a hardware and tin store 
at Otto, N. Y. , of whi<h his brother was 
one of the proprietors. He remained 
there several years, aciiuiring a |iractiial 
knowledge of tinsmithing in addition to 
a general knowledge of the retail busi- 
ness of the store. His boyhood having 
been spent on a dairy (arm, he was 
familiar with the handling of milk and 
all dairy pro<lucLs ; anil in 1«7.S he made 
practical api)lication of this early knowl- 
edge by inventing and pijtenting the "common- 
sense milk pans" for cream raising. The peculiar- 
ity of the.se i>ans consisted in the setting of the milk 
at the unusual depth of ten to twenty inches, and 



their intro<luction was hindered by the prejudice of 
even the most intelligent dairymen against such an 
innovation ; but in IKTN the invention was awarded 
the first |)ri/.e at the New York State l-air, and 
to-day Mr. Oakcs's theory has become generally 
accepted. Since 1X74 he has been succes.sfully 
engaged in the manufac tiire of his invention in Cat- 
taraugus, and of late \cars has greatly extemied his 
operations. A large tinning anti stamping plant has 
been established, and a general line of dairy and 
cheese-factory apiwratus is manufactured. The pres- 
ent style of the firm is ( )akes \- Hurger, and their 
goods are sold throughout the dairy sections of the 
United States. 

Since 1«!)1 Mr. Oakes has been a member of the 
firm of Rich & Oakes, dealers in real estate in 
Buffalo and vicinity. .An enthusiastic believer in 




FK.I.XK .V. O.iKKS 

the fiitiireof the <Jueen City, and in the tremendous 
impetus whi< h the ailvent of ele( trie energy from 
the l-"alls may be exjiected to im|iart to the manu- 
facturing interests of the Niagara frontier, he has 



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identified iiimself with many movements for pro- 
moting the prosperity of "greater Buffalo." He 
took a prominent part in the building of the Buffalo, 
Kenmore & Tonawanda electric railway, and was 
vice president and a director of the company until 
it was sold to the Buffalo 'I'raction Co. He is a 
member of the Buffalo Real Estate Exchange, and 
was a director of the association for one year. He 
represented the E.xchange in the World's Real 
Estate Congress in Chicago during the exposition of 
1893. He served as chairman of the improvement 
committee of the Exchange : and he is now chair- 
man of the forestry committee, a body that aims to 
secure the establishment of a municipal bureau that 
shall plant and care for the shade trees of the city. 
He was a member of the Exchange committee that 
obtained from the municipal authorities the right of 
entrance for Niagara Falls electric power. 

Mr. Oakes has taken a keen interest in public 
affairs for a long time. Twenty years ago he was 
elected exci.se commissioner of the town of New 
Albion, in which the village of Cattaraugus is situa- 
ted, and used his office to rid the town, through the 
courts, of the traffic in intoxicating liquors ; and he 
accomplished the work so thoroughly that there has 
been no return of the evil since. He has served as 
president of the village of Cattaraugus for three suc- 
cessive terms, during which the present system of 
waterworks, deemed one of the best in the country, 
was constructed. His latest re-election, in 1896, 
without opposition, was a strong endorsement of his 
able and vigorous administration. On questions of 
general public policy his sympathies are with the 
Republicans, though his interest in the cause of 
temperance, both from a moral and economic stand- 
point, compelled him to vote with the Prohibition 
party for a number of years. He w-as a delegate to 
the Prohibition national convention in 1884 and 
again in 1888. In the crucial campaign of 1896, 
however, he gave his active support to the Republi- 
can ticket, making a number of speeches in favor of 
McKinley and sound money. 

Consistently with his principles, Mr. Oakes ab- 
stains from the use of tobacco and strong drinks. 
He is a member of the Congregational church, but 
is liberal in his religious views, believing in prac- 
tical rather than theoretical Christianity. He is 
much interested in Sunday-school work, and is a 
supporter of home and foreign missionary enter- 
prises. He is a member of the Ellicott Club of 
Buffalo, of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, 
and of the Royal 'rem])lars of Temjjerance. 

PERSONA L CHR ONOL O G Y— Franklin 
Stacey Oakes was horn at China {mnc Arcade), 



X. Y., Decemlier 2(1, ISJf^ ; loas educated in district 
and ' ' select ' ' schools ; 7i'as employed in a hardware 
store at Otto, N. Y. , 1H6'>-G9 ; married Jennie 
Calver of Marhlehead, Mass. , Septemher 1 1, 1872 ; 
has been president of the 7'illage of Cattaraiii^iis, N. Y. , 
since 189Jf ; has engaged in the manufacture of dairy 
and cheesefactory apparatus at Cattaraugus since 
1871/-, and in real-estate and other enterprises in 
Buffalo since 1891. 



Xauren M. PettebOne has taken a promi- 
nent part in the recent development of Niagara 
Falls from a town of small commercial importance 
to a thriving and growing manufacturing city. The 
story of the "harnessing of Niagara" is a familiar 
one, and each successive .step in the great achieve- 
ment has been watched with eager interest. A 
wonderful impetus has been given to all kinds of 
business activity in that locality, and men like Mr. 
Pettebone have not been slow to avail themselves of 
the o])portunities thus presented. 

Born in Lockport less than fifty years ago, Mr. 
Pettebone was taken to Buffalo in early childhood, 
and was educated there in private schools. In the 
meantime his family moved to Niagara Falls, and 
when he left school in 186.5 he entered the office of 
the Niagara Falls Paper Mfg. Co. He remained 
with this concern eighteen years, becoming thor- 
oughly conversant with the business in all its 
branches, and developing from an inexperienced lad 
into a shrewd and sagacious business man. Finally, 
in 1883, he organized the Pettebone Paper Co., and 
was made its secretary and treasurer. Fi\e years 
later he became president of the corjjoration, and 
held the office until 1892. .\t that time the Pette- 
bone - Cataract Paper Co. was organized, with Mr. 
Pettebone as vice president and director ; and these 
positions he still holds. 

Mr. Pettebone has thus been connected with the 
manufacture of jjajjcr for over thirty years, or during 
the whole of his business life ; and his best energies 
have been devoted to this, his chief enterprise. His 
business interests, however, are varied and exten- 
sive, and several corporations have received the 
benefit of his counsel in their boards of directors, 
among them the Niagara County Savings Bank, the 
Niagara Falls Power Co., and the Niagara Falls 
Water Works Co. He was at one time, also, vice 
president of the Cataract Bank. 

Military affairs have interested Mr. Pettebone 
greatly for a long time, and for six years, beginning 
in 188.5, he was first lieutenant of the 42d Separate 
Company at Niagara Falls. In 1891 he was made 
major and ins])ector of rille ])ractice of the 4th 



MEA O/' AF.ir VOKk—U'ESTERX SECT/ON 



3)i.' 



brigade, N. ('<., N. \., and since 1MJI4 he has l>cen 
inspector of the brigade. In political matters he is 
a Republican, and he was his |jarty's canditlate for 
supervisor several years ago : but he has never had 
the time or the inclination to interest himself greatly 
in |X)litics. He took an active part for many vears 
in the work of Rescue Hook \- I^inMcr 
Co., of which he was foreman from l.'^Tl 
to IXf^l, and president for several sue 
(Ceding years. Since 1HJS8 he has been 
junior warden of St. Peter's Kpiscojial 
Church at Niagara Falls. Of late he has 
Ibund it convenient as well as agreeable 
to spend his winters in Bufralo ; but he 
still maintains a summer home at Niag- 
ara Falls, and is bound to the smaller 
city by many social as well as business 
ties. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOG\ — 
Lauren II'. Pctlebone was l>oni al Lock 
port, X. v., June J!), ISJiS : 7i'as edu 
caleii in private schools in Buffalo : itur^ 
in the employ of the Niagara Falls Paper 
M/g. Co., 18G5—SS; married Larinia 
Porter Tincnsend of Niagara Falls, N. } '. , 
September li, ISSl ,• 7cias secretary and 
treasurer of the Petlebone Paper Co., 
ISSSSS, and president, lSSS-02 : has 
been vice president and director of the Pet- 
tebone- Cataract Paper Co. since its organ- 
ization in 180^. 



peter H. porter, ^>»e of the most 

eminent men ol .Niagara I'alls, and else 
where widely known and respected in 
western New York, is desceniled from a 
line of ancestors renowned in history. 
His father, Colonel Peter \. Porter, was 
killed at the battle of Cold Harbor 
while gallantly leading his regiment over the breast- 
works in a magnificent charge. Two nights later 
five brave men of his command rescued the body 
under the very breath of the enemy's guns, tlen- 
eral Peter Buel Porter, the grandfather of our pre.sent 
subject, was even more distinguished, attaining high 
honors in both civil and military life. He was 
elected to congress three times, and was the right 
arm of the .American forces in the battles of Fort 
Krie, Chippewa, and I.undy's l^ne. He was, in- 
deed, the chief figure in the great historic drama 
enacted in western New \'ork in the early decades 
of the century. 

With such inspiration in the [wst, Mr. Porter has 
found it easv to maintain the sj)lendor of the family 



name. Born in Niagara Falls shortly after the mid- 
ille of the century, he attended St. Paul's School, 
Concord, N. H., one of the best jircjiaratory .schools 
in the country. The course of study there was 
a|)|>ropriately followed by higher educational train- 
ing at Vale College, and by extended foreign travel 




thereafter. Since then he has made his residence 
continuously in Niagara Falls, and has had much to 
do with almost everything of imi>ortani e that has 
gone on there in the last twenty years. S. good 
deal of his time has neces.sarily been given to the 
care and dcvelo|>ment of the family estate, which 
originally indudeil much of the land now contained 
in the beautiful state reservation at Niagara. 

Mr. Porter h.TS been a prime mover in manv 
projects designed to promote the welfare of Niagara 
Falls, and his fellow-citi/.ens have freciuenlly sought 
his counsel and leadership in municipal matters. 
In IS.H,") he was elei ted a member of the state legis- 
lature, and was re-elected the next year. While in 
the assembly he introduced an«l effected the ]>.i.s.sage 



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MEN OF NEW YORK —WESTERN SECTION 



of the "Niagara Tunnel" bill providing for the 
Cyclopean undertakings of the Cataract Construction 
Co., and making possible the development of elec- 
trical energy in enormous volume from the Falls. 
Mr. Porter was deeply interested in this wonderful 
conquest of nature. He wrote the historical chapter 



October 10, ISoS ; graduated from Yale College in 
1874 '■ married Alice Adele Taylor in 1877 ; was 
inemhcr of the New York state assembly, 1886-87. 




PETER A. I'OKTER 

in the special number of Cassier's magazine describ- 
ing the tunnel scheme in all its aspects. 

As might be inferred from the last statement, Mr. 
Porter is a brilliant scholar, and is jjarticularly well 
versed in local history. He has made minute and 
painstaking researches among original documents 
relating to the past of the Niagara region, and is 
regarded as a high authority on ([uestions relating 
thereto, his special library on this subject being the 
most extensive in the country. His interest in such 
matters has doubtless been stimulated by the fact 
that his forefathers had so large a jmrt in the making 
of history along the Niagara frontier. 

PERSONAL CI Hi ONOL OGY — Peter Aii- 
srushis Porter was horn at Niasrara Falls, N. Y., 



artbur ScbOelII?Opf, mayor of the city of 
Niagara falls in 18510, belongs to a family that has 
been prominent in business circles in 
western New York for many years. His 
father, Jacob F. Schoellkopf, came to 
America more than half a century ago 
and settled in Buffalo, where Arthur was 
born in 1856. After some elementary 
education in private schools at home, 
the l)oy was sent to Germany at the age 
of nine, and for four years attended the 
academy at Kirchheim, his father's na- 
tive place, in the province of Wiirttem- 
berg. Returning to Buffalo in 1869, he 
received further education at St. Joseph's 
College, and then took a course at Bry- 
ant & Stratton's Business College as a 
final preparation for active business life. 
In 1873 Mr. Schoellkopf left school, 
and devoted the next four years to ac- 
quiring a thorough practical knowledge 
of the milling trade in the North Buffalo 
and Frontier mills, operated at first by 
Thornton & Chester and later by Schoell- 
kopf & Mathews. In 1877 his father, 
with A. M. Chesbrough, bought the 
property of the Hydraulic canal at Niag- 
ara Falls, and Mr. Schoellkopf was sent 
thither to take charge of it, and to assist 
in the erection thereon of the Niagara 
Flouring Mills, of which he became local 
manager. These mills are among the 
largest in western New York, having a 
capacity of 2000 barrels daily. In 1878 
the Niagara Falls Hydraulic: Power & 
Mfg. Co. was organized to develop the Hydraulic 
canal, and to fiirnish water power for other mills in 
the vicinity. Jacob F. Schoellkopf was president of 
the company, and Arthur Schoellkopf became its 
secretary and treasurer and general manager, and has 
held these positions ever since. 

In addition to the business interests outlined 
above, Mr. Schoellkopf is actively connected with 
other enler]jrises so many and varied that it is 
])Ossible in a brief sketch merely to give a list of 
them. He is president of the Park Theater Co. ; 
vice president of the Cliff Paper Co.; secretary and 
treasurer of the International Hotel Co. and of the 
Niagara Falls Brewing Co.; a director of the New 
York Mutual Sa\ini;s and Loan .Association, and 



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367 



president of the local branch ; president of the 
Power City Hank ; a director of the IJank of 
Niagara ; and a trustee of the Niagara County Sav- 
ings Hank. He built the first street railway in 
Niagara Falls, managed it for seven years, and 
established it on a (xiying basis. The man who has 
made such a record at forty years of age must possess 
unusual ability and a character that inspires the con- 
fidence of others. Mr. Schoellkopfs success may 
be a.scribed to a happy combination of the i)ro- 
gressive spirit of the native .American with the 
habits of industry anil a|)plication inherited from his 
Cerman ancestors. 

In |)olitical belief Mr. Schoellkopf is a Repub- 
lican ; but the positions of responsibility to whi( h 
he has been called have come to him, not as a \)o\\- 
tician, but as a jiublic-spirited citizen in whose 
sound judgment and uncpiestioned integ- 
rity his fellow-citizens could rely. He 
was one of the first .sewer commissioners 
of the village of Niagara Falls, and has 
been a commissioner of public works 
ever since the organization of the com- 
munity as a city. His election to the 
mayor's chair took place in .March, IHDO, 
and his administration of the office was 
most business-like and thorough. 

A man of Mr. Schoellkoijfs impor- 
tance in business and jniblic life natur- 
ally becomes interested in all the com- 
plex ilevelopments of modern existence. 
Mr. Schoellkopf belongs to Niagara 
Frontier Lodge, No. i'.VI, F. & .V. .\I., 
is a Knight Temijlar and a Noble of the 
Mystic Shrine, and I^xalted Ruler of 
lodge No. .•]4(i, B. 1'. (). E. He is a 
member and trustee of the First Presby- 
terian Church of Niagara Falls, and vice 
president of the city's Chamber of Com- 
merce. He has membership in the V.Ui- 
cott Club, Huflalo. 

PERSOX.4L CHRONOLOGY — 
Arthur Schofllkopf 7t'<i.< horn at IhiffaU> 
June II, IS-'iO : Toas eduealed in Buffah 
ami in Germany : learned the miller's 
trade in Buffalo, ]S7-i-77 ; married /essie 
Gluck of Xiai^ara Falls, N. Y. , October 
hi, 1SI>0 : has heen local mana^^er of the 
Niagara Flouring Afills since 1S77, and 
secretary and treasurer and manager of 
the Niagara Falls Hydraulic Pinoer ^ Affg- Co 
since 1S7S, and is also an officer in many other com 
mercial and financial organizations in Niagara Falls . 
H'as elected mayor of .Xiagara Falls in Lf.OtJ. 



lUllIlir' !!.■>. ecnnailt is descended from 
Siottish anccNir), and may have acipiired thence 
his sturdy determination and strength of character. 
His grandfather, a full-blooded Scotchman, entered 
the revolutionary army at the age of eighteen, and 
w;ls present at West Point at the time of Henedii I 
.Xrnold's trea.son. Notwithstanding det ided draw- 
backs in his early surroundings, Mr. 'I'ennant, by 
untiring energy and perseverance, has placed him- 
self in the ranks of the prominent lawyers anil busi- 
ness men of western New \'ork. 

His early life was spent on a L'haulauijua-county 
farm, and his education began at the age of fourteen 
at the district .school. This continued for four years, 
about twelve weeks each year, and at the end of 
that time his lather deemed his tuition complete. 
Hut the son had a far different ambition — that of 




. ( A' THl K SCHOF.I. I. KOPI- 



obtaining a fair education — and, with the same 
determination that has characterized his subse(iuent 
career, he proceeded to achieve his pur|)ose. After 
much coaxing he obtained his father's consent to 



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MEN OF NEW YORK —WESTER X SECTION 



enter the Mayville Union School, five miles away, 
on condition that he should do " chores" at home 
night and morning, and walk to and from school. 
He remained at school in Mayville somewhat more 
than a year, and during nearly all of that time these 
difficult conditions were faithfully fulfilled, until he 




WILLIS II. TRXXAXr 

had traveled on foot over 17U0 miles between the 
farm and the Mayville schoolhouse. 

Having received a certificate to teach in the dis- 
trict schools, Mr. Tennant was so occupied for one 
winter. He then took a course in a business 
college at Painesville, Ohio, and the following 
December began the study of law. From the time 
he entered school at Mayville he was entirely 
dependent upon his own resources ; but these 
jjroved quite sufficient. He read law three years 
with a ])rominent attorney of Mayville, and paid for 
the ])rivilege by taking care of the office, and mak- 
ing himself generally useful there; while he earned 
his board during the entire time by working as 
porter and barn boy in a hotel. 



Mr. Tennant was admitted to the bar in January, 
1880. He began practice in Mayville the follow- 
ing summer, and has followed his calling there 
continuously since. In November, 1880, he was 
admitted to practice in the United States District 
Court, and in March, 1882, the same privilege 
was obtained in the United States Cir- 
( uit Court. .Among the important cases 
that he has successfully conducted was 
that of the town of Ellery against 
the board of supervisors of Chautauqua 
county. Its purpose was to review and 
correct the equalized valuations of the 
.several towns and cities of the county 
made by that board ; and the result was 
a reduction of §8,000,000 in the equal- 
ized valuations of the country towns, and 
a corresponding increase in the valua- 
tions of the cities of Jamestown and 
Dunkirk. Mr. Tennant has made a 
specially of corporation, real-estate, and 
investment law, and has an extensive 
and profitable practice. For several 
years he has been the general counsel for 
the F^quitable Aid Union, a fraternal 
benefit society that receives and dis- 
burses nearly $1,000,000 annually : he 
has charge of all its legal affairs in the 
United States. In 1892 he a.ssisted in 
organizing the State Bank of Brocton, 
and became its attorney. 

In 1889 Mr. Tennant became inter- 
ested in Buffalo real estate, and his 
investments, made with prudence and 
sound business judgment, have been 
uniformly successful. Since 1891 he has 
been a member of the Buffalo Real 
Estate Exchange. He took an active 
part in building the first electric railway 
between Buffalo and Tonawanda, in 1891. 

Mr. Tennant is a member of the Independent 
Order of Odd Fellows, and of other fraternal 
societies. In politics he is an ardent Republican, 
and has worked early and late to promote the 
political fortunes of his friends and party. He 
has always taken an active part in public aflfairs, has 
served for several years as a member of the May- 
ville board of education, and has been president of 
the village. Mayville owns and operates its own 
water and lighting systems, having a.ssumed the con- 
trol thereof largely through .Mr. Tennant's advocacy 
and leadership. 

.\lr. Tennant has barely reached the prime of 
life, and the projjhecy may .safely be made that 



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36«.l 



additional honors await him, and a position even 
higher than that already attained, in social, busi- 
ness, and |)rofessioiial life. 

PERSONAL CHRO.XOLOGY— Willh Half 
Tfnnant was boni at Cliaiitawiiia, N. Y. , Afril ^o, 
1S'>J^ ; 7t>iii ediicaltJ in diiliict schools and ihf May- 
Ti/lf(X. y. ) Union Sihool : nuis ailmitli-ii to llu bar 
in ISSI) : married Delimma I an I 'a//l.Yn/mrt;/i of 
Mayi'ille December 24, 1S84 ; has practiced law in 
Mavfille since ISSO : was elected president of the 
7'illa)^e of Mayrille in March, 1S!III. and supen'isor 
in February, 1807. 



Gcoroc Bouiiln? Emcrtsou «as iwn at 

AI>l)oll's L'orners, l-irie (oiinty. New York, in De- 
eemlier, 1X47. This little settlement is near Huf- 
falo, and Mr. Kmerson may fairly he deemed a 
HiilTalonian from the first, since he moved 
to the <ity in infancy, and has lived 
there ever since. His family history is 
interesting. His uncle, (General Mason 
Hrayman, was a ilistinguished officer 
in the Civil War, and was afterward 
governor of Idaho for several years. 
Nathaniel luiierson, the jjaternal grand- 
father of our present subjeii, settled in | 
Kast .Aurora, Krie cotinty, in 1X04; and | 
other members of the family al.so helped i 
to open up western New York to civiliza- 
tion. Lower down, the family tree is 
more interesting still, taking the investi- 
gator, by way of Bunker Hill and other 
famous scenes in colonial history, ba« k 
to the original immigrant in t'onnecticiit 
two and a half centuries ago. 

Mr. Kmerson began his edutation by 
entering public school No. 4 in 18").'!, 
and pa.ssed through the various grailes 
until he graduated from the HutTalo High 
School in July, 1M<)."!. .M'ter .some minor 
ilerkshi|>s he entered the service of the 
Central-Hudson railroad at Huffalo in 
May, 1874. He found the railroad call 
ing congenial, and remained with the 
com|)any in their freight dc|>artment at 
Buffalo anil Kast liufliilo until ()<tol>er, 
18X7. From .\pril, l.s.SH, until Decem- 
ber, 188J(, he was connected with the 
inspection bureau of the Central TratVu 
.\.s.sociation, with headi|uarters in Buf- 
falo, lie had a jKirt in the pre|>;iraliiin of the 
eleventh Cnited States census, serving as special 
agent of ilic census bureau for eleven months in 
ISlllMH. He supervised the gathering of statistics 



of the manufacturing industries in Buffalo an<l Tona- 
wanda. 

For the last few years Mr. Kmerson has tlevoted 
most of his time to political affairs and his duties as 
a public official. He has fre»|uently represented 
Republican voters at city, xs.sembly, and congres- 
sional conventions, and has twice been a delegate to 
state conventions. He was assistant se<relary of 
the Republican general committee of Krie county 
during the four years 18!I1-!I4, and was se< retary of 
the s;ime ( ommiltee in 1H!I.")-!I7. Since January 1, 
18!)4, he has been deputy clerk of the state senate 
at .Mlany. 

In social anil society matters Mr. Kmerson has 
been active. He has served the High School 
.Mumni A.s.sociation as vice jiresident, president, and 
cla.ss historian. He belongs to the Buffalo Society 




r.Eonf.K novai..is emhksox 

i)t .Natural Sciences, mil to the .Xmcru an .\< ademy 
of I'olitical and Social .Science, Philadelphia. Ik- 
is first viie president of the Independent Club of 
Buffalo, a |M)pid»r dining as.sociation. His interest 



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MEN OF XKIV VOKK—IVESTER.X SECT/OX 



in the cause of temperance is evident in the fact 
that he has served seven terms as presiding officer of 
a council of the Royal Templars of Tem|)erance, 
and was also on the executive committee of the 
(Irand Council of the order for seven years. He is 
fond of historic:al research, and is chairman of the 



of the Unitt'il States eeimis bureau, 1890-01 ; has 
been deputy elerk of the Ne7u York state senate since 
1894. 



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W 11. I.I. I M S. C,R.tTT.I.\ 



Indian-memorials committee of the Buffalo Histor- 
ical Society. He is one of the guarantee subscribers 
for the American Historical Review jjuljlished in 
Boston. He is a member of the Delaware Avenue 
Methodist Kpiscojjal Church, Buffalo, and of Wash- 
ington Lodge, No. 240, F. & A. M. 

PERS ONA L CHRONOL O G J'— George 
Douglas Emerson 7oas born at Abbott's Corners, 
N. v., December 4, 1847; was educated in Buffalo 
public schools, and graduated from the high school in 
186S ; married Susan K. Conain of Buffalo Decem- 
ber 11, 1872.; was connected with the freight depart- 
ment of the Central-Hudson railroad at Buffalo, 
187 4-81, nnd with the inspection bureau of the Cen- 
tral Traffic Association, 1888-89 ; was special agent 



MilUam S. (Brattan was born in Monroe 
county, Pennsylvania, about fifty years ago. He 
attended the district schools of his native 
town, and Blairstown ( N. J.) Seminary; 
but closed his books at the age of six- 
teen, and became an apprentice in the 
works of the Lackawanna Iron & Coal 
Co. at Scranton, Penn. In December, 
1864, he entered the service of the Del- 
aware, Lackawanna & ^\'estern Railroad 
Co. as a clerk in their coal office. He 
remained with the Lackawanna company 
until March, 1870, when he engaged 
with David C. Henderson and went to 
Westfield, Mass., to build the Holyoke 
cV Westfield railroad. In 1871-72 he 
built a part of the Greenwood Lake rail- 
road in New Jersey, and a dam and 
bridge for the Lackawanna railroad at 
Montclair, N. J. In February, 1873, he 
began work on the " Fourth avenue im- 
provement " in New York city. In 
January, 1875, he opened a quarry at 
Randolph, N. Y., and quarried the stone 
needed for a bridge acro.ss the Hacken- 
sack river. In September, 1877, he 
made a contract to build the stone foun- 
dation for the steel works at Pompton, 
\. J. In 1878, the year the New York 
elevated railroads were first operated, he 
worked for the company as a foreman 
mason. The next year he acted as 
assistant to the superintendent of the 
Brighton Beach railroad ; and in Janu- 
ary, 1879, he returned to the elevated 
railroad company as dispatcher. 

The business of a contractor, however, was more 
to Mr. Crattan's liking than railroad operating ; and 
in July, 1880, he made an engagement with the 
contracting firm of Smith & Ripley, taking charge 
for them of eighteen miles of work on the New 
Haven & Northampton railroad. A year later he 
was sent to Cenesee county, New York, to supervise 
the construction of six miles of road for the Lacka- 
wanna company. In December, 1881, he went to 
Buffalo to do some masonry for the firm of Smith, 
Ripley & Andrews ; and after that he continued his 
acquaintance with western New York by overseeing 
the construction of the West Shore road through a 
part of V.r'n: county. 



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Since then the story of Mr. CIrattan's career is 
little more than a record of repeateil successes as a 
general contractor. In Ai)ril, 1HK;{, he made an 
important contract with the Delaware, l.ackawanna 
(S; Western railroad providing for the construction at 
Buffalo and Kast Hufialo of sho|>s, coaling stations, 
a trestle at Krie street, and freight houses at the foot 
of Main street. In Kebruary, IHHJ, Mr. (Jrattan 
huilt the I jckawanna trestle at Cheektowaga, near 
Uuffalo, the largest coal trestle in existence at that 
time. The success of these independent ventures 
and the magnitude of his oiicrations inducetl Mr. 
Orattan to seek iwrtnershij) assistance ; and in Janu- 
ary, 1888, accordingly, he formed with Alva M. 
Jennings the t"irm of (Irattan &: Jennings. The 
partnership has l)cen maintained ever since, and the 
firm has taken a high stand among the general i on- 
tractors of the «ountry. .\ complete 
account of their business during the last 
nine years would give one a fair idea of 
the building conditions of western New 
York in that period. The work of the 
firm covers a wide range, and includes 
pile driving, dock building, excavating 
and concreting for stru( tural founfiations. 
large buildings re(Hiiring fine finish, and 
general masonry. In addition to these 
styles of contracting, they do a good 
deal of special work for rail roatis, making 
( ulverts, bridge approa( hes and founda- 
tions, concrete engine beds, and the like, 
(irattan &: Jennings have executed .sev- 
eral large construction contrails in a 
remarkably short lime. In IHiKi, for 
example, on a contract with the Krie 
railroad, they took tlown an old coal tres- 
tle on the Blackwell canal, and erected 
in its place in sixty <lays, with lumber 
brought from (leorgia, a new trestle con- 
taining about 2,">l((l,0(l<l feet board meas- 
ure of lumber and 2H0() oak piles. 

Mr. (Irattan has always been a consist- 
ent Republican voter, but has never 
cared to hold public office. In Decem- 
ber, 18!tG, however. Mayor Jewell ap- 
|)ointed him one of the three fire com- 
missioners of Buflalo, and he is now 
liischarging <a|>;il>ly the duties of that 
office. The term runs six years from 
December 1, IXilH. 

PF./iSOX.4L CHROXOLOGY— Milham S. 
ii rattan ~u>as horn at Shofmakcr' i, Ptnn., June S, 
ISJ^tl ; 7i>as filucalfd in iilstrl(t sc/uo/s ani H/airstirJon 
( X. /. ) Sf/ninarv : loas in tlu fmf>loy of the Lacka- 



luanna Iron ir" Con/ Co., and the De/aioarf, Lacka- 
wanna vi" ll'citi-rn Railroad Co. , at Siranton, /'rnn. , 
lStlJ-7u ; married Amelia C. Miekem oj J/ewitt, 
X. _/. , August •iO, 1S17 : had charge of various rail- 
road and other contracts in .\fassachusetts, Xeic Jer- 
sey, and loestern Xno York, ISln-S-i ; has done a 
general contracting business in Buffalo since IHS-t. 
••• 

/D. %. tiCillV. reiently appointed by Mayor 
Jewell of BuHaiu mie of the comnii.ssioners of public 
works of that city, was born in HulTalo in Novem- 
ber, 1H.")!I. Me attended public schools until he 
was fifteen years old, but closed his books then in 
order to satisfy his desire for a business career. 
I-".ntering the service, accordingly, of Leonard Hink- 
ley, who conducteii a general store at the i orner of 
Niagara street and Forest avenue, Buffalo, young 




M. I IIIIM V 

Mealy learned the rudiments ol businc>^ m the 
thorough wav |>ossible in such an establishment. 
Me had not been in business more than a year, 
however, before he .s;iw that even a commercial 



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career demanded considerabl)' more education than 
he had yet obtained. He changed his plans abruptly, 
therefore, entering St. Joseph's College and study- 
ing there three years — lS7o-7.3. 

-Making a fresh start in IXTti with an intellectual 
equiimient much broader than before, Mr. Healy 
went to work for Pratt & Co., Buffalo. He remained 
with this famous concern until 1X7^*, when a favor- 
able chance came to go into business with his 
brothers, in the firm of P. & M. Healy. They 
conducted a flourishing trade in groceries, meats, 
hardware, glass, etc., until February, 1895, when 
the business was divided, and a new firm, .styled B. 
J. & M. J. Healy, w^as formed. This concern has 
also prospered markedly, and the Healy brothers 
may be said to control a large part of the trade in 
their line in the section of Buffalo known as Black 
Rock. Besides conducting a large retail business, 
they are the wholesale representatives of the Niagara 
Flouring Mills, the Akron Flouring Mills, and the 
Xew York Rubber Paint Co. The success of the 
business is due largely to the energy, long e.vperi- 
ence, and general ability of M. J. Healy. 

For several years Mr. Healy has taken an active 
interest in political affairs, and has had much influ- 
ence with the local leaders of the Democratic party. 
He held no public office, however, until January, 
1897, when he was appointed commissioner of pub- 
lic works for the four years 1897-1900. Mayor 
Jewett's selection was regarded with general satisfac- 
tion, and it was felt that Mr. Healy would bring 
to the duties of his office excellent judgment and 
unusual executive ability. 

Mr. Healy's capacity in Ijusincss affairs has been 
recognized by various associations that have sought 
his guidance. He is a director, for example, of the 
Irish-American Savings & Loan Association of Buf- 
falo, a stockholder in the Niagara Bank of Buffalo, 
and first vice president of the Black Rock Business 
Men's Association. He is president of St. Joseph's 
College Alumni Association, a director of the 
Knights of Colimibus, and an active member of 
various other fraternal and social organizations. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G Y— Michael John 
Healy was born at Biiffa/o Nm'einber J, 1850 ; teas 
educated in public schools and St. Joseph's College, 
Buffalo ; teas in the employ of Pratt &= Co. , 1876-78 ; 
married Elizabeth JFarner of Buffalo February 9, 
1807 : was appointed commissioner of public works of 
Buffalo for the term 1807-1900 ; has carried on a 
grocery and meat business at Black Rock since 1878. 



IRobCrt 1l\0^matl 1I3CffOr^, widely known in 
the liusiness and political circles of western New 



York, was born in Buffalo in 1845. He obtained 
his education in his native city, attending private 
and public schools and Bryant & Stratton's Business 
College. Rea.sonably well equipped in that way for 
a commercial career, he became a clerk at the age 
of seventeen in a wholesale salt and cement house. 
After remaining with this concern a short time, and 
serving as a clerk about a year in the canal-collec- 
tor's office, he formed a partnership in 18(55 with 
E. E. Hazard to conduct a coal business. Mr. 
Hefford was then only twenty years old, and he has 
been connected with the coal industry ever since. 
The firm of F". E. Hazard & Co. carried on a 
flourishing trade until 1871, when Mr. Hefford suc- 
ceeded to the business, and conducted operations 
on his own account. In recent years his business 
has resolved itself largely into the shipjiing and 
forwarding of coal ; and he has had an imjjortant 
part in making Buffalo one of the greatest coal 
markets in the world. 

Though Mr. Hefford has been strikingly success- 
ful as a business man, he has attained even more 
distinction in public life. He began to interest 
himself in political matters in early manhood, serv- 
ing as alderman from the 2d ward of Buffalo nearly 
twenty years ago. He took high rank at once in 
the municipal legislature, and was elected thereto 
for three consecutive terms. He acted as president 
of the common council during the last two years, 
and as president of the board of health during a 
part of his service. He was conscientious and 
aggressive, and especially distinguished himself in 
opposing the notorious street - cleaning contract 
which was vetoed by Mayor Cleveland, and which 
indirectly started Cleveland on his way to Albany 
and Washington. In January, 18<s;i, Mr. Hefford 
was sufficiently prominent in the Republican party 
to receive the nomination for the Buffalo mayoralty 
when the vacancy caused by Cleveland's election as 
governor had to be filled ; but John B. Manning, 
the Democratic candidate, was elected. 

Mr. Hefford has always been a strong su|)])orter 
of the Erie canal, and has done a good deal to 
maintain and improve that highway of commerce. 
He is chairman of the executive canal committee 
of the state, which is composed of representatives 
from the important commercial organizations of 
New York, and which carried through the consti- 
tutional con\cntion of 1X94 and the legislature of 
liSi)5 the §9,000,000 canal-improvement appropria- 
tion. The canal committee also did efficient work 
among the jjcople at large, and was the chief agency 
in effecting the a])proval of the measure liy the 
voters at the elections of l.sill and 1S95. 



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37."? 



In December. !«!•"), Mayor Jewelt of Ruffalo 
a|)|>ointed Mr. HelTord a commissioner of piihlic 
works, and the ])ress of the city, without regard to 
|jarty, warmly commended the appointment. There 
was general regret when the fait transpired that Mr. 
Hefford's private business was sometimes concerned 
with munici|>al contniits, and that he 
did not think it proper under the cir- 
cumstances to accept the ajjpointment. 

Mr. Hefford has lately been made a 
member of the New York state commis- 
sion to the Tennes-see Centennial Kx|K) 
sition. 

The list of offices in [larty organiza- 
tions held by Mr. Hefford is almost as 
long xs his list of public |)ositions. He 
h;Ls been one of the retogni/ed leaders 
of the Republican jjarty in western New 
York for many years. He has been a 
member of the Re|)ublican general com- 
mittee .several times, anil was ( hairman 
of the county committee in If^So-Xd. 
In IMJST he wa.s made the first jiresident 
of the Republican League of the State of 
.New York, and was re-elected in IXHX. 
He was a member of the executive com- 
mittee of the state league for several 
years, and was vice president of the Na- 
tional Re|)ublican League during the 
years lXHIt-*l."{. He is now a member 
of the Buffalo Republican League and o\ 
the State Republican League. 

Mr. Hefford has naturally been promi- 
nent in the social life of Buffalo. He 
is chairman of the board of trustees of 
the hirst Baptist t'hurch, a life member 
of the Buffalo Library, and first vice 
president of the Buffalo Club. He was 
|)resident of the Buffalo Merchants' l'".x- 
change and of the Board of Trade for the three 
tenns included in the years 1S!)-|-!IK : he was iinani- 
mouslv elected for the last two terms. 

PERSOXAL C IfROXOl. OG ) '— Rolurt Ro,/- 
man /feffoni 7i'ii< born at Huffitlo Fthniary J.'i, ISIf't: 
was ediicaUd in Ihiffalo schools ; 7t'as clerk in a 
wholfsaU house in Ihiffalo, lS<i2-tt-i, ami in the canal- 
collector'' s office in lS<iJ^ : married Harriet Rosalia 
Whittaker of Catskill, X. Y., January J, , ISTO ; nuts 
alderman from the 2d 7i>ard, Buffalo. lS~!i-}<i, an I 
president of the common council, IHSSSlf : was presi- 
dent of the Republican Lea^^ue of the State of Xeiv 
York, 18S7-^S, and vice president of the Xational 
Republican Leai^ue, lSS!>—f>S ; 7t>as president of the 
Ihilfalo Merchants' ExchaUi^e and nl' the Itnar,! of 



Trade, 18!)i-0(l ; has been enx'ax'ed in the coal trade 
in Buffalo since 18<:'i 

30bU C. 3C\VCtt, the founder of the great 
maiuifai turing iuiii|i.iiiy in Buffalo that bears his 
name, was born in Cayuga county. New Yoilc, 




kouhkt KoiKMis /iiai-ottft 

February 2, lf<20. Central New York was not then 
ilotted with schools of every grade, and Mr. Jewett 
was unable to obtain much education Spending 
his summers on the farm with his father, he attended 
district st hools during the winter, alternating work 
and study in this way until he was .seventeen years 
old. He then made a start in the outer world by 
changing his residence to .\nn Arbor, Miih., where 
his brother Samuel was engageil in business. Mr. 
Jewett went to work in his brother's store, and 
showed such aptitude for business that he was soon 
taken into the firm. By far the most inijiortant 
thing that happened to him in .Ann .\rbor was his 
meeting with Miss I'riscilla Boardman in December, 
1X4(1 Thi> ;u c|iiaint.iH( r ripcnt-d into courtship. 



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MEX OF NEW YORK— WESTERN SECT/ON 



and the courtship cuhiiinated in marriage on Mr. 
Jewett's birthday in 1843. Miss Boardman was 
then in her seventeenth year only, hut her strong 
and lovely character was already well developed. 
She was a remarkable woman in many ways, and 
Mr. Jewett's great success in life was doubtless due 



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in a large degree to the splenilid intellectual and 
moral (jualities of his faithful wife. 

Soon after his marriage Mr. Jewett left .\nn 
.Arbor, and embarked in business on his own account 
in Albion, Mich. He remained there for several 
years, reaping a.s much success as could reasonably 
be expected in so small a place. The inevitable 
limitations of the town in a business way ultimately 
caused Mr. Jewett to seek the larger opportunities of 
a growing city ; and in October, 1«4!l, accordingly, 
he took up his residence in Buffalo. Setting up at 
once a small manufacturing plant, he turned all his 
energy and wonderful power of a|)|)lication upon the 
enterprise. For nearly forty years he gave himself 
u]) to the business, until he had made it one of the 



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great industries of the country. Refrigerators, 
water filters, and a multitude of other household 
utensils, have been distributed in enormous quanti- 
ties over every part of the United States and of 
some foreign lands, from the mammoth works of the 
John C Jewett Mfg. Co. Mr. Jewett, of course, 
did not build this magnificent commer- 
cial structure without substantial assist- 
ance — no man could have done that; 
but his was the dominating mind and 
guiding hand for many years. His 
sons, Edgar B. Jewett, the present presi- 
dent of the company, and Frederick A., 
the present treasurer, and his son-in-law, 
Risley Tucker, the secretary of the com- 
pany, have all grown up with the house, 
and have had an important part in the 
marvelous growth of the l)usiness. 

In January, 188(i, after having worked 
hard for many years — too hard for his 
own physical good — Mr. Jewett retired 
from the active cares of business life. 
In May of the ne.xt year he received a 
severe shock in the sudden death of his 
beloved consort. This blow .sapped his 
declining strength, and for the last few 
years ill health has forced him to live in 
l.os Angeles, southern California. Un- 
der the sunny skies of that favored clime 
he is quietly jmssing the closing years of 
a useful and honorable life. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G ) ' — 
John Cotton Jewett was born at Moraj'ia, 
N. V. , February 2, 1820 ; attended dis- 
trict schools ; marned Priscilla Boardman 
of Ann Arl'or, Mich., Feluiiary 2, ISJfS : 
engaged in business in J/ichigan, IS-i7— 
.'// ,■ established in Buffalo in 18J,!> the 
business aftenoards styled the John C. 
Jeiaett Mfg. Co., and actively carried on the same 
until 1885 : has lir'cd a retired life in southern Cali- 
fornia since 1888. 

JfavjettC U\CllV), one of the foremost citizens 
of Hamburg, \. V., and an able member of the 
bar, was born in the town of Boston, F>ie county, 
in 1.S4!I. He received a better education than most 
yoimg men brought up in the country are able to 
ac(|uirc. Attending first the common schools of 
Hamburg, he there prepared himself for a course at 
Aurora Academy, from which he graduated in 1872. 
This paved the way for additional training at Hamil- 
ton College, from which he received the degree of 
A. H. in l.S7(i, and that of A. M. in I.h7!I. This 



MEX OF XKII' YORK -H-ESTKNX SECr/OX 



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thorough education along general lines was fol- 
lowed by professional study ; and he was admitted 
to the bar in IXHl. 

I-ong before this date Mr. Kelly had attained 
marked success in a calling often niade the gateway 
to a legal career. After leaving college in ls7(> he 
obtained an a|>|)ointment as instructor in Circek an<l 
I-atin at the Tarrytown Institute, and taught for the 
next five years in the famous town by the Hudson. 
He decided, however, not to make teaching his life- 
work, but to practice law ; and with that end in 
view he devoted much of his time during his resi- 
dence in Tarrytown to legal study. .After gaining 
admission to the bar he thought it worth while to 
teach a little longer, and thus acquire sufficient 
capital to tide over the briefless period in almost 
every lawyer's early experience. He became prin- 
cipal of the Haml)urg .Academy, accord- 
ingly, holding the position during the 
school year 1><82-H.'i. The next year he 
began the practice of law at Hamburg. 

Mr. Kelly doubtless acted wisely in 
changing his vocation, though he thereby 
handicapped himself, so to speak, by 
several years' delay in the race for legal 
honors. He was thirty-five years old 
when he began to practice law, whereas 
the average attorney |)robably gets to 
work nearly a decade earlier. Mr. Kelly, 
however, was admirably et|uip])ed for 
rapid progress when he fmally opened 
an office among people who had known 
him all his life. Posses.sed of their good 
will in advance, he soon built up a sub- 
stantial clientage in Hamburg and the 
surrounding country ; and he has long 
enjoyed rather more than his share of the 
legal busines,s in his jart of the county. 
By the year 1«!(0 he had his country 
interests so well in hand that he resolved 
to open an office in ISuffalo, and carry 
on a city practice in addition to his out- 
side clientage. This ])lan worked suc- 
cessfully, ami since then Mr. Kelly has 
transacted a large volume of legal busi- 
ness through his offices in Buffalo and 
Hamburg. He continues to live in the 
latter town, but his professional work is 
becoming more important in the larger 
place. 

Mr. Kelly is a Democrat in his way of looking at 
political <|uestions, and has long been prominent in 
local public alTairs. He ha.s re|)resented the town 
of Hamburg on the l'>ie-< ounty board of super- 



visors for seven consecutive years ; and for three 
years, 1M!((I-!I2, he was chairman of the board. 
Taking special interest in the cause of education, ;ls 
might be expected from his early career as a teacher, 
he has done what he coidd to improve the school 
service of his community. He belongs to the 
Masonii- order, and to similar fraternal xssotiations. 
He is a member of the Presbyterian chiin h, and of 
the Delta Kap|>.'i l-'.|)silon college society. 

J'KRSOXAL CI I RON OL OG Y— Fayfllf Kelly 
7uas born at Boston, N. Y., June .>, ISJfO : f^rai/ii- 
aleil from Aurora Academy in IHl^, ami from 
Hamilton Collei^e, Clinton, X. Y., in 1S70 : taui^ht 
school, lS~(iS-i : was aJmitteJ to the bar in ISSl : 
marrieJ Katherine B. Keyes of llamburir, X. Y., 
Au\^ist Jf, ISSfl ; has practiced laic at Hamburg since 
ISSi, ami at Buffalo since ISOO. 




I iviTTf-: KHl.l.y 



30bll lUllC*. ' onductor of the Buffalo Sym- 
phouN ( In hcstra. and otherwise widely known in 
western New N'ork as a musician, was born in 
Hamburg, (iermanv, in < )ctober. 1><")!I. He is 



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commonly regarded as an out-and-out (lerman, Init is 
not really so. Though he is a native of a (lerman 
state, speaks German fluently, and has in great 
measure the ideas and instincts of the German 
people, yet genealogical analysis reduces the pure 
German element of his Mood to one quarter only. 




jon\ /. / 'M> 

His father was a Norwegian, while his mother was of 
combined Russian and (Jerman descent. 

Mr. Lund's father, who was a merchant, wished 
his son to enter the legal profession ; but the boy's 
instinct, inclining him strongly in the direction of 
music, had its way. His mother was a thorough 
musician, and encouraged her son to indulge his 
love of music. She became his first teacher, indeed, 
when he began the study of the ])iano at the age of 
six or seven. A few years later he became a pupil 
of Dinckler, remaining with him for seven years. 
Entering I.eipsic Conservatory at the age of seven- 
teen, he there enjoyed the tuition of such men as 
Keineike, Wenzel, O.scar Paul, Jadassohn, and K. 
I'. Kic hlcr, the famous com])oser of text-books on 



harmony. Mr. Lund graduated from Lei])sic in 
l.SJSO, having studied there the piano, violin, oboe, 
and organ, as well as harmony, counterpoint, and 
composition. L'pon leaving the conservatory Mr. 
Lund was apjiointed chorus master at the Opera 
House in Bremen ; and two years later he was 
advanced to the post of assistant conduc- 
tor. In 1888 he went to Stettin as con- 
ductor at the Opera House in that city. 

Mr. Lund came to this country in 
1884. Dr. Leopold Damrosch, conduc- 
tor at the Metropolitan Opera House in 
New York, went to Berlin in quest of 
an assistant. He wanted a young man 
thoroughly accpiainted with the musical 
dramas of Wagner. John Lund was 
recommended to him as exactly the man 
he sought. A little investigation showed 
that this was so, and Dr. Damro.sch en- 
gaged Mr. Lund as assistant conductor 
of the ( German opera in New York. 
.'\fter the death of Dr. Damrosch John 
Lund became the leader of Mr. Am- 
berg's forces in that manager's ill-starred 
attempt to produce German opera in 
op])osition to the Metropolitan Ojtera 
House. After a year with .Amberg and 
a short time in Germany, Mr. Lund 
accepted an offer to become director of 
the Rochester Liedertafel. He did not 
stay long, however, in the Flower Gity. 
The Buffalo Orpheus was looking for a 
director, and through William Steinway 
heard of Mr. Lund. A committee from 
the Orpheus society attended one of the 
Rochester concerts, and after the per- 
formance made a contract with Mr. Lund. 
That was in the spring of 1887. Dur- 
ing the following fall and winter the Buf- 
falo Symphony Orchestra was organized, and Mr. 
Lund was invited to become its conductor. The 
organization at that time consisted of thirty-three 
men, of whom several were amateurs. It was not 
luitil the fourth \ear of the orchestra's existence that 
an entire symphony was presented. By hartl and 
conscientious work Mr. Lund has made the organiza- 
tion favorably com])arable with any of similar size 
in the United States. His work with the Buffalo 
Orjiheus has likewise borne excellent fruit. In 1888 
he took the Maennerchor to Baltimore, where the 
best singing societies in the country competed ; and 
the Buffalo society won first ])rize in the second class. 
In New ^'ork, in 18!)."), the Buffalo organization 
won thin! pri/c in ihe first (lass. 



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Although Mr. Lund was educated in the strict 
classicism of the I.eipsic school, Mendelssohn rep- 
resenting the extreme limit in modern music, he is 
naturally lilieral in his musical tastes. His favorite 
composers are Wagner, Beethoven, 'I'schaikowsky, 
and Svendsen ; but a glance at the Symphony pro- 
grammes will show that he makes free use of the 
works of many other composers. Though Mr. l.unil 
is a young man, his com|)ositions are already con- 
siderable in number. Some of the more im|»orlant 
are the " Wanderer's Song," for male chorus and 
orchestra; "The Flowers' Revenge," acantata for 
mi.veil chorus, solos, and orchestra; "The llcrman 
War Song," for male chorus, solos, and orchestra; 
"Scene Amoureiise," for full orchestra; "In the 
darden," for string orchestra and harp. 

P/CRSO.y.-II. CHROXOLOGY — Johii Luiul 
was horn al Haml>ti>x, Gfnnaiiy, October 
20, 1859; stuiiied music under Dinckler, 
1S(1U-~IJ, and in the Leipsie Consenatory, 
1S7H-S0 ; was connected with the produc- 
tion of i^rand opera in Germany and A'tii' 
y'ori-, LSSOSO : married Ida Louise Ze/- 
ler of Buffalo in 188S : has been director 
of the Buffalo Orpheus, and of the Buffalo 
Symphony Orchestra, since tS87 ■ 

naoimaii Hi. /iDacI;, alitor and 

proprietor of the Buffalo Times, rfnd 
witicly known in western New V'ork from 
his prominence in political life, was 
born in West Williams, Ont., in !«.")(;. 
His family left Canada when he was still 
a child, and took up their residence in 
I'ontiac. Mich., in IStiH. There Mr. 
Mack became a clerk in a business house. 
Both the mercantile knowledge and the 
disciplinary training thus obtaineil were 
of great \alue in his imi)ortant business 
undertakings later in life. After remain- 
ing in I'ontiac four years, he availed 
himself of the greater opportunities of a 
large city by embarking in the advertis- 
ing business in Detroit and (.'hicago. 
This was his first exi)erience in news- 
paper work, and gave him an insight into 
a most important jart of the jiublishing 
business. 

In 1H74 Mr. .Mack established him.self 
in Buffalo. He had then been engaged 
in the advertising business two years, and was well 
acijuninted with many branches of the ditTii ult sub- 
ject. He continued, therefore, for several years to 
londiK t various advertising enterprises in Buffalo. 



Many of these ventures had to do with the press, 
and gave him considerable experience in actual 
news|)a|)er making, and by the year 1M78 he felt 
able to enter the journalistic world as a publisher. 
Establishing the Chautaui/ua Lake Gazette, atcord- 
ingly, at Jamestown, N. Y., he conducted the 
enterprise with fair success for some months ; but in 
l.s7il he received a favorable offer for the i>a]ier, 
and disposed of the properly. 

In September of the s;xme year Mr. Mack began 
his long career in Buffalo journalism by founding the 
SunJay Timet. For a while the printing was done 
oMt.siile the office, and not until IHM] was the first 
press purthased for the new japer ; while the first 
number of the Daily Times was issued December 
i:{, 1N«3. Since the latter date the jxiper has made 
marked progress in both cir« illation and advertising 




.\v»AM/(\ /• .\ftiK 

|iatronage. In l.SHd additional s|iare became neces- 
sijry for dis|)atching the enlarged volume of business ; 
and the Times building, at Nos. l!t.'J-l!t."> .Main street, 
was secured and oi i iipied. In June, 1HK7. a Hoc 



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perfecting press was placed in oi)eration ; in 1892 
another Hoe press, a counterpart of the first, was 
installed ; and in 1895 a tloss " three-decker" was 
added to the plant. In 1893 ten Merganthaler lino- 
type machines were set u]) in the composing room, 
superseding the old system of setting type by hand. 




D. NATII.WIEl. MCSAVCIITAN 

Until 1884 the Times was, independent in politics, 
hut in the presidential campaign of that year it came 
out strongly for Cleveland, and has ever since 
supported the regular Democratic nominees. Mr. 
Mack has been very active in political affairs person- 
ally as well as journalistically, and has had an 
important part in the counsels of the Democratic 
leaders. He has been a delegate to various local 
and state conventions. He was one of the alternates 
to the Democratic national convention of 1892, 
and was the New York member of the notification 
committee in that year. He represented his con- 
gressional district on the Democratic state committee 
for two terms, declining a third term. He was a 
delegate to the Democratic national convention of 



1<S9(), and was a member of the state committee in 
the presidential campaign of that year. He sup- 
ported Mr. Bryan vigorously, and enjoyed his con- 
fidence in a high degree. Mr. Mack, indeed, was 
probably the most prominent advocate of the 
"regular" Democracy in western New York, and 
thereby acquired great favor with those 
who believed in that cause. 

Mr. Mack is a member of the Buffalo, 
the EUicott, and the Pre.ss clubs, of the 
Orpheus and Liedertafel singing soci- 
eties, and of other social organizations. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY — 
Norman E. Mack was born al West Wil- 
liams, Out., July 24, 1856; was clerk if/ 
a store at Fontiac, Mich., 1868-72 ; en- 
gaged in the advertising business in Detroit 
and Chicago, 181 2-H, and in Buffalo, 
187^-78 ; married Harrettc B. Taggart 
of Buffalo December 22, 1891; estab- 
lished the ' ' Chautau(/ua Lake Gazette ' ' 
at JamestoKin, N. )'., /// 1878, and the 
Buffalo "Sunday Times" in 187!); qcas 
alternate delegate to the Democratic na- 
tional convention in 1892 and delegate in 
1896 ; has been editor and proprietor of 
the Buffalo ' ' Times ' ' since its establish- 
ment in 1883. 



S). IHatbauicl /IDclHaiuibtau 

was born in Worcester, Mass., less than 
thirty years ago. Before he was si.\ 
years old his parents moved to Auburn, 
N. Y., and the greater part of his life 
thus fiir has been spent in that pleasant 
little city. He attended the public 
.schools there, but com])leted his educa- 
tion at the academy in the neighboring 
town of Weedsport, whither his parents 
moved in 1.S82. After leaving school he spent 
about a year working at the shoemaker's trade, and 
was then employed as an accountant for two years, 
first with Tompkins & Horton and later with ¥. V>. 
Tonijikins. By this time he had become ambitious 
to study law, and in January, 1888, he entered the 
office of F. E. Cady, judge of the City Court of 
Auburn, as a student. He remained there three 
years, working as a bookkeeper evenings and at 
odd intervals as the e.xigencies of his financial con- 
dition recpiiretl. 

Admitted to the bar in March, 1891, Mr. Mc- 
Naughtan at once commenced the practice of his 
profession in the office of his former preceptor. 
Judge Cady; and in the following Dei ember he 



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opened an office in connection with John I). Teller, 
ex-surrogate of Cayuga county, with whom he 
became closely associated. After a few years, how- 
ever, he <le< ideii to seek a more extendeil fieltl of 
professional labor than Auburn could offer, and in 
June, 1H5I4, he moved to Buffalo. He spent the 
first year and a half there as man:iging clerk for 
[■'. M. Inglehart ; but in Fel)ruary, IMSMi, he ojiened 
an office on his own account. His succes.s in the 
|)ractice of law at Huftalo has been singularly rapid 
and sul)stantial. He was fortimate in having a 
chance to show his cajacity while with Mr. Ingle- 
hart, who entrusted most of his important work, and 
all of his court and litigated work, to Mr. .\lcNaugh- 
tan. Having estal)lished his reputation in this way, 
and shown his ability to hantlle complicated i>ieces 
of litigation, Mr. McNaughtan has obtained a cla.ss 
of business that does not commonly tall 
to the lot of young lawyers. From the 
outset of his career as an independent 
attorney he has been able to occupy 
him.self with interesting and important 
cases ; and his contested work has taken 
him almo.st exclusively into the higher 
and ai)pellatc courts. He has conducted 
these cases with so much ability, and has 
ol)tained a class of clients so substantial 
in character, that a high ])osition at the 
l)ar of Buffalo seems assured for him. 

Before taking up his residence in Buf- 
falo Mr. ,\l( .Naughtan interested himsell 
lonsiderably in the local i)olitics of 
.Auburn, where he did good work in the 
organization of (arty forces and the har- 
monizing of op|)Osing factions. He has 
never .sought nor dcsireil ]iulili( office, 
and has declined .such openings for 
|>olitical preferment as have been ten- 
dered to him. In December, 1X91, 
.Vdelbert V. Rich, distrit t attorney of 
Cayuga county, offered him the position 
of assistant di.strict attorney ; and in 
February, 1M94, he was nominated for 
justice of the (leace in Auburn, but did 
not accept the nomination. .\s yet he 
has taken no ai ti\c ]>an in |)ublic afTairs 
in Buffalo. 

PERSOXA I. CHROXOL OGY — 
D. Nallianiel MiXiiii)^htan loas horn at 
U'orifs/fr, A/itss., .'Ii/x'i/s/ J4' 1S<!!) : roiii 
filiicatfj ill Aulmrn (X. )'. ) ffiihlic schools and 
\\ 'ffihfHvt ( vV. Y. ) Acadetny : worked at the shoe- 
maker' s trade and as a hookkeefier in An hum, ISS'>- 
S7 : studied /aui, and u>as admitted to the har in 



ISfll : praetieed /aio at Auhurn, ISHl-!)^ ; married 
lilizaheth Manro of Auhurn Xin'emher ,'>, ISUJ^ : ivas 
nianax'ini; clerk in a law office in Buffalo, ISUJ^SMi .- 
has firacliced law in Buffalo since February, ISIHl. 



CbarlC6 XCl. /Killer enjoys in large measure 
the esteem and guod will of the people of Buffalo, 
where his name has been a hou.sehold word for 
more than a ipiarter of a i entury. He has been 
both a cause and a result of the < ity's progress, and 
his fame in the s|>ccial line in which he has won 
distinction has penetrated far beyond the state. In 
the livery and baggage business .Mr. .Miller has kept 
l>ace with improvements in the railway and steam- 
boat service. He has facilitated the movement of 
baggage and ijas.sengers, and remlered travel free 
from many of its besetting annoyances. He has 




ri/mils II Mil. I. EH 



established an industry employing hundreds cif men 
and operating a large ec|iiipment. 

Mr. Miller may be .said to have been to the man- 
ner born. His father, Jacob S. Miller, esiablished 



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in 1828 one of the first livery stables in Buffalo, sit- 
uated near the present Coal and Iron Exchange. 
Mr. Miller, senior, added to this business, in 1848, 
a line of omnibuses running from the foot of Main 
street to Cold Spring. Young Miller assisted his 
father in this business, and tells lo-day how he 
used to sell omnibus tickets for si.xpence apiece, or 
twenty for a dollar. Mr. Miller's reminiscences of 
those early days would make an interesting volume. 
He laughs as he tells of his father's prediction of 
ruin because the town council had pa.ssed an ordi- 
nance forbidding the blowing of the stage horn 
below Genesee street. On the death of his father, 
Charles W. succeeded to the business, though he 
was then only eighteen years of age. Five years 
later the Buffalo Street Railway Co. came into 
existence, and a new order of things arose. 

While possessed of more than average determina- 
tion, .Mr. Miller had too much sense to sit down, 
Indian-like, on the track of modern progress. He 
accepted the inevitable, and sold out his omnibus 
line to the railway company, which gladly made 
him superintendent. He remained with the com- 
pany four years, when his independent spirit asserted 
itself, and he resumed the coach and livery business. 
Eight years later he purchased the stables of Cheese- 
man & Dodge on Pearl street, and removed to that 
location. Buffalonians will recall the well-known 
structure, built in twenty-one days, in order to escape 
the operation of an impending law extending the 
fire limit against wooden buildings in the business 
part of Buffalo. Predictions were numerous that 
the structure would some day go up in smoke, 
and its many narrow escapes caused it to be 
known for years a.s "the only fireproof building 
in Buffalo." 

It was the year after this purcha.se that Mr. Miller 
began the coach and baggage-express business. He 
obtained from Commodore Vanderbilt the privilege 
of placing agents on the New York Central trains en- 
tering Buffalo ; and in time secured the same rights 
on all roads entering the city. Later he opened a 
union ticket office, where a traveler can purchase a 
ticket to any part of the United States, and have his 
baggage checked through to destination. Few cities 
can boast a similar convenience. As Buffalo con- 
tinued to grow, Mr. Miller opened an uptown stable 
on Delaware avenue, equipping it with the finest 
horses and carriages for jjublic use seen in the city up 
to that time. This stable Mr. Miller subsec|uently 
disposed of. As a citizen with proper pride in one 
of the noted residence avenues of the country, he 
appreciated the fact that the street should not be 
invaded for business purposes. Moreover, his many 



enterprises made it advisable to concentrate all 
departments under one roof. For this purjjose he 
built the magnificent stables on Huron street. This 
establishment he justly maintains to be one of the 
best appointed of its kind in the United States. 
Here all the repairing incident to his business is 
done by skillful employees ;. and Mr. Miller has 
facilities for turning out finished carriages if he saw 
fit to do so. 

.Mr. Miller's operations are not confined to Buf- 
falo. He is the senior partner in the Miller-Brun- 
dage Coach Co., which revolutionized the carriage 
service at Niagara Falls. Despite fierce opposition, 
this field was won from extortionate and irresjjonsible 
carriers. Mr. Miller furnishes also the transporta- 
tion equipment for the famous Ponce de Leon hotel 
at St. Augustine, Fla., and for the Bon Air hotel, 
Augusta, Ga. .An ade(|uate idea of the vast extent 
and proportions of his Inisiness may be obtained by 
a summary of his force and expenses. All told, he 
employs more than two hundred vehicles — coaches, 
victorias, coupes, omnibuses, and moving vans — over 
five hundred hor.ses, and nearly four hundred men. 
His pay roll amounts to not far from 84000 a 
month. It is said that Mr. Miller's entire plant 
could not be duplicated for less than half a million 
dollars. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL O G V— Charles W. 
Miller 7i'as born at Buffalo January 19, 18-17 ; was 
superintendent of the Buffalo Street Railway Co., 
1860-6 Jf ; married Louise L. Noxon in 18(J1 ; has 
carried on a general coach and livery business in Buf- 
falo since 186^, and has recently extended his opera- 
tions to Niagara Falls, Georgia, and Florida. 



jFrsnClS S. IROOt "as l>orn in Cayuga county. 
New \'ork, in l.S(J!l. He worked on his father's 
farm until he was twenty-one years old, attending 
district schools, however, in winter, and finally 
graduating from the literary department of the Port 
Byron Academy in 1889. The next year he went 
to Cornell. After taking a scientific and literary 
course for a year, he entered the law school, and 
graduated therefrom with the degree of LL. B. in 
1893. From the time he left home to go to college 
Mr. Root was dependent entirely on himself for 
the means of support. He was fortunate enough to 
obtain a state scholarship, which gave him free tui- 
tion ; and he worked in various ways during vacation 
time to defray the rest of his expenses. It is a 
remarkable fact, worthy of permanent record, that 
Mr. Root wa-s able to spend three years at Cornell 
at a total cost, including board, clothing, books, and 
everything else but tuition, of $540. In connection 



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with this fact it is interesting to note that he attained 
distinction in college in both the ways open to 
students — in scholarship and in athletics. His 
graduating thesis, entitled "A History of the Kvo- 
lution of the Modern I^w of Real Property," won 
the first prize in competition with a class of sixty- 
three members, and was afterward pub- 
lished in the New York Liiio firrirUK 
Mr. Root wa.s a member of the freshman 
crew that defeated C"olunibia at New 
London in ISitl, and the next year he 
was on the Cornell "varsity " crew. 

Having obtained at Ithaca an excel- 
lent training in the theory of law, Mr. 
Root rounded this out with jiractical 
work in the actual disjiatch of legal busi- 
ness. Kntering first the office of John 
1). Teller at .\uburn, N. Y., he after- 
ward continued his stuily in HufTalo with 
Wilcox & Miner and with Harvey 1.. 
Brown. Thus amply pre|)ared, he [WLssed 
the bar examinations e.i-sily at .Now York 
in January, 1M!(."). He then opened an 
office at Buffalo, and ha.s since followed 
his ])rofession in that city. He prac- 
ticed alone until .\pril 1, IHiH!, then 
associated himself for several months 
with James Harmon in the firm of Har- 
mon & Root, and since September 1, 
189(i, has carried on his work without 
jjartnership a.ssistance. 

Mr. Root has been greatly interested 
in politics and in various economic and 
sociological questions. He is an ardent 
advocate of civil-service reform, an in- 
come tax, state ownership of railroads 
and natural mono|)olies, direct legisla- 
tion, the single tax, and absolute free 
trade. In 1H1(."» he was the nominee of 
the I'eo])le's party for justice of the .Sujireme Court, 
and his nomination was endorsed by the Prohibition 
party. He was an enthusiastic supjiorter of Bryan 
and Sewall and the Chicago jdatform in the i)resi- 
denlial cami«ign of lH!Mi, and made a few speeches 
in behalf of the Democratic candidates. He is 
liberal in religious belief, and is a memlicr of the 
Unitarian church. 

PERS O XA L CHRO N OLOGY— /•nimis 
Sitinlon Root loits horn at Port Byron, N. }'. , Xirrnii- 
ber 4, 1869 : graduated from thf litfrary department 
of the Port Byron Academy in ISSO, and from the 
taw department of Cornell University in ISO.i : was 
admitted to the bar in Afanh. ISf).'>. and has practiced 
hui' since then in Buffalo. 



OSCiir JF. IPriCC is a true son of Jamestown, 
having liccii Imni there t"ifly-odd years ago, and 
having spent all his life there thus far. He may 
also be regarded, not less truly, as the father of 
the modern city of Jamestown, since to him more 
than to anv other one man must be a-scribeil the 




FRANCIS S. KOOT 

evolution of the place from the thriving village 
of a dozen years ago. 

Mr. Price attended the Jamestown schools and 
academies, and when his general education was 
completed he took up a course of law study. I'his 
legal knowledge has been of great service to him, 
both in his extensive real-estate dealings, and in his 
public duties as the chief executive officer of a new 
city, .\fter completing his law studies Mr. Price 
emliarked in the real-estate business, and in this field 
did good ser\ice to the lommunity. Jamestown 
well deserves the epithet of " City of Homes," and 
this is due in no small degree to Mr. Price's efforts. 
He has built hundreds of hou.ses, and placed them 
on the market on terms so easy that those who 



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wished to sec:ure homes have been enabled to do so ; 
while in many other cases he has sold the land, and 
advanced money for those who wished to build for 
themselves. 

In addition to this very practical work for the 
building up of the city, Mr. Price has always taken 




t)sc.-iA' /■: I'Rici-: 

an active part in pui)li(' affairs, fur whi< h his charac- 
ter, at once progressive and conservative, renders 
him peculiarly well fitted. For a number of years he 
served as a member of the village board of tnistees, 
and in 1882 and 188.3 he was the president of the 
board. His townspeople were not slow in recogniz- 
ing his ability for ]jublic affairs and his devotion to 
their interests, and in 1888 and 1884 they sent him 
to Albany as their representative in the state legis- 
lature. 

.About this time Mr. Price became imjjressed with 
the fact that Jamestown had outgrown the conditions 
of a village, and was prepared to take its place 
among the cities of the state. He set himself to 
educate public oi>inion in this reganl, and to over- 



come the prejudices of those ultra-conservatives who 
are never ready for a change. Finally, in February, 
1885, a petition was presented to the village trustees 
urging them to call a meeting of citizens to consider 
the proposal for a city charter. The meeting was 
called, and a committee of ten was appointed to 
draft the new charter. Mr. Price was a 
member of this committee, and had a 
large part in preparing the charter and 
in securing its passage by the legislature a 
year later. When the first election of city 
officers was held, April 13, 1886, Mr. 
Price was elected mayor : and he held that 
trying and responsible position for four 
consecutive terms. During that time 
many problems had to be solved by the 
new city. The questions of paving, 
electric lighting, street railroads, water, 
and sewers all demanded attention ; and 
in every case Mayor Price took his stand 
on the side of the people, and secured 
for them an economical and satisfactory 
adjustment of the matter under consider- 
ation. During all the years of his ad- 
ministration no whisper of scandal was 
ever breathed against the city govern- 
ment, no accu.sation of political trickery 
was ever dreamed of; and when, at the 
close of his fourth term of office, he 
refused to allow his name to be used a.s 
a candidate for re-election, he left a 
record for unselfish devotion to the pub- 
lic welfare that has seldom been equaled 
in the annals of city government. So 
great was his popularity that, after an 
interval of two years, he was again called 
to preside over the affairs of the city, 
and in April, 189(5, he began his fifth 
term as mayor of Jamestown. 
In ]irivate as in public life Mr. Price jjo.sses-ses a 
manner unassuming and courteous, yet dignified 
withal. His fellow-citizens know him as a man 
whose sound and accurate Judgment can be relied 
upon, and whose rare kindliness of heart makes him 
the friend of all who need his aid. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Oscar F. 
Price was born a/ Jamestoicii, N. F. , September 11, 
IS-'fO : Teas educated in James tcnvn schools and acade- 
mies ; was a member of the /loard of trustees of James- 
toicmfor several years, and seiTcd as president of the 
board, 1882-8-i ; Jcas member of the state assemli/y, 
1883-84 ; was the first mayor of Jamesto^vn, hold- 
ing the office, 1886-9 J^, and was elected again in 
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E^\va^^ a. SlunUCr, for twenty years (wst 
prcsiiicnt of the First National Hank of U'estfield, 
N. Y., and its successor, the National Hank of West- 
field, was l)orn in the town of Aurora, Mric county, 
in 1H41. His father, who was a Presbyterian clergy- 
man at that time, had moved to western New York 
from Oneida tounty five years earlier, and the family 
another generation back was to he found in Berk- 
shire county, Massachusetts. When Mr. Skinner 
was thirteen years old his father moved to Westfield, 
to fill the position of a bank cashier. Between that 
date, 1M.")4, and the outbreak of the Civil \\ar, Mr. 
Skinner spent most of his time aciiuiring an educa- 
tion in the Westfield Academy. 

In t)ctober, 1861, the !Uh regiment. New York 
volunteer cavalry, was organized in Chaiitaiii|ua and 
(.'attaraugus counties, and was rendezvoused at West- 
field ; and in November, l.S(il, while 
still under age, Mr. Skinner entered the 
service. In the same month his regi- 
ment joined Mct'lellan'sarmy near Wash- 
ington, and served there and on the 
Peninsula, unmounted, until May, 18K2. 
Having returned to Washington at that 
time to be mounted and eiiui|)])etl, the 
regiment was assigned to Siegel's corjts 
under Pope's general command in July, 
1H()2, and [articipated in the unsatisfac- 
tory camitaign of that summer. After 
I'ope's retreat to Wa.shington Mr. Skin- 
ner's regiment became a i«rt of the 
cavalry corps of the Army of the Poto- 
mac, and served therewith throughout 
the cam)jaign of 'ti8 in Virginia, Mary- 
land, and Pennsylvania. Karly in his 
army life Mr. Skinner was detailed to 
act as regimental (juartermaster, and was 
soon commissioned such ; and during 
much of the time he discharged the 
duties of brigade quartermaster. He 
left the service, owing to ill health, in 
March, lH(i4. 

In the fall of lHfi4 the First National 
Bank of Westfield was organized, and 
Mr. Skinner, becoming a.ssistant cashier 
of the institution, began his long career 
as a banker. The fact that he had made 
no mistake in choosing his vocation was 
soon ap|)arent, and he was promoted in 
a few years to the position of cashier. 
In 1H70, however, consistently with the unrest of 
youth, he decided to try his fortunes beyond the 
Mississii)pi. Kansas was then one of the most jirom- 
ising slates of the West, and in the > il\ of Ottawa 



Mr. Skinner assisted in organizing the First Na- 
tional Bank. He remained in Kansas several years, 
and then, after si>ending some months in Kurojie. 
once more took up his residence in Westfield, in the 
summer of 1M74, becoming vice president of the 
First National Bank, and taking an active jjart in 
its management. Two years later his father died, 
and he siiiceeded him in the presidency of the 
bank Since then Mr. Skinner has remaine<l at the 
head of the institution, and has attained a high 
reinitation as a progressive and conservative Iwnker. 
.\side from his l)anking interests Mr. Skinner's 
chief business connet tion has been with the fraternal 
organi/.ation known as the Royal .\rcaniim. Joining 
this society in IHT'^, he |(artici|)ated in the organiza- 
tion of the (Irand touncil of the State of New York 
in 1«71l, and was sent ;us its first representative to 




F.ltU.tKn I. SA'/W/:// 

the Supreme Council of the order. In IMHO he was 
elected Supreme Treasurer, and has held the ])Os\- 
tion continuously since. The imiwrtanre of the 
office mav be understood from the statement that 



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the Royal Arcanum now has 190,000 members, dis- 
burses annually five million dollars, and has paid in 
death claims since its organization nearly forty mil- 
lion dollars. 

In the social life of Weslfield Mr. Skinner has 
naturally been prominent. He has long been a 
member of the Presbyterian Church there. He be- 
longs to the Grand Army of the Republic, and to 
the Loyal Legion. He is a firm believer in the 
])rinciples of the Republican party, but has held no 
jjolitical ofifice except that of supervisor of the town 
of Westfield for three years. 

FEJi S ON A L CHR ONOL O G Y— Eihvard 
Alburn Skinner was born at Griffin^ s Mills, Erie 
eounty, N. Y., May 10, 1841: lifds educated at West- 
field (iV. K ) Academy ; served in the Union army, 
1861— 6 Jf,- was assistant cashier and cashier of the 
First National Bank of Westfield, 1864.-70 ; engaged 
in hanking at Ottawa, Kans., 1870-73 ; married 
Frances M. Barger of Westfield October 20, 1864, 
who died June 16, 1872 ; married Augusta Wheeler 
of FortT'ille, N. Y. , August 10, 1874 : became vice 
president of the First National Bank of Westfield in 
1874, ^f"f ^"'^' ^"'''" /resident of that bank and its 
successor, the National Bank of Westfield, since 1876 : 
has been Supreme Treasurer of the Royal Arcanum 
since 1880. 

HrtbUr C. '^KIla^C has won success in both 
law and commercial life. He possesses the capacity, 
the activity, and the resolution so characteristic of 
the modern man of affairs. His experience as a 
lawyer and busine.ss man has been diversified, and 
of an intensely practical kind. He has been a pro- 
moter of new enterprises, an encourager and a sup- 
porter of mechanical skill and ingenuity. At the 
same time he has not allowed private affairs to 
absorb all his attention, but has been actively en- 
gaged in political and public matters that demand 
the participation of all patriotic citizens. 

Mr. Wade is a native of Chautauipia county, and 
attended its e.xcellent district schools, receiving 
higher education at Ellington Academy and Cham- 
berlain Institute. He early became desirous of 
making the law his ])rofession, and pursued a course 
of study at the famous Albany Law School, from 
which he graduated twenty years ago. He was ad- 
mitted to the bar of the Supreme Court in 1877, 
and opened an office at Ellington, N. Y., the same 
year, becoming a partner of Theodore A. Case of 
that town, for many years a prominent lawyer and 
citizen of western New York. This connection 
lasted for six years, and was valuable to Mr. Wade 
in bringing him into contact with a greater volume 



of business than ordinarily falls to the lot of a 
beginner in the law. In 1888 the partnership was 
dissolved, and he associated himself with Orsell 
Cook and Jerome B. Fisher of Jamestown, N. Y., 
with whom he continued to practice until the death 
of Judge Cook twelve years later. Since then his 
partners have been Mr. Fisher and M. R. Stevenson. 
Mr. Wade's legal career has been marked by care- 
fiil study of his cases, elaborate preparation for 
trial, and faithfulness to the interests of his clients. 
Since the days of Madison Burnell the Chautauipia- 
coimty bar has not known an abler cross-examiner 
or a more successful advocate than he. In these 
(jualities he stands conspicuous among the foremost 
lawyers of western New York. His well-known 
talent for investigation and his practical knowledge 
of street-railway management, commended him to 
the legislative committee that investigated the sur- 
face and elevated railways of the state in the sum- 
mer and fall of 1895 ; and his skillful and thorough 
conduct of the investigations elicited the cordial com- 
mendation of the ablest lawyers throughout the state. 

Mr. Wade's business enterprises have lieenmainl) 
in the line of manufacturing and transportation. 
He is president of the Fenton Metallic Mfg. Co., 
the Jamestown Felt Mills, the Ulster Oil Co., and 
the United States Voting Machine Co. He is sec- 
retary of the Waverly, Sayre & .-Athens Traction 
Co., and secretary and treasurer of the Chautauqua 
Steamboat Co. The mere recital of the names of 
these organizations indicates the practical bent of 
Mr. Wade's energies. He is also extensively en- 
gaged in real-estate transactions, and has figured in 
many land-improvement enterprises. 

A man so jjrominent at the bar and in business 
naturally ac(|uires such influence and jirestige in a 
community as will commend him for political prefer- 
ment. Mr. Wade is a strong Republican in his 
political faith, but he has too many interests to find 
much time for the diversions of politics. l-'or 
several years, however, his services have been in 
great demand during campaigns ; and he has made 
numerous tours of the state, and is one of the favorite 
camjjaign orators. He is an aggre.ssive, logical, 
vote-getting speaker, and eloi|uent enough to con- 
trol even a hostile audience. His party associates 
have at various times sought to induce him to 
become a candidate for public office, and in 1891 
he was nominated for state comptroller. He had 
excellent iiualifications for this office, and would 
doubtless have discharged its duties most acceptably, 
had he been elected. It happened, however, not to 
be a Republican year, and he suffered defeat with 
the rest of the ticket. 



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As nny Itc easily inferred from the foregoini;, 
Mr. Waile is a |>ri)^ressive force in his coinmiinity, 
ami has hail a large |art in the recent development 
of Jamestown and C'haiitaiii|iia county. His career 
is an inspiration to the younjjer memliers of the Kir, 
and is a striking; example of what l>rains, energy, 
and (Wtience can accomplish in this 
coimtry. Having experienced some of 
the difficulties with which young men 
have to <ontenti, he is ever ready to lend 
them a helping hand. Many young 
lawyers owe their fir^t impetus to success 
to his kindiv interest and substantial aid. 

/'/■IRSOX.-tL C/fMOXOLOaV — 
Aiiliiir C. U'ltilf 7oas horn at Charlotte . 
X. )'. , Detfiiiher IJ, IS.'iJ : n'ax tulii- 
catfd at E//ini;to)i (X. Y. ) Acaid-iiiy, and 
Clianiherlain lnstitiilt\ Nan,/o//</i, X. )'. .■ 
i;rai/natfii from tli<- Alhanx Law School 
in IS77, and was at once admitted to 
the har ; married M. Franc /irii^i^s oj 
Ellim^ton Aui^iist 22, 1S77 ; f>racticed law 
at F.llini^ton, 1H77S2 : was Repiihlican 
candidate for comf'troller oj the state ol 
Xeio York in 1S!>I : has f-racticed /(/7.' in 
/amestiricn, .A'. )', siii.e ]SS-i. 
••• 

3CV0inC .16. jFli'hCr is known 1.1 
the I'ar .ind pcuplc ol Hc>tern New \ ork 
as one of the safest coimselors and aMest 
trial lawyers in that se<tion of the slate. 
He was liorn in the village of Russell, 
Warren lounty, I'enn., aliout forty-si \ 
vears ago, removing to Jamestown in 
|.S(;4, where he has sin<e resided. His 
earlv education was olitained in ll>e com 
miin SI hools of Pennsylvania, aTiii was 
c(M)linued at the Jamestown Union S< hool 
and I'ollegiale Institute, from which hi- 
graduated in I.S72. He also attended Cornell 
University two years, taking an optional course. 
.After leaving Cornell, he Negan the study of law 
in the oHice of Hootey \- l-'owler at Jamestown, 
:ind was admitted to the liar in 1x7^. 

He liegan praitiie .ilone, hut soon formed a 
IKirtncr^hip with M.irvin Smith, under the lirm name 
of Smith \- l-isher. This partnership <<inlinue<l till 
August, I. SSI, when he became the junior member 
of the firm of Cook, l.oikwood .V I'isher. In |SH2 
Mr. I.ockwood retired iVom the firm, and in |S,s:{ 
.\rthiir C. Wade was admitted lo membership, the 
style being look. I'isher iV Wade until the dis.solu 
tion of the firm u|K>n the death of Judge Cook in 
luly, IMi.'i. l-isher .V Wade continued the business, 



and in September, IMK.'i, they a.s.sociated wiili ihcm 
M. k. .Stevenson. 

In |K>litical matters Judge l-isher hxs been a |>;ir- 
tisan of the .strii test .sort, but has enjoyeil the con- 
fidence and L-steem of men of all |«rties. He h.as 
virtually been in public life since his ailmission 




lo the bar. l-'.\cu while studying law he was twice 
elected clerk of ihe village of Jamislown, and after- 
wards representeil the lity on ihe board of super- 
visors. In I.S.S4 he was cho.sen alternate delegate 
to the Kepiibliian nati(Mial convention, where he 
favored the nomination of Ulainc ; and he was an 
ardent sup|iorler of Harrison in the national con- 
vention of l.ss.s, to which he w;»s a delegali-. 
.\fter the elei lion of President Harrison Judge I'isher 
w.as a |ironunent candidate for the offii e of I'niieil 
States distriit attorney, and received the united 
siipiKirt of the organi/alion ami leaders of the |>arl\ 
in the state. ((wing to an unlorlunate factional 
fight, he was defcatetl in ISiKt for the |>>>sition of 
county judge of Chautaii<|ua lOunty. In |H!Ui he 



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received the unanimous nomination of the Repul)- 
lican county convention for the same office, and 
was elected l)y more than 7000 majority. He has 
been on the bench only a short time now, but 
already long enough to demonstrate his impartiality, 
fairness, and fidelity. 

Ju(iL;e P'ishcr has had few equals in western New 




Western Sun Chapter, R. A. M. ; and he was the 
first Eminent Commander of Jamestown Command- 
ery. No. (U, K. T. He is a Past Exalted Ruler of 
Jamestown Lodge, No. 263, B. P. O. E., and is 
chairman of the board of Crand Trustees of the 
order in the United States. He is a prominent 
member of the Jamestown Club. 

Judge Fisher's services are in almost 
constant demand for public addresses. 
As an aggressive campaigner he has 
accjuired a well-deserved fame, while as 
an occasional orator and after-dinner 
speaker he ranks with the foremost of 
the Empire State. From an early period 
in his career Judge Fisher enjoyed the 
friendship of the late Covernor Fenton, 
and was named by him as one of his 
executors, and was made a legatee under 
his will. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY — 
Jerome B. Fisher was horn at Russell, 
Warren county, Fenn., February 13, 
IH.'il ; moved to Jamestoiim, N. Y., May 
S, ISli.'f : raas educated at Jamestoivn 
Union School and Collegiate Institute, and 
Cornell University ; was admitted to the 
bar in 1878 ; married Julia E. Hatch of 
famesto7vn December 19, 1878 ; tuas alter- 
nate delegate to the Republican national 
convention in I88J1., and a delegate in 
1888 ; was elected count)' judge of Chau- 
lai((]ua county in November, 1896 ; has 
practiced knv in Jamestown since 1878. 



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Y'ork in recent years as a trial lawyer. Two notable 
recent cases in which he was conspicuously success- 
ful were the Broadhead-l-ister suit, involving several 
hundred thousand dollars, and the case of the People 
against James Rainey, whom he succeeded in ac(iuit- 
ting of the charge of murder. 

Not only has Judge Fisher been conspicuous in 
the courts and active in politic:s, but for many years 
he has been prominent in lodge and social circles, 
and identified with many business enterprises. He 
is jjresident of the Jamestown Shale Paving Brick 
Co., and of the Lakevvood Ice Co., and is a stock- 
holder in other busine.ss enterprises. He is a mem- 
ber of Mt. Moriah Lodge, F. & .V. M., and of 



Hrtbur C. Ibastings, recently 

elected mayor of Niagara I'alls, and pre- 
viously jirominent in ])olitical and in 
business life, is still a yoinig man, having 
been born in Brooklyn a few months 
before the beginning of the Civil War. 
His early education was received in the public 
schools of Brooklyn ; and he afterward attentled 
Smith College at Hatfield, Ma.ss. He commenced 
his active business career in 1.S77 at Rochester, 
with the Rochester Paper Co., becoming secretary 
of the comijany after a short term of service. 
Resigning this position in 1K.S9, he a.ssociatcd him- 
self with John F. (^uigley in building and operating 
pulp and ])apcr mills at Niagara Falls, N. Y. 
.After that he became treasurer and manager of 
the Cliff Paper Co. at Niagara I'alls, and is still so 
engaged. Mr. Hastings has concentrated his busi- 
ness activity on a single industry, and has in that 
way acquired a wide knowledge of the field. He 



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knows thoroughly both the manufacturing end of the 
business, and the diftitult market in whith the 
product must be sold. 1 he jiaper industry ha.s ex- 
panded enormously in recent years because of great 
improvements in ma( hincrv and processes ; and men 
who have grown up with tlic new order of things 
are correspondingly valuable in the conduct of 
paper-making i)]ants. 

Mr. 1 hustings has given his best attention to busi- 
ness, and has not until lately taken an active jiart in 
outside pursuits. He has always been interested, 
however, in public matters, and only the pres.sure of 
|)rivate business has kept him from partici|)ation in 
political affairs. In IHiKJ he became president of 
the police board of .Niagara Falls, and made so good 
a record in the office that his name began to be 
mentioned in connection with the mayoralty of the 
city. As the time for deciding upon the 
nominees ai)proai he<l, his < amlidai y in- 
crca.sed in favor, and he ultimately re- 
ceived the Republican nomination. lie 
was elected in March, 18117, overcoming 
the usual Democratic majority. .Mthough 
Mayor Hastings has served but a part 
of his term as chief magistrate of .Niagara 
Falls, the projjhecy may safely be made 
that his administration will be efficient, 
business-like, and clean. 

In the .SOI ial life of Niagara Falls 
Mayor Hastings ha.s naturally been prom- 
inent. He is a Knight Templar Ma.son. 
and a member of the ( )rdcr of Noblo 
of the -Mvstic Shrine. 

PKRSOXAI. CHROXOL OGY — 
Arthur Cluipin Hastings 7i>as Iwni al 
Brooklyn, N. Y., July li, ISOO .■ 7i'ns 
educated in Brooklyn puhlie schools and 
at Smith College, Hatfield, Mass. ; mar- 
ried Alice W. Broiun of Rochester January 
IS, 1S87 ; 7i'as connected 7i<ith the Roch- 
ester Paper Co. , lS7~-rSf) : has been 
treasurer and manager of the Cliff Paper 
Co., Niagara Falls, X. )'., since 1SH2. 

ICC IR. SanLvnil has stamped 
himself indelibly upon the ma|)of Niagara 
county, and in the hearts of its people. 
His father was a teacher at Bath, N. H., 
and afterward an itinerant ])reacher in 
the Methodist Kpisco|al ( hur( h ; and 
his mother was likewise a tcaiher at Worcester, 
Ma.ss. , and a person of culture anil character. Lnder 
the wholesome influence of their precept and ex- 
ample Mr. Sanborn a(i|uircd a thorough moral and a 



fair intellectual e<lucation. He was l>orn near 
Hroikport, .Monroe county, but moved a few miles 
west, to the |>lace that now bears his name. There 
he engaged in the lumber business and in manu- 
facturing, and soon became widely and favorably 
known. In fact his position in the community 
ultimately became such thai the people of the place 
named the village after him. 

I'he prominence implied in this event was al.so 
evident in numerous public trusts to which Mr. San- 
born was called early in his career. .\t one time or 
another he has held almost all the town offices. In 
1H7(I and again the next year, he w;ls a member of 
the state assembly, and took a prominent |iart in the 
procetnlings of that body. He has often been sent 
as a delegate to state con\entions, and in 1H«4 
was a delegate to the national < onvention that nom- 




.IKTHIK r. //.Isr/XCS 

inated James ('■. HIaine. For many years he has 
been regarded as one of the leaders of the Repub- 
lican party in Niagara county ; and his great influence 
at home and elsewhere has contributed materiallv to 



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the strength of the Republican cause in his ]i:irt of 
the state. In IcSJSfi he was api)ointed hy the i,'o\ - 
ernor of New York a member of the board of man- 
agement of the state school for the blind at Batavia. 
He was elected president of the board of trustees in 
the same year, and still holds thai |iosition. He is 




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noted for his interest in nil |ihilanlhr()])ic enterprises. 
and for many deeds of private benevolence. 

Mr. Sanborn has been engaged in various com- 
mercial undei takings, and has shown unusual busi- 
ness ability in the condiul of tlie same. He lias 
been largel)- interested in the manufactine ol' lunibi'r 
in western New York and Michigan, where he has 
had large limber interests for many years. He has 
also taken mu< h |]ersonal interest in his farm, which 
is one of the most fertile in the county. 

Mr. Sanborn has been since early manhood a firm 
believer in Masonry, and has risen to high rank in 
the order. He is a member of (Jenesee Command- 
ery, No. 10, Knights Temijlars, Lock|)ort, a Scot- 
tish Rite Mason, and a member of Ismailia Temple, 



Buffalo. He is also greatly interested in the Royal 
rem])lars of Temperance, and other fraternal orders. 
In 1.S.S7 he was elected representative to the Supreme 
Council of Royal Templars, and by that body was 
made a life member of the board of directors. In 
1iS!l'.i he was elected Supreme Councilor, and now 
holds that position. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOG V — 
Lcc Randall Sanborn rcas horn at Sweden, 
Monroe county, N. V. , Angnst 8, JS31 : 
7c>as educated in public schools : married 
Julia C. Craivford of Leioiston, N. Y. , 
September 9, JS49 ; was a member of the 
Ne7v York state assembly, 1S70-71 ; has 
lived at Sanborn, N. Y., engaged in 
lumber dealing, farming, and various com- 
mercial enterprises, since 181^8. 



3obn 6. Mallcumcicr, 3r., is 

of Cerman descent, but his life thus far 
has been spent in western New York, 
. Born in the section of Bnfl^ilo known 
as Black Rock during the earl\- part of 
the Civil War, he was taken to Tona- 
wanda in childhood, and has made his 
home there ever siui e. He received his 
education in the public schools of the 
town, and gained his first knowledge of 
commercial life there. 

Shortly before he attained iiis majority 
Judge VVallenmeier began business on 
his own account, opening a grocery store 
in Tonawanda in May, lf<S.'!. He con- 
ducted thi' undertaking with prudence 
and energy, and met with a good degree 
of success from the start. After a few 
years he added a meat market to his eslali- 
lishment ; and the combined business was 
continued until the spring of lSil4, when 
he sold his store in order to dex'ote himself to other 
duties. 

ludge Wailenmeier has always been an active 
Republican, and has taken a prominent part in 
public affair:, in 'Tonawanda. His devotion to hi?, 
p.irty and the caur.e ol good government in general 
was apiireciated by his fellow-citi/ens ; and was 
a])pro|)rialely recognized by his appi)intmeut b\ the 
coiiiu il of 'Tonawanda as the first police justii e under 
the act of I SIM establishing a police force in the 
tinvii In the spring of IS!).") he was elected bv 
the |ie()pli' to the same office for a term of four 
years. The growing and changing population of 
the thriving manufacturing town is not alwavs of the 
most peaceful character, and Judge Wailenmeier has 



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had :il)iin(lant opiwrtunily to exercise the functions 
of his otlicc. lie has fuirilied its duties with lom- 
niendal>le zeal and vijjor, and with strict ini|iartiality 
as well ; nietinj; out due punishment to all olTenders 
without rejjard for position, and with a sturdy deter 
mination to render justice that has (gained for him 
the approval of all right-minded ])ersons. 

Judfje Wallenmeier has taken much interest in the 
work of the sjivings and loan associations that have 
liccome so popular in recent vears. Their facilities 
for tuili/inj; the small weekly sjivings of the workinj;- 
man ajijiealeil to his (lerman thrift and common 
sense. In IH'.MI, ai i ordingly, he heli>ed to or};ani/e 
ihe Niaj,'ara Savings and Loan Association, anil was 
its president for several years, retiring in iSiM'iwhen 
he found the cares of the position too ariluous to lie 
( ontinued longer in connection with his public dulies. 

In the general and social life of the 
conimunily Judge Wallenmeier is iKil 
iirall) prominent, and he has a host ol 
friends. He is the Worshijiful Master ol 
Tonawanda Lodge, No. '247, K. iS: A. M., 
and lielongs to the Cierman F.vangelical 
church. Having ser\ed from INT''^ to 
lHH(i as a volimtcer fireman at Tona 
wanda, he received his exemption |i;i|ier> 
from the village council in .April, iH.sii. 
In .\pril, 1.S!I7, he was ele< ted l>y the 
a<tive volunteer llremen a memlier ol 
the Tonawanda Firemen's Benevolent 
Association then organizing, and was 
cho.sen liv a unanimous vote its (ir;l 
secretary. 

PE/isO.X. 1 1. L II R ( hXOLOG ) — 
John Gi'oixi- if'iillrnmrifr, Jr., 7oas horn 
n/ Buffalo Oilohi-r lit, tS(!J : n;is filii- 
iiifi-il ill llic f>iil'lii' silii'oix of Tomniiiiihlii. 
X. v.: iiiiirrii-il lliitlii- May Koeh oj 
Toiiatoaiula jVorr-'ilirr tJ,, ISS.S : con- 
iliiilcil a i^nvrrr ami mm/ market at Ton- 
aioaiiila. 1SS. !-!>>, ; 7i>as /•risiilriit of tli. 
A'iai;iiia Sa:wiix;.< /iitil- Loan Aisofialion, 
IS!)'i-.'H! : luis hern />oliiY iinlifi' of Joiia- 
•■•aiiila shier ISOJ^. 



others, in drifting the original charier liy which the 
new ( ily w.-ls to lie governed. On the organization 
of the common council he took an active jiart in in- 
augurating and maintaining the |»olicy of the munic 
i|i;d government. 

Mr. Wicks wiLs |artic ularly jirominent among 
those who demanded a munici|)al control of certain 
natural monopolies, such as jmhlic wateiworks, 
electric- lighting plants, and the like. It was largely 
through his efforts that a munic i|ial elec trie lighting 
plant was eslalilishecl at Jamestown. .As an alder 
man of the city he worked for this end in season and 
out of sea.son ; and the plant hxs since lieen enlarged 
and developed to such an extent as to justify and 
reward his earlv ac tivily and energy in its liehalt. 

.Micr a serx ic e of four vears in the common i oun 
( il .Mr. W ii ks retired from puMic oftice ; liul his 




?iO\>\\ G. TTfliChiJ, oneof the leadiiiLr i 

atloriK\s ol tile (hautau(|ua county liar. 

has been prominently identified with the ^^^^^^. ^^ „.„,,,^„„„^^ ,, 

munic i|i:tl history of the city ol James 

town since its organization. \\ hen that 

community outgrew its village conditions, and work was too ini|MirtanI to the commonwealth to 

.assumed the dignilv of a citv, Mr. Wic ks was chosen permit of long inactivity, and at the end of a year 

a member of the first common coimcjl from the Isi he w.is chosen attorney for the cily of Jamestown. 

ward of the city. Hehaclbecninstriiment.il. with Vc ting in this ca|«icity for four years, he drafled 



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many amendments to the city charter : virtually, 
indeed, he redrafted the entire instrument. During 
his term of office many public im|irovenients were 
undertaken ; and all the bonds created thereby were 
issued under his direction, and the contracts for 
more than half a million dollars' worth of jnililic 




JOHX C. liVCA'S 

works were drawn by him. To his credit as an 
attorney it can be said that no flaw has been dis- 
covered in any of this work. 

Mr. Wicks was born in the town of Carroll, now 
Kiantone, Chautauijua county. After graduating 
from the Jamestown High School, and later from the 
Albany Law School, he was admitted to the bar in 
IHTfi, and soon took rank with the leaders of his 
profession in his native county. Among the at- 
torneys who have graduated from his office are A. C. 
Pickard, J. Delevan Curtiss, and D. I). Dorn. P"or 
several years he was associated willi Mr. Curtiss: 
since the dissolution of this partnership he has pre- 
ferred to jjractice alone. 

Aside from his conncclinn with the Icyal pro- 



fession, Mr. Wicks has been prominently identified 
with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, hold- 
ing the office of District Deputy Grand Master of 
Chautauqua county for three years in the '8(Vs. He 
has always been active in the Republican party. 
PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Johti Gilhert 
Wicks 7oas horn i/i the imvn of Carroll, 
Chautauqua county, N. V., yatmary 10, 
IH')') : was etlucatcd in country schools 
and the Jamestown High School ; grad- 
uated from the Albany Law School, and 
icas admitted to the bar in 1876 ; married 
Emma L. Russell in December, 1876 ; 
7i'as an alderman of the city of James- 
town, 1886-90, and city attorney, 1801- 
9~> : has practiced laic in /ainesfojcn since 
1876. 



3frC& H). Cores was born in Jeffer- 
son county, New York, during the Civil 
War. He was educated in the public 
schools of Watertown, the county seat, 
and graduated from the high school 
there in 1884. He at once turned his 
attention to teaching, and followed this 
occupation very successfully for the next 
six years. For the first half of that time 
he remained in his native county, and 
held the position of principal succes- 
sively in the schools at Kvans' Mills, 
I'.rownville, and Sackett's Harbor. In 
1(S87, however, he accepted the princi- 
])alship of a grammar school at Norwalk, 
Conn., and for the next three years 
labored there. By this time he was in 
his twenty-eighth year ; and it became 
evident to him that the teacher's calling, 
though attractive in many ways, did not 
afford the op|)ortunity for advancement 
desired. Accordingly, he gave up his 
position in Connecticut, and began, somewhat late 
in life, to jtrepare himself for admission to the bar. 
Returning to the < ity of Watertown, Mr. Corey 
entered the office of Hannibal Smith as a student, 
and remained with him a little more than a year. 
In the fall of b^iH he became a member of the Buf- 
talo Law School, and graduated therefrom in the 
following May. Realizing that the Queen City 
offered a field of professional activity unsurpassed, 
])erhaps, by any citv in the land, he decided to try 
his fortunes there. I'or two years he worked in the 
office of Robert !•'. Si helling as a clerk, and then, 
Julv 1, 1''^!I4, formed a |)artnershi|) with Ldward 1). 
Strebel, under the firm name of Slrebel & Corey, 



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that still exists. In the years since jiasscd he has 
made j;oo(l projiress in Imildin}; up a stil)stantial 
(iientage, and making a ])la(u for himself at the liar 
of Krie county. The fact that he was several years 
older than the average lawyer when he began prac- 
tice, has l)een in his favor in some respects, since 
he has been able to bring to bear upon legal prob- 
lems a more mature mind and more ri|)ened judg- 
ment. 

Mr. Corey devotes himself wholly to his chosen 
|)rofession. Thus far he has resisted the allurements 
of |>olitical life, which as a nde appeal so strongly 
to a lawyer, and he is not a member of any social 
or fraternal organizations. He belongs to the North 
Presbyterian Church. 

PKRSOXAL CHRONOLOGY— Frrd Dani,/ 
Corey K'as horn at Black River, Jefferson (oinity, 
N. Y., May 27, IfiiU : gradualeJ from the 
H'a/ertoJon ( N. Y. ) liii^h St /tool in ISS.', ; 
t.iui^hl uhool, lfiS',-.'li) : marrieii Ella I.. 
Phelps of Saikelf s Harbor, N. )', Aiii^iist 
17, 1S87 ; 7i>as admitted to the l>ar in 
1S!)2 : has practiced law in Buffalo since 
ISfti. 



TROlailD Cramjle is a notable ex- 
ample of the oft-cited fact that in 
.America hard work, when combined 
with nati\e ability, is sure to be amply 
rewardetl. l'!ven in America, though 
many men amass large fortunes in a 
com|»aratively short time, it is not so 
common for a man to rise from the 
position of a day laborer to the ranks ul 
one of the learneil professions in a do/en 
years. Such, however, is the story of 
Mr. Crangle's career thus lar. 

Horn in the north of Ireland iiitlc 
more than thirty years ago, Mr. Cranglc 
spent his boyhood on the farm in County 
Down where his jtarents still reside. At 
an early age he became a pu|)il in one 
of the National Schools of the country, 
and continued his studies there until his 
sixteenth year, obtaining thus a good 
general education. He was ambitious 
for a far higher career than any that 
seemed ojien to him in his native land, 
and he accordingly determined to emi- 
grate to America. Arriving in New ^'ork, 
he betook himself at once to HulTalo, which has 
proved a most hospitable home. Without friends 
or money, he was obliged to begin at the foot 
of the ladder, and his first employment w.xs that 



of a laborer on the docks. He afterward worked 
as a freight hand in the Krie-railroad freight 
house, and subsequently secured a position as clerk 
in the freight office of the I-akc Shore road. 

During the years thus o<'cu|)ied Mr. C'rangle de- 
voted his spare time to the study of elocution, for 
whi< h he had a great liking, and much natural 
aptitude ; and in due time he graduated from the 
UufTalo School of Klocution. In the presidential 
canijiaign of IMHH he used his talents in the service 
of the Democratic jxirty, making many sjieeches in 
favor of its candidates. His |>olitical work brought 
him to the favorable notice of many men prominent 
in HufTalo ; and, as he had now accumulated .some 
capital from his eight years of hard work, he was 
able to gratify his ambition, and pre|j;»re himself for 
a position where his abilities would have full scope. 




lHt-.l> /». roK/iV 



In January, 1XX!I, accordingly, he entered the 
law ortice of Rogers, Locke iV Milburn, HulTalo, 
where he remained five years, during which he was 
dulv admitteil to the bar. This finn stands second 



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ME.y OF XEir VORK—li-ESTF.h'X SECTION 



to none in western New York, and Mr. Crangle's 
long connection with the office as student and clerk 
could not fail to give him a thorough knowledge 
of the princijjles and practice of the law. Since 
January, 1894, he has practiced on his own account, 
and has attained a most satisfactory measure of 




A'(>/.J\l> IRAXCLE 

success. He is rccogni/.ed by iiis fellow members 
oi the Huffalo bar as a jjainstaking aiul careful 
lawyer of decided ability, and his steady advance- 
ment in his chosen |)rofession may lie confidently 
]jredicted. 

Mr. Crangle cares little for ( hib or sociciv life, 
]ireferring to devote himself to his profession. 

PERSONA I. Cll RONOr. O G Y — Rol.vui 
Cran;^lf was horn at Bnllvijiiinlin, Coi/ii/v /)i>7iiii, 
firlaiui, Aui^iist /7, ISiiJ, ,• wat educated in tlic 
National Selioo/s of /re /ant; came to t/ie L'nile,l 
States in IfiSO, and worked as a /alwrer and clerk 
at Knffalo, IHHO-HH : studied /aw, and loas admitted 
/(> t/ie bar in June, 1802 ,- /las practiced law in 
Buffalo since January, 189 J^. 



S. fl-l. IPUChWit.) was born less than forty 
years ago in the town of Wheatfield, Niagara county, 
New York. His ])arents, .\ugustus and Louise 
Donath Diickwitz, were natives of Stettin, Germany, 
who came to the United States in 1853. They 
spent five years in New York, and then moved to 
Niagara county, where Augustus Duck- 
witz bought a farm and carried on a large 
nursery, selling nearly all the fruit trees 
in that section of the state. During 
the war he served as provost marshal, 
and after his return North bought a large 
general store in St. Johnsburgh, Niagara 
comity. This he conducted for several 
years, acting at the same time as auction- 
eer, insurance agent, antl justice of the 
])eace. Ferdinand Duckwitz hel])e(l his 
father on the farm and in the store, 
attending distri< t schools as he had op- 
jiortunitv, until his fourteenth year. At 
that time his lather sold the store, and 
the new ])roprietor was glad to secure 
the yomig man's services at a salary. 
Mr. Duckwitz remained with him two 
years, and accumulated a sufficient stun 
I to enable him to gratify his desire for a 
^^^J better education than he had thus far 
\ ^^H obtained. M the age of sixteen, accord- 
%^^| iugly. he left home and betook him- 
\ ^^k self to Buffalo, where he studied for a 
*AV year at Bryant iV- Stratton's Business 

■ V College. He then went West, and spent 

■ 1 a year working on farms and in stores in 
■ I various places. I'y this time he had 

iletermined to become a lawver, and had 
also derided the (piestion of l(i(nlil\ in 
favor of the Kast. Returning, therelore, 
to his native county, he entered the 
office of Cicorge C". dreene of l,o( kport 
as a student. His |ire|iaratory training had not been 
so thorough as wiiuld have been desirable, but he 
made u]) for any lai k in this respect by close ap|ili- 
cation and natural al)ilil\. During his three years 
in Mr. (ireene's oflire he published the Li>c/!/>orter 
/)eutsc/ie /.eituni;, a weekly (lerman |)aper, and also 
acted as insurance agent and organi/er ol lodges, 
managing in this way not only to support himself, 
but to save enough money to take him to < ollcge. 
He entered the law department of I'nion I'nixersity 
in 187!), graduated May 24, 188(1, and in the same 
month was admitted to ])ractice in ill the courts of 
New York state. 

Immediately alter his a(huissi(in to the bar .Mr. 
Duckwitz opened an offu e in I'.ulTalu, where he has 



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|ira<ti<(.'(l ever since with most gratifvin}; success. 
In ihe early pari of his lej,'al tarecr he was mm h 
hel|>e(l l>y his thorouj;h knowledge of the (ierman 
language, which the large Clemian )X)|>ulation of 
the ( ity rendered |uirti( niarly nscful. In IHHI he 
lornied a |iartnerslii|i will) John li. Perkins, which 
lasted until Mr. Perkins's death in l.S,s;5. lie 
then a.s.sociated himself with Charles K. Robinson, 
and later with William Arm.strong. January 1, 
l.S'.H). Mr. |)u( kwit/ estalilished the present firm of 
huckuil/, I'hayer iS: Jackson, in ));irtnership with 
Wallace 'I'hayer antl l'"rederick S. Jackson. This 
a.s.sociation was a most fortunate one, anil has lie- 
come one of the most popular of the younger law 
firms of HulValii. Mr. Due kwit/. is an excellent 
tounselor and business lawyer, Mr. Thaver |)Os.sesses 
de< ided talent .ns a trial lawyer, and Mr. Jackson is 
analile co-worker in the general business 
of Ihe firm. 

Mr. Duckwit/ is activel) concerru'd 
in a variety of matters outside his |iro 
fession. For a number of years he was 
the treasurer and a Iruslee of the 
Mechanics' Institute, and look the great- 
est interest in the a.ssociation. lie 
belongs to many soi ial and fraternal 
organizations, including the Royal .-Vrca- 
num, the Improved < )rder of Hei>ta.sophs. 
and the I'nited I'riends. lie is a mem 
ber of the Supreme C'oimcil of the Km- 
pire Knights of Relief, and of the 
Sii|)reme Ruling of the Kraternal Mystic 
Circle of the State of Pennsylvania. He 
was one of the im orporators of the 
Order of the Iroquois of Buffalo, and is 
the Supreme Councilor of the order, 
chairman of the < ommittee on laws, and 
a niewber of the board of trustees. In 
jiolilics he is a stanch Reimblican, who 
never hesitates or wavers in his yarVy 
allegiaui e, and has been for many years 
a member of the linlfalo Repiibliian 
League. He is one of the wardens of 
St. Luke's Kpisi opal Chun h, and wa^ 
for a time its treasurer. 

/•/■:a;sox.i/. c w/a'Oxo/. ooi — 

l-'i-i;liiMiul llirniiiii /)iiii~l<>itz 7i'iis horn 

in Ihf /ini'n of W'luuittiflii, X. )., Aiij:;- 

nsl II, IS.'iS : alli-ndiul ilistriti schools itnJ 

Jiiyiinl c^' S/nii/on's /in.tinrs.t CW/iXf : 

shiiiiiul Utu' in a f.oiL'/>or/oJliii\ anil x^iiiJiiitUil from Ihf 

ltiu< ilcfiiirlincnt of I'nion I'nirrrsily in ISSd : nitirrie.l 

Ht-iiriftl,i ll'iili/ron S/>rini;slrri/ of Alluinv Decemhfr 

,'-', /.V.sv; .• /;,;.■ fniiliiii/ hno in Ihiffalo sinif ISSO. 



30*>Cpb '1. Jfim•Cbll^, «tio has been prom 
inent in public life for man\ years, was born in 
Seneca county. New York, during Andrew Jac kson's 
first administration. .After attending the private 
s< hools of his native town, and graduating at Water- 
loo .\<adeiny, he < ontiniied his studies untlera private 
tutor, and fitted himsi-lf for the sojihomore clas.s at 
Hobart College. He change<l his minil, however, 
when about to begin his i-ollegiate course, deciding 
to stiuly law. His un< le, Harlow S. Love, was then 
one of the leading attorneys of Itiiffalo ; and in his 
office, that of 'I'alcott \- Love, Mr. l-'airchild read 
law. He was admitted to the Uir in IK.'i.'l, and be 
gan his career as a lawyer at once in ItiirPalo. 

l''or the next fifteen years Mr. Kainliild gave him- 
self unreserxedly to his profession, building up a 
practice that was at on< e liuralive and gratifyingly 




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significant of his legal ability. He served nciepla- 
bly several of the succes.sors of the Holland l-md 
Co., and other individual anil < or|M)rale clients 
whose legal inleresis were import. ml In ihe fill of 



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MEN OF NEW YORK—WESTERX SECTIOX 



18(i7 an important position came to him entirely 
without solicitation on his part, and Mr. Fairchild 
abandoned his profession for the office of register in 
bankruptcy. In the year mentioned congress pa.s.sed 
the momentous ])iece of legislation known a.s the 
national bankru])t(y act, which called into being an 




JOSEPH I.. FMRI HII.D 

important set of otticials concerneil in the adjustment 
of bankrupt estates. Their fimctions were both 
judicial and administrative, and only men of high 
character and tried ability were selected for the 
office. Mr. Fairchild received his ajipointment from 
Salmon P. Chase, chief justice of the United States, 
and wa.s sworn into office January 8, 1868. For the 
next decade he devoted all his time and strength to 
his important work, sparing himself in no respect, 
and discharging most efficiently the trying duties of 
his office. In 1878 congress repealed the act under 
which Mr. Fairchild was appointed, except a.s to 
cases existing at that time. Mr. Fairchild still re- 
tains the office, but its work has been increasingly 
light since the re])eal of the law. 



Having lived in Buffalo since the middle of the 
century, Mr. Fairchild has become one of the best- 
known men of the city, and has taken a leading |)art 
in many public movements. He was prominent in 
the Young Men's Association for many years ; and 
was a prime mover in effecting the important change 
of location made in l.S(i4, when the 
society left its quarters in the old Ameri- 
can block and purchased the St. James- 
hotel property on the site of the present 
Hotel Iro(|uois. For two years he was 
on the board of supervisors of Erie 
county, representing the old 10th ward, 
Buffalo. He was a park commi.ssioner 
for eight years, and was a member of 
the building committee that su])ervised 
the construction of the Parade House. 
He had much to do, also, with the ])lan- 
ning of Delaware park, taking great in- 
terest in the creation of its charming lake 
and other beautiful features. 

Mr. Fairchild has been a member of 
the Masonic order since early manhood, 
and is a life member of Ancient Land- 
mark Lodge, No. 441, F. & A. M. He 
is also a charter member of .Vdytiun 
Chapter, R. A. M. 

An interesting episode in Mr. Fair- 
child's life was his visit at the \\'hite 
House just after Lincoln's inauguration. 
He was related to Lincoln by marriage, 
and knew him intimately years before the 
presidency was mentioned in connection 
with the "Rail-Splitter." During this 
visit Mr. Fairchild met many of the 
notable men of the country, and he 
looks ba( k upon the experience with great 
interest. It is worthy of note that he has 
been intimate with another President, as 
he and Crover Cleveland are old-time chums. Mr. 
Fairchild does not agree with Mr. Cleveland on 
political questions ; but he has the warmest regard 
for him jjersonally, and believes thoroughly in his 
honesty of character and purpose. 

PERSONAL C 11 R OXOL O G Y— Joseph Lewis 
Fairchild was born at Jl'aier/oo, jV. V., Af<nl 8, 
183] ; jcas ctiiicated in private schools and Waterloo 
Academy ; studied law in a Buffalo office, and 7oas 
admitted to the bar in 18i)3 ; practiced law in Buffalo, 
1853-67 : married Anna E. Dcnnison of Buffalo 
No7'eml>er 13, 1802 ; rvas a member of the Erie-county 
board of supen'isors, lS(Hi-(i7, and a park commissioner 
of Buffalo for eight years, beginning in 1874 > 1"^^ hfl<i 
the office of register in bankruptcy at Buffalo since 1868. 



M/:\ OJ- XKll- VORK—lVESrEhW SKCT/OX 



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Cbarlc^ Cvrus? jfanibam «as iwm in 

Bradford, Orange county, N'crmont, in 1«(;4. He 
is the oldest living son of Roswcll Farnham, who 
was governor of Vermont in ISXO-S'i. The Farn- 
hanis were among the earliest settlers in the Mas- 
s;ii husetts colony. The first ancestor on this side 
of the ocean wa.s Ralph Farnham, who sailed from 
Southampton, Kngland, Ai)ril ti, IfJ.S"), in the l>rig 
"James," and landed in Boston after a voyage of 
fifty-eight days. Settling first in Anduver, Mass., 
not far from Boston, the Farnhams afterward moved 
to Concord, N. H. They were among the earliest 
inhabitants of that frontier town, the name of Kph- 
raim I'arnham appearing under the dale February ">, 
172"), in ihe Proprietors' Records of I'ennyiook 
(now Concord). This ICphraiin had a son Ben- 
jamin, whose son John, born in Concord January 2, 
17tit>, wxs the grandfather of (lovernor 
Roswell I'arnham. doxernor Farnham's 
grandfather on the maternal side was 
Captain Uavid Bixby of I'iermont, N. 11., 
who .served in the armies of the Re\o- 
lution from Lexington to Saratoga. Kn- 
listing then on board the privateer 
" Franklin," he was taken prisoner by a 
British frigate, carried to F.ngland, antl 
confined for seventeen months in Mill 
( jiresumably Dartmoor) prison. The 
mother of C"harjes Cyrus Farnham was 
Mary Kli/abeth Johnson of Bradford, 
Vt., who married Roswell I'arnham on 
Christmas day, 1S4!I. 

Our present subject prepared for col- 
lege at the academy in his native town, 
anti entered the L'niversity of Vermont 
at Burlington in the fall of 1«S2. Crad 
uating thence in tlue course in June, 
l««(i, he commenced at once the study 
of law in his father's office. .Vfter re- 
maining there a year he went into the 
law (.lejiartment of Columbia College. 
New York city, whence he graduateil 
with the degree of I.F.B. in I SHU. 
During the vacations of his law course 
Mr. Farnham employed his time in 
tutoring the grandchiklren of Salmon I'. 
Chase and a son of Ccneral Wager 
Swayne. 

Some time before his graduation from 
Columbia Mr. Farnham had decided to 
settle in Buffalo, feeling sure that the charm of the 
city as a place of residence was no greater than its 
promise as a field of professional practice. Proceed- 
ing thither, accordingly, on the day before he 



received his degree a.s a Bachelor of I-iw, he took 
an examination for .idmission to the l>ar, and passed 
siKcessfully. He wiis taken at once into the oftice 
of .McMillan, Cluck & I'ooley, where he had at one 
time read law, anil remained with them until No- 
vember, 1S!K), when he opened an oflu e of his own. 
.\fter prai ticing alone a few months, he formed a 
IKirtnership in July, IHiM, with .Vugust Becker, who 
hatl also studied law in the oftice of McMillan, 
Ciluck \- I'ooley. The finn of Becker & Farnham 
has prospereti from the beginning, and is now 
regarded as one of the strongest a.s.sociations among 
the younger lawyers of the city. Mr. Farnham hits 
proved himself an energetic and prudent business 
man and lawver, and has conducteil many com|ili- 
catetl cases to a satisfactory i.ssue. He enjoys ihe 
e.steem and confidence of many clients and friends. 




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Mr. Farnham has thought it wise to al)slain from 
active |>artici|)alion in |>olitical affairs. He belongs 
to the University Club and various other social 
organizations: and l)oth he and Mrs. Farnham are 



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ronsistent members of the First Congregational 
Churcli, Hiifflilo. Mrs. Farnham is the daughter of 
I'ldward Hall, who for many years conducted a sue 
cessful |)rivate school at i'lUington, Conn. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY — Charles 
Cvn/s Juinilicjvi icas horn at RraJforil, ]'!., Max!), 




CHORCE II. I-ROST 

180 Jf ; graduated from tlie University of Vernuvit in 
1886, and from Colnmliia College Law Seliool in 
I88f) : 7c>as admitted to the l>ar at Buffalo in 1S8!> : 
married Grace I fall of Ellington, Conn. , Octolwr ■](), 
1889 ; has practiced law in Buffalo since 188!). 



George lb. JfrOi^t, "ho lias become well 
known of late years in both professional and busi 
ness circles in l^uffalo, is a native of ('hautaui|ua 
county, and had attained prominence there as a 
lawyer and a citi/ru In lore he moved to the (Jueen 
City in ISM!). 

Horn in the town of ( herry Creek in the vear in 
which i'resident l-illmore entered the White House, 
Mr. Frost received his earlv education in ihe com 



mon schools of the place, and later attended the 
Jamestown Union School and the F.llington Union 
School. His work as an instructor during the next 
ten years furnished an excellent substitute for regular 
schola.stic training. Before he was twenty he began 
teaching in the common schools ; and for several 
years he carried on this occupation during 
the winter months, and worked on his 
father's farm in summer. Later he gave 
all his time to teaching, and had charge 
of s( hools at Versailles, Cherry Creek, 
Kenned)', and other places. 

But school teaching as a life-work did 
not satisfy Mr. Frost's amlu'tion, and he 
determined to preijare himself for the 
legal profe.ssion. He read law, accord- 
ingly, in the office of the late John C. 
Record of F'orestville, N. Y., and was 
admitted to the bar at Rochester in 
October, 1883. Feeling that success 
would be most quickly attained among 
those who knew him best, he at once 
opened an office in his native town. 
He was considerably older at this time 
than the majority of men beginning legal 
practice ; but this circimistance in a 
lawyer's career has some advantages 
along with some undeniable drawbacks, 
and a man of ability soon makes u|) for 
the years that have been seemingly lost. 
Mr. F'rost was successful from the start. 
After several years, actuated by the same 
ambition that had led him to abandon 
teaching for the law, he g:i\e up his 
country practice and moved to lUiffalo, 
judging rightly that the increased oppor- 
tunities in a larger field of action more 
than compensated for the keener com- 
petition of a busy city. 
F"or the first lour years of his residence in liuffalo 
Mr. Frost practiced alone, but on January I, 1S!)-I, 
he formed, with Fred \V. Plato, the firm of I'lost iS; 
Plato, which still continues. Soon after his arri\al 
in liuffalo Mr. Frost became acti\ely interesleil in the 
liroject for building an electric railwa\' on Delaware 
avenue fr(Mii liuffalo to Tonawanda. He was one of 
the organizers of the Buffalo. Kt'nmorc \ Tona- 
wanda I'^le-tric Railway Co., and acted as allorncv 
for the cor|ioralion during the construction of the 
road, and until it was sold to the Buffalo Irk lion Co. 
Mr. I'rost has alwa\s been an earnest Rejiublican. 
During his residence in Cherry Creek he interested 
himself activeh in public aflairs, and in all move- 
ments for achani ing Ihe prosperity of his town and 



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county. In the f;ill of 1K,S(; \\\s services were 
llttinj,'!)' rewarded liy a nomination for n)einl)er of 
assemlily from the se<ond district of C'haiitatit|na 
county. He was duly elected, and was re-elected 
in 1.S.S7, serving his constituents with zeal and 
ability. !)iirini,' both terms in tlic ieijislatnre Mr. 
Krost was a memlier of the committee on general 
laws. In Man h, 1.SH.S, the a.s.semlily i)a.s.sed a reso- 
lution callini,' for the appointment of a committee to 
a.scertain the social, moral, and industrial condition 
of the several tribes of Indians in tiic state ; to in- 
vestigate the tribal urgani/ations and the title to the 
lands in thedilTerent reser\'ations ; anil to afford such 
aid as would enable the state to ileal wisely and in- 
telligently with the .">(I0(» Indians dwelling within 
her borilers. Mr. I'rost was a member of this < oin- 
mittee, and took an active |>art in its laborious work 
.\n exhaustive study of the subject, occu- 
pying several months, resulteil in a report 
to the as.sembly tiated January ."il, 1S«!». 

This doc ument covers seventy nine pages, 
and with its various appendi.xes makes 
up a volume of more than 4011 pages. 

The i ommittee rei ommended the repeal 
of most of the existing Indian laws, the 
enactment of a compidsory-attendance 
school law, and the allottment ol the 
land of the stale reser\ations in severalty 
to the different nuMubers of the tribes ; 
believing that only as the Indian becomes 
an .\nierican citizen, and not a " warrl" 
of the government, will the Indian |)rob- 
lem be solvetl. Mr. Frost's work lui 
this loiTimittee am])ly ilemonstrated his 
Illness for |)ublic service ; but since his 
removal to P>uffalo he has taken a le.ss 
acti\e |>;irt in public affairs than Ibrm 
eriy, wisely preferring to ticvote his 
entire energy for a time to establishing 
himself firmly in the ranks of the su< - 
cesslul lawyers of the < ity. He beliuigs 
to no Iraternitv, chiip h or other assn 
ciations. 

r/-:A'si).\.i/. c//A'Oxo/.()c;y — 

Gri»xi- //. l-'ntsl loiiK horn al Cherry 

Offk, N. v., Dfi;m/>rr /.',, ISMt . ,1/ 

/e-iii/tu/ liistriel sihiwlx, and iiiiioii xcliooh 

lit laniishni'ii aihl Elliiii^lon : A///!,'/// uhool 

in i'lirii'iix Awv/.v, /ST'l—SJ : marrifil llclni 

M. I'frrin of /hiy/on, X. )'. , Dfffmhfr 

/■V, ISTU : sliiiliiui line, an J ituis aiimittfil to thf 

har in ISS.I : /•rai/iiYi/ Anc in Chfrry Crffk, tSS-i- 

Sft ; 7('as memher of assrml>l\\ tSHl-HS : /las />rai- 

liiCii ta:,.' in Buffalo sinff AXoremhi-r, tSSU. 



Bitjiail 1.^. H.'^OWar? is one of the oMest resi 
dents ol ISutlalo, since he moved thither in |M'i7, 
and has made his home there loniimiously for 
.seventy years. His |iarents were New lOnglamlers, 
his mother a native of Connectic ut and his father of 
N'ermont, where his grandfather fought under (len- 
end St;irk in the Iwttle of Kennington. They 
settled on a small farm in the village of Hoston, 
Isrie county, in 1><07, and there our subject was 
born five years later. Ilewxs still an infant when 
the burning of Ituffalo and HIai k Rock threw tin- 
neighboring settlers into a |anic of fear; anil his 
mother prepared for flight to the forest with her 
children at the approach of the s;ivage foe. Mr 
Howard's < hililhood, begun amid such stirring 
s< enes, was 1 luitinued amid the privations and hard 
ships of pioneer life. Hut civilization .idvanced 




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rapidly in western New \'()rk after the 
received that peai e had been dei lared. 
lion received a fresh inipeltis, and a greater degree 
of prospi-rits soon bei ante apiKirent. 



news was 
Immigra- 



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ME\ OF NEW )C)A'A—irESrEJiA- SECT/OX 



By the lime the lad had reached the age of fifteen 
the village of Buffalo had become a thriving town, 
and already gave unmistakable evidence of its future 
leadership in the affairs of that jjart of the state. 
Thither he went, accordingly, and obtained employ- 
ment in the post office, where the entire force of 




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assistants consisted of himself and another boy. 
'i'hree years later he entered the dry-goods store of 
S. N. Callender as a clerk, remaining there for the 
ne.xt five years — four years with Mr. Callender and 
one year with J. P. Darling. Mercantile life ])roved 
attractive to Mr. Howard, and he displayed marked 
ability for it ; and in 183(i he started in business for 
himself as a member of the dry-goods firm of Dole 
& Howard. The style was subseipiently changed 
to Fitch I.V Howard, then to Howard & Cogswell, 
Howard & W'hitcomb, and Howard, Whitcomb & 
Co. ; and in 1865 the busine.ss was sold to the 
present firm of Flint iS: Kent. Mr. Howard's 
excellent judgment, honoraltle and U])right methods, 
and careful business management brought him un- 



usual success ; and during the thirty years of his 
connection with the firm it attained a foremost posi- 
tion among the retail houses of the city. 

After severing his connection with the dry- 
goods business Mr. Howard as.sociated himself with 
Jose])h Warren, J. M. Johnson, and others in the 
organization of the Courier Company. 
He was the treasurer of the concern 
during the years l(S()8-69, selling out his 
interest at the end of that time to Dr. 
Kenney, son-in-law of Dean Richmond. 
Since 1870 Mr. Howard has not been 
actively engaged in business life, though 
he holds important positions of trust in 
various organizations. He was a trustee 
and the second vice president of the 
Erie County Savings Bank, and a director 
of the Buffalo Gas Light Co. In 1882 
he assisted in founding the Bank of 
Niagara at Niagara Falls, and became 
a director of the institution ; and in 
18!!:^ he took |)art in the organization of 
the Columljia Bank, Buffalo, in which he 
is likewise a director. 

Mr. Howard's peaceful and ])n)sperous 
old age is a fitting close to an honorable 
and useful life. Though by nature sin- 
gularly ([uiet and unobtrusive, his high 
character as a business man and a (private 
citizen has won for him the res])ect of all 
who know him, and the warm affection 
of many friends. He has been for years 
a deacon in the Unitarian church, of 
which he is one of the oldest members. 
PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— 
FJ/kiii IIo7v Howard loas horn at Boston, 
Erie county, N. Y. , February hi, 1812 : 
7tias a clerk in the Buffalo post office, 
1S27—2S, anil in a Jry-gooJs store, 18S0- 
36 ; married Mary E. Rumsey of Stafford, N. Y. , 
October 2^, 1842, and Caroline H. Cogsiaell of Peter- 
borough, N. LI., September 1, IS^G ; engaged in the 
dry-goo:ls business at Buffalo, 18S(J-(i.') ; 7C'as treas- 
urer of the Courier Company, Buffalo, 1868-69 ; 
has occupied positions of trust in various corporations 
in Buffalo and vicinity since 1870. 



1bCnr\> C. 1l30\VauI> is thoroughly identified 
with the Queen City of the Lakes. His family set- 
tled in Buffalo in the early days of the city ; his 
fiither had an im|)ortant |)art in the commercial 
develoijnient of tiie [jlace ; and he himself was born 
there, educated there, married there, antl has always 
lived there. He believes in Buffalo heartily, and 



MEN or XKir iOA'A —II 7:sr/-: AW s/icr/ox 



.tyu 



has no wish ever to shift his allegiaiK e. Mr. 
Howard left school at the age of eighteen or nine- 
teen, anil gave himself up to business. He has 
never engaged in active commercial life of the 
routine countingroom order except for a few months 
early in his career. lOver since then his connection 
with business affairs has heen of thai more interest- 
ing and independent nature concerned with proprie- 
tary supervision. He has been president of the 
Hank of Niagara at Niagara Kails ever since it was 
organized in IXS'J. and vice jiresident of the Hank 
of Suspension Hriilge since its organization. Me 
was for some years vice president of the Columliia 
National Hank, Huffalo, and is a director in the 
Hank of HulTalo. 

In political matters .Mr. Howard su|>porls the 
ke|)ulilican |>arty. He does not care I'or |>arlici|ia- 
tion in public affairs, however, and has 
never taken an active ]>art in politics. 
His time is plea.santly oicupied, aside 
trom business hours, with his family and 
home. He is a member of the Huflalo 
flub, and of the I'.llitott flub. Karl\ 
in the summer he takes his family to a 
beautiful country seat on the banks of 
the Niagara river between Lewiston anil 
Yonngstown. Mr. Howard attends Trin- 
ity Church, Huffalo, of whii h he is a 
vestryman. 

PERSONA L C 11 R ONOL OGY — 
Henry Coj^s^oell lltmHinl was born at 
Buffalo Septfrnher 20, IS^T ; loas edu- 
cated in f'uhlic and f>ri-rate sdiooh : 
married Jennie Afati/da Jewett of Buffalo 
January 4, ISOO : lias demoted himself to 
various husiness enterprises and to the rare 
of the family estate si nee ISGii : has heen 
president of the Bank of Niagara, Nia/^ara 
Falls, \. v., since 1SS2. 



Tna. E. "kt^sclburob, 3r., well 

known in botii tiu- c.i>tcni and the western 
ends of the Km|)ire State, was born at 
Troy, N. Y., in l«.'>!t. He s]>ent the first 
thirty years of his life in that city, and 
received his education there and in 
All)any. .\t the time of his graduation 
from the 'I'roy High School in lX7o he 
had not fixed u|>on the practice of law 
as his vocation, and he began his active 
work in the world in the ca|);icity of reporter for the 
Troy Times. In 1«.h(I he obtained a position in the 
office of the secretary of state under |. H. Carr, and 
devoted his leisure hours to the studv of law. fon- 



tinuing this work more thoroughly in the celebrated 
law school at .\ll«n\, he received the degree of 
1. 1.. B. from that institution in 1XM2. He was 
admitted to the Iwr the next year, and commenced 
to practice in I'roy ( )ctober 1, IMX,">. 

.Mr. Kis.selbiirgh w;ls a.s.sociated with I.. V.. (Irif- 
fiih from October, ISS'), until Augu.st, l«S!t, when 
he (hanged his residence from Troy to HulTalo. In 
the latter city he practiced alone until Januarv 1, 
lX!i;{, forming at that time a |artnership with H. S. 
I^ry. This lonnei tion lasted until januarv, iMlt.'i, 
when he associated himself with C. H. Henneti in 
the firm of Kisselburgh \- Hennett. Mr. Kissel- 
burgh has spent most of his time in .Mbany since 
.May. lX!t4, and ha.^ therefore been unable lo gi\e 
minute attention to the affairs of his Huffalo clients. 
He has kept in touch, however, with the liusiness 




ir. K. KISSHI.nURCH. JK 

conneileil with his firms, and has given close atten- 
tion to the more imjiortant cases. 

Living so near the state capital, Mr. Kisselburgh 
began to be interested in public affairs at an earlv 



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MEN or .\7-:ir yo/^K—U-ESTERX SECr/O.X 



age. He has frc(|uenlly been a delegate to state 
conventions, and has otherwise been active in pobti- 
cal life. In l.S<)2 he was associated with Jndge 
LaughUn and Mr. Moot as special counsel for the 
Citizens' Committee of Buffalo organized to prevent 
election frauds. Mr. Kisst,'ll)urgh was especially 



altonicy-geneml of Neiu York state in ISfH : /ii7.i 
practiced la7v in Buffalo since 1889. 




CEORCR E. L.trr/MEK 

well (pialified for this work from his ex|)erience in 
Troy four years before, when he had assisted in the 
legal proceedings that caused the removal from the 
registration books of about 'idOO names wrongfully 
enrolled. Since May 1, l.S!)4, Mr. Kisselbnrgh has 
been one of the flejiuty attorney -generals of the 
state of New York, having been appointed to the 
office by Attorney-Crcneral Theodore V,. Hancock. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— William 
Edward Kisselh'.irgh, Jr., was horn at Troy, N. V., 
fanuarv 28, 1850 ; j^radi/ated from the Troy llii^li 
.Srlmol in 187 H, iind from the Albany Law School in 
1882 : married Helen Laura Kilfoile of Troy May 
12, 1880 ; 7('as admitted to the bar in 1S8S ; prac- 
ticed laiu in Troy, 1885-89 ; was appointed deputy 



(Beorge E. Xattimcr, well known among 
the younger business men of Buffalo, was born in 
that city thirty-three years ago. .^fter attending 
the ])ublic schools of Buffalo until he 
was sixteen years old, he made an early 
start on his commercial career by en- 
gaging on his own account in the busi- 
ness of carting coal, ice, and sand. He 
su])|)lietl the sand for some of the largest 
buildings in Buffalo, and built up a 
nourishing liusiness. Having shown so 
uuich abilitv while still in his teens, Mr. 
l.attimer developed even more rapidh 
with increased experience. He attracted 
favorable notice among the business men 
of the city ; and one of them, William S. 
(1 rattan, wa.s glad to form a partnership 
with the young man. In the s]jring of 
1<SS(;, accordingly, the firm of Crattan 
& Lattimer was organized for the purpose 
of carrying on a business in general 
freight con tra( ting. 

This venture proved succe.sstul from 
the beginning. Little else could have 
been expected in view of Mr. (Irattan's 
broad business exjierience, Mr. I.attimer's 
s|)ecial training in the carrying industry, 
and the excellent judgment of both 
partners. They were the first firm in 
Buffalo to contra( t with the railroads to 
handle their package freight, and they 
made such contracts with the Lacka- 
wanna, New \ ork Central, and Lehigh 
Valley railroads. The firm employs at 
all times a large number of men, and 
in the busy season as many as a thousand 
arc on its pa\ roll. .\t the time of the sound-money 
parade in Buffalo in the presidential campaign of 
|S!I(), Mr. Lattimer man lied at the head of 500 or 
more eni|)loyees of his firm. Mr. ('.rattan has very 
important business interests outside of this concern, 
and necessarily leaves the management of (irattan tV 
Lattimer affairs to the junior partner. 

As for |)crsonal (pialities miconnected with busi- 
ness, reference may be made to Mr. Lattimer's great 
interest in horses. He has owned at differeni 
limes some of the fastest trotters ever seen on the 
magnificent ])arkways of Buffalo. Karly in ISilT he 
was one of the prime movers in the jiroposed speed 
way running along Scajaipiada (reek in the rear of 
the Buffalo State Hospital. 



.UKX OF .\v;;r yoh'K~ir/:sTEK.\ sect/o\ 



I'll 



Mr. I^attimcr is a devoted Ma.son, and is a mem- 
ber ol all the liodies of that oriler up to and in< hid- 
ing the ."{'id tlegree. He belongs to |)eMt)lay 
Lodge. No. 4;»K, V. fc .\. M. ; liulTalo I'liapter. No. 
71, k. .\. M. ; l-ake Krie C"ommandery, No. 20, 
K. I'. ; HufTalo t'ouncil ; and Ismailia Temple, 
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs likewise 
to the .Masonic- social organization calleil the .Vcacia 
Club. 

J'JiKSO.WU. C//A'O.VOLOi;i — Giwx.- 
/u/jcit/i/ I.allinur wat horn at Hiiffalo Jiiiu- /.'/, 
ISIilf ; leas filucalcii in the Ihiffalo fiiihlic schools .- 
fnga;^eil in a i^eneral liiilin;^ Inisiness in Itiiff'ah, 
ISSOSit : marrifil Annie Jones of liiifftih Df(fm- 
her 10, ]SfX) ; has heen a member of the firm of Ural- 
tan e>' /.altimer, t^eneral freii^hl contraelors, since 
ISStl. 

.^Oi^cph /iDU'Cbha lo'iyiu bi^^ «a\ 

10 an enviable position in the niusii a! 
worlil of Buffalo by dint of energ\ and 
perseverance, coupled with natural gilts 
of a high order. His success is the 
more interesting and noteworthy from 
the (iict that his training as a musician 
has been obtaineii altogether in Huf 
falo. He was not born in that city, 
but was brought thither at the age of 
six by his [jarents. I'he latter were in 
humble cirnnnstances, and were unable 
to give their son much educ ation. .M'ler 
attentling a kindergarten in his native 
Bohemia, antl one of the Buffalo juiblic 
schools, he entered the |)arochial si houl 
connected with St. Louis Church, Buffalo. 
It was evident early in life that he 
|)Os.sessed unusual musical talent, and his 
jKirents determined to foster this gift as 
much as po.ssible. At the age of seven, 
accordingly, they obtained a cham e for 
him to study the violin ; and he became 
a member of the orchestra that then look 
the place of an organ in St. Louis Church. 
.\ little later he tieveloped a fine \oice, 
and was made the principal alto in the 
choir. His gifts attracted (he attention 
of the Rev. William Heilers, who was 
an ardent lover of music and who be- 
came the good genius of the boy. lather 
Deiters was posses.sed of an am|)le for- 
tune, and he gave the young musician many advan- 
tages that would not otherwise have been his. 

.\t the age of thirteen Joseph Mischka left s< hool 
to become an err.ind box fur Blodgell .V Bradford, 



music dealers. The connection became something 
more than a business one, since Mr. Blodgett reiog- 
ni/ed the talent of his employee, and helped him in 
various ways to .ti >piire a musical education. Voung 
Mischka niaile the most of these op|>ortiinitii-s, anil 
at the age of fifteen was siifHciently .idvanced in his 
studies to become ihj organist of the North Presby- 
terian Church Sunday s< hool. Soon after this he 
obtained the |Mxsition of organist at Calvary I'resby- 
terian Church. From there he went to Westminster, 
and thence successively to the old Cnitarian Church, 
to the I'niversalisi, and to St. I'aiil's. l-iach of 
these I hanges constituted a step in a«lvance as re- 
gards both dignity of |iosition and compensation. 
It may be s;iid, indeed, that in all the numerous 
changes made by .Mr. Mischka, he never gave up a 
pLace e.\< ept by Mihmiary resignation to accept 




JOSF.I'II MISi UK. I 

another position in the line of promotion. His 
house is filled with valuable gifts received at various 
times from the soi ieties and chiinhes with which he 
has been connei leil. 



402 



MEN OF NEW YORK —WESTERN SECTION 



While organist of the Westminster Church, Mr. 
Mischka began his career as conductor of singing 
societies by taking charge of the newly organized 
Arion Society. This was a chorus of mixed voices, 
and its concerts, conducted by .Mr. Mischka, were 
very popular. In lS(i,S he became chorus master of 




DAMIil. OiUiAnV 

the Caroline Richings Opera Co., with which he 
remained one year. Returning to Buffalo at the 
end of that period, he found the Liedertafel direc- 
torship vacant, and wa.s asked to conduct rehearsals 
until the position should be permanently filled from 
abroad. He was so well liked, however, that the 
idea of sending to P^urope for a leader was aban- 
doned ; and Mr. Mischka remained in the |)osition 
twenty-four years, with an interruption of two years 
between 1877 and l!S71). On his retirement in the 
fall of 1894 the office of honorary director was 
created in order to bestow it u])on him. 

Mr. Mischka wa.s the local musical director of the 
Saengerfest of the North American Saengcrbund 
held in Buffalo in l.sS.'i, comprising 3000 singers 



and 100 musicians, and of the great musical festivals 
held in that city in 1.884, 1885, and 1887. He was 
director of the Vocal Society from 1887 to 1894, 
and brought that organization to a high pitch of ex- 
cellence. For the last twenty-seven years, with the 
exception of two years between 1880 and 1882, Mr. 
Mischka has been organist of Temple 
Beth Zion : and since 1887 he has been 
organist at the Delaware .\venue Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church. Since 1873 he 
has been professor of music in the Buf- 
falo State Normal School. Having been 
appointed in the fall of 1894 supervisor 
of music in the Buffalo public schools, 
he found the responsibility of this position 
so great that he severed his connection 
with the Liedertafel and with the Vocal 
Society. He now has (iO,000 children 
in his charge. It is his ambition and 
aim, not onlv to teach music to the chil- 
dren for their own sake, but also to furnish 
capable singers to the chorus masters of 
the next generation. 

.\s a promoter of music in Buffalo no 
man has a record sujierior to that of 
Mr. Mischka. He has always been active 
in su])j)ort of musical enterprises, and 
has never been sparing of his time or 
strength in furthering their success. His 
generosity toward his colleagues is well 
kf- j known, and many a young musician 
dates his career from the time when Mr. 
Mischka brought him to public notice. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY — 

Joseph iMischka was born at Hermaii- 

inestec, Austria, May 8, 1846 ; came to 

the United States in 1852, and settled 

in Buffalo; 7iias chorus master of an 

opera troupe, 18()8-60 ; engaged in fiusi- 

ness as music dealer and publisher, 1869 — 72; 

married Catherine Dietz of Buffalo September 5, 

1871 ; was director of the Buffalo Liedertafel, 

1870-77 and 1870-9^ ; has held various prominent 

positions as teacher of music and as church organist 

in Buffalo since 1870. 



H)aniel 0'(5ra^\?, one of the deputy excise 
commissioners a])|H)intcd under the famous Raines 
law of 189(1, was born in Rochester, N. Y., a .short 
time before the outlireak of the Civil War. His 
father carried on a prosperous business in Rochester 
for many years, and there the young man ac(|uired 
his education and early business experience. After 
attending the public schools of the Flower City he 



.u/:x OF .v/:ir vokk—ivestek.x s/:ct/o.\ 



4<t.! 



took a course at Bryant & Stratton's Business Col- 
lege, graduating from the institution in due time. 

Mr. ()'(;ra(ly's real start in the world was made 
in IMX.'), when he shifted his residence from Roch- 
ester to Buffalo, and estalilishcd him.self in business 
in the latter city. He selected for his field of 
operations a (art of Buffalo that was then very 
sjarscly settled — the extreme eastern section of the 
city. .Much of this neighiiorhootl is now given up 
to prosperous manufactories, railroad yards, slaughter- 
houses, and cattle |jens ; but when Mr. O'drady 
established a grocery at the corner of Broadway anil 
Bailey avenue most of the land near him was used 
for farming purposes. It was evident, however, that 
the industrial growth of Bufl'alo was likely to move 
in that direction ; and Mr. O'tlrady soon had plenty 
of neighbors. .\ large Polish population ultimately 
occu|iicd the territory tributary to his 
business, and he came to know the 
people well, and to have considerable 
iiilluen<e with them. .Several railroail 
and other strikes, of long duration and 
I orresjionding .severity to employees and 
their tradesmen, have occurred at East 
Buffalo since .Mr. O'CJrady went there; 
but he has weathereti every such indus- 
trial gale, though some other < ommercial 
craft have foundered. 

Under the circumstances indicate<l in 
the foregoing statement of Mr. ( )'( Irady'.s 
I areer in I-'.ast Buffalo, it was natural for 
him to take an interest in public affairs, 
and to ac(|uire considerable importance 
in local politics. There seems, indeed, 
to be a tenilency of that kind in the 
familv, since Mr. O'drady's brother, 
James .M. 1-^. D'Crady of Rochester, has 
long been |)rominent in the jjolitics of 
.Monroe countv, and is now speaker of 
the state assembly. Daniel < )'( Irady ha,-, 
been identified with the Republican or- 
ganization in Buffalo for the last ten 
years as district and general committee- 
man, and has an imjiortant |iersonal 
following in his part of the city. He 
has not cared to hold political office, 
however ; and never did so until .April, 
l.S!l(!, when H. H. Lyman, stale commis- 
sioner of excise, appointed him one of 
his deputies, with head(|uartersat BufTalo. 

Mr. O'Cirady has given his chief attention to busi- 
ness and politics. He belongs to various fraternal 
.a.ssociations, however, such as the order of Klks, the 
Red Men, and the Knights of I'vthias. He is 



naturally a member of the Buffalo Republican 
League, and has ser\-ed on the executive committee 
of the organization. 

/'/■:iiSO\.4L Cll ROXOl.OaV— Diinifl 
O ' iiriu/y ji'iis hirii at Km half r I-fl>ruai\ 1 7 , IStJ I ; 
was educated in common schools and Bryant &" Strat- 
ton' s Hiisiness Collcj^e : married F.liuihelh Afa/oney 
<•/ Sfiencer/Hirt, A', y. , January .{it, ISSl ; was a/- 
f>oinlfd deputy excise commissioner for Ituffaio in April, 
IS'.H) ; has been in business at F.ast Buffalo since 
lS8r>. 

30bn IIO\VU!?Cn^ plthlH »•» born in Wayne 
county, .New York, somewhat less than forty years 
ago. The I'itkin family has had an im|iortant |>art 
in the history of .Vmerii a ever since William I'itkin, 
the third governor of Connecticut, was i hosen in 




Ji>ll\ TOWSSESn PITKIX 

l7-»4 to pre|>arc a plan of union for the colonies. 
There were five other members of this committee 
including the chairman, Benjamin Franklin. .Xmong 
the descendants of this I'ilkin niav be found three 



4(14 



MEy OF A'Eir YORK— WESTERN SECT/ON 



judges of supreme courts, one United States senator, 
two state governors, members of congress and state 
legislatures, and many men prominent in profes- 
sional and commercial life. 

Our ])resent subject went to the union school in 
his native town of Palmyra, and after moving to 
Buflalo in early youth attended the well-known 
Heathcote School, a private institution of excellent 
standing. At the age of si.xteen he closed his books, 
not expecting then ever to resume systematic aca- 
demic training. He had always taken great interest 
in electrical subjects, and his first venture in the 
outer world was made as an electrician, line repairer, 
and operator for the Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Co. 
This was in 1874. The next year he made a com- 
mercial hit by running "electric light" excursions 
from Buffalo to Niagara Falls. The arc light was 
then just i oming into general use ; and the viewing 
of the Falls in the new light, variously and bril- 
liantly colored, became a popular pastime. In liSTti 
he entered the service of the Central-Hudson road 
at Buffalo as train dispatcher, telegraph operator, 
and ticket agent. The next year he was employed 
by the Buffalo police department as chief telegraph 
operator ; and in 1879 he became an operator for 
the Western Union company at Buffalo. 

Deciding to follow a ])rofessional rather than a 
business career, and having a strong inclination 
toward the stutly of medicine, Mr. Pitkin entered 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons at New 
V'ork in 18<S1, and afterward attended the medical 
department of the University of Buflalo. He 
received from the latter institution in 1.S,S4 the 
degree of M. 1). , obtaining at graduation the dis- 
tinction of an "honorable mention." I'or several 
years after this he tutored metlical students at the 
University of Buffalo with much succe.ss. ()])ening 
an office in Buffalo .soon after he obtained his degree, 
Dr. Pitkin carried on an increasingly large general 
])ractice for over a decade. His early interest in 
electrical matters was maintained all the time, 
naturally taking a direction harmonious with his 
]jrofessional work. 

The ap|)lication of electrical .si ience to surgery 
and general therapeutics has become of great im|)or- 
tance in recent years, and Dr. Pitkin has devoted a 
good deal of time to the study of the subject, 'i'his 
investigation convinced him of the wide usefulness 
of electricity in the art of healing, and he decided 
to specialize his work to a considerable extent in 
this line. He founded, accordingly, in November, 
189(), the Buffalo I-^lectrical Sanitarium, with execu- 
tive offices in Ellicott Square and branches at 2()(i 
Connectic ut street and (illl Prospec t avenue. This 



experiment has already proved .successful, and Dr. 
Pitkin has at times more patients than he can easily 
care for. He has taken great interest in the " X- 
ray " discovery as related to surgical operations, and 
has done a good deal to jwpularize exact and useful 
knowledge of the subject. He has contributed 
articles to the Buffalo Mediail Journal on stomach 
and peritoneal wa.shing and on hemorrhages from 
the nostrils. 

On the personal side, mention may be made of 
Dr. Pitkin's interest in military affairs. In 1<S7!I he 
organized company F of the 74th regiment, N. G., 
S. N. Y., serving as captain of the company for 
some time ; and he is now a member of the Buffalo 
City Cuard Cadet Association. In jjolitics he is a 
Republican, and received the nomination of his 
|)arty for alderman in 1887. He has observed 
c losely the territorial expansion of Buffalo, and has 
made some successful ventures in real-estate opera- 
tions. He is a member of the First Presbyterian 
Church of BulTalo. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— John Town- 
send Pitkin was born at l^alniyra, N. Y., May 8, 
1858 : attended Palmyra Union School and LLeathcote 
School, Buffalo ; held various positions as electrician 
and telegraph operator, 1874-81 : studied medicine, 
and graduated from the medical department of the 
University of Buffalo in 188^ : married Lizzie Simons 
Youngs of Buffalo March ^, 1880: has practiced 
medicine in Buffalo since 1884 



anC>rC\V 5. IRobCrtSOU was bom in Dela- 
ware county. New York, in 18.')1. After attending 
district schools and the academy in his native town, 
teaching at intervals and boarding around among 
the farmers in the old-fashioned way, he sought 
higher instruction in Delaware Academy at Delhi, 
N. Y. At the age of tw-enty he entered Cornell 
University with the class of '7'), hoping to take the 
full I ourse. He was obliged to meet his own ex- 
penses, and after working his way along through the 
freshman year he decided that it would not pay to 
t'ollow such a life for three years more. 1 le did not, 
however, gi\e up the idea of studying law ; and after 
teaching Cerman for a year at Delaware .\cademy 
he began to prepare himself in an office at Delhi for 
the bar examinations. He studied thus three years, 
sup])orting himself by his labor, and wa.s admitted to 
the bar in the fall of 1876. 

Beginning jiractice at once in Delhi, Mr. Robert- 
son concluded after a few months that he need not 
hesitate to pit himself against the legal lights of a 
larger ]>lace ; and in March, 1877, accordingly, he 
opened an offic e in F.lmira. .\fter practicing alone 



.I/AW (»/•• .\7:";r )i)A'A--ii7:sr/:A'x s/scr/ox 



4(>-, 



until January, 1880, he formed a |jartner^hi|i with 
(iabriel L. Smith, ex-county juiIk"-'- 'he firm of 
Smith & Robertson carried on a successful practice 
until January 1, 1H«!I. At that time Mr. Robertson 
a.s.sociated himself with John Hull, Jr., and the next 
year I)ix \V. Smith was admitted to the imrtnership. 
The firm of Robertson, Smith & Hull 
continued initil the senior |arlner moved 
to HutTalo in .\pril, lh!t;{. 

Mr. Robertson had then practiced in 
KImira sixteen years, anil had, of course, 
formed valuable business connections ; 
but he felt sure that Hufl'alo was destineil 
to become a large city, and he knew 
that the abler members of the letjal pro- 
fession must share in such prosperity. 
He has been in HuHald only four years 
now, but has already attained a position 
of prominence at the loial liar ; and the 
predii tion may safely be matle that he 
will repeat in I'lrie county his earlier 
siKcess in the Southern Tier. 

Like many other lawyers, Mr. Robert- 
son has been much concerned with [joI- 
itics ; but unlike many |>eople so occu- 
pied, he has not at any time sought 
public office. Mis interest in the sub- 
ject has been that of a public-spirited 
citi/.en, believing heartily in the prin< i 
pies of the Republican p;irty, and iryinj; 
to promote the greatest good of the 
greatest number in all pro])er ways. 
During his later years in I'Mmira Mr. 
Robert.son frei|uently acted as counsel for 
Republii an organizations in election i on 
tests ; and he <levoteil a gt)od deal of 
time to the work of instructing election 
officer>i as to their legal rights and duties 
on voting days. He is thoroughly in- 
fomietl in these matters, and the cainjuign managers 
of Huffalo have availeil them.selves of his .services in 
every election since he went to that lity. He has 
also been prominently connei ted with the ( lood 
(Jovernment Clubs of HulTalo, having a.sso( iated him- 
self with the movement from the beginning. He 
has acted as legal .idviser for the organization, aiul 
rendered special service in conducting the investiga- 
tion into the management of the Krie-coimty alms- 
house in I.s!((i-!I7. 

.•\side from professional and ]>oliti<al work, Mr. 
Robert.son has con<erne»l himself with several inter- 
esting subjei Is. He was one of the early devotees 
of cycling, and was a c harter member and the first 
presiiK-nt nf the Kannwcol.i Hicvi Ir Chibnf I'.lmira. 



He is an elocutionist of tiecidcd talent, anil h.is 
freipiently read in public in a semi-professional way. 
He is jurticularly interested in the study of Shakes 
peare, and is presiilent of one of the Shakespeare 
dulis of HulTalo. He has written somewhat for pub- 
lication at various times, and was the |>oet of his 




.IXnKKllJ. ROliF.KTSO.y 

cla.s.s at Cornell. He has been for many years a 
member of the /.eta I'hi fraternity of Helhi, and 
was the ])oet at its annual dinner in 1S74. He is 
a (harter member of the Independent Club of 
Huffalo, and was the president thereof for the first 
two years of its existence. 

PERSOiYA I. CIIK O XOL O iiV — Amimo 
Janus Rtiherlson was Iwrii at Amies, Df /aware coiinly, 
X. )'., Afarc/i -in, IS.'tl .- a/tnnie,/ i/is/riet uhiH>/( and 
aeaifeniies <»//</ Cornell I 'niirrsitv : 7oas ailmitleil lo 
the bar in 1S70, anii praclieeii in Delhi, N. Y., 
lS7<!-~7 : marrieil Marllia llayt Tlwmf>son of F.lmira. 
X. ) '. , Deieni/>er /.'/, IS7S ; firaetieeii law in F.lniira, 
lS77-!i-{ .■ lias />raffi<eii Ani' in Huffalo since April, 
JSU.l. 



40f'. 



MK\ OF \Eir VORK — irKSrKhW SKCT/OX 



Jacob Jf. SCbOClllJOpf, a veritable "captain 
of industry," and widely respected in western New- 
York for his character and personal ([ualities, was 
horn in Kirchheim-unter- Teck, a small town of 
Wiirttemberg, Germany, in 181!). After attending 
the schools of his native town initil he was fourteen 




jAcnn /■: sciior.i.i.Kopr 

years old, he began his business life by becoming an 
apprentice in his father's tannery. The tanner's 
trade might almost be regarded as a |)art of Mr. 
Schoellkopf's inheritance, since both his father and 
his grandfather had been conspicuously successful in 
the business. Having served as an apprentice the 
full term of five years, Jacob Schoellko])f broadened 
his industrial training l)y following a clerkship in a 
mercantile house for about two years. European 
emigration to the L'nited States had already begun 
on a considerable scale, and Mr. Schoellkopf w-as 
sufficiently ambitious and foresightful to wi.sh a part 
in the movement. Continued reflection only (on- 
firmed his jnirpose ; and in December, 1841, when 
twenty-two years old, he landed in New York citv. 



Utterly ignorant of the English language, Mr. 
Schoellkopf was forced at first to accept the readiest 
employment at hand, and he naturally reverted to 
his old trade. After following this for two years in 
New York city, he moved to Buffalo in 1844, and 
established a small leather store on Mohawk street. 
His capital was limited to S8()(), which 
his father had loaned him. .Seeing at 
once that he had made no mistake in 
committing himself to business, Mr. 
Schoellkoiif .soon embarked in a more 
ambitious venture by purchasing a small 
tannery at White's Corners ( Hamburg), 
near Buffalo. His early training was in- 
valuable to him in this enterprise, and 
ensured his success. In two years, or 
in 184(), he enlarged his ojjerations by 
starting a sheepskin tannery in Buffalo ; 
in 1848 he established a tannery in Mil- 
waukee ; and in 1850 still another tan- 
nery at Chicago resulted from his inces- 
sant activity. 15oth the Milwaukee and 
the Chicago tanneries are still in success- 
ful operation, though Mr. Schoellkopf 
withdrew his interest from them a few 
\ ears after their establishment. In 185.'i 
he started another tannery at Fort 
Wayne, Ind., and in 18.^4 yet another, 
at North I'Lvans, N. Y., conducting the 
latter plant with unusual success for 
twenty years. In 18(54 he bought a site 
for a tannery at Sheffield, Penn., then a 
part of the wilderness, and built \\\i there 
a remarkably successful industry. He is 
now the senior proprietor of one of the 
large.st sheep.skin tanneries in the L'nited 
State.s, located in Buffalo. 

In 1857 Mr. Schoellkojif engaged in 
the milling industry by erecting the 
North Buffalo Flouring Mills. His wonderful busi- 
ness ability brought him success in the new de- 
parture, and he ultimately became one of the largest 
millers in the Empire State. In 1870 he bought 
the Frontier Mills in Buffalo, and subsequently 
erected extensive flouring mills at Niagara Falls. 
He is the senior partner in the famous milling firm 
of Schoellkopf dv Mathews. 

Mr. Schoellkopf's brilliant success in the manage- 
ment of his own vast enter|)rises has induced the 
directors of various corporations to seek his aid ; 
and in some cases he has been willing to accept such 
directorates, or to share otherwise in the manage- 
ment of imjiortant corporations. He was vice- 
])resident of the liuffalo. New York tS: l'hiladel]ihia 



M/:x or SEW vork— wester \ sectios 



41 IT 



railroad before its sale to the present Western New 
York & Pennsylvania comiKiny. For a long time he 
was vice ])resident of the Third National Hank, 
Biiffalo ; and he is still a director in several lianks in 
HufTaio and Niajjara Falls. He is also a ilirectur 
and the president of the Citizens' (las Co., Buffalo. 
He has been a trustee of the Huftalo Ceneral Hos- 
pital since it was founded. His varied industrial 
enter|jriscs at Niagara Falls gave him special interest 
in the water power there, and in 1H77 he bought the 
Hydraulic canal at the Falls. Seeing clearly (he 
economic possibilities of the undeveloped Niagara 
|>ower, he began at once to improve the property ; 
and many large mills, manufacturing ixijier, llour, 
aluminium, and other important jiroducts, are now 
using the canal. About 2(1, OHO horse power is now 
produced, but this quantity will be greatly increa.sed 
when proposed enlargements and im 
provements of the (anal and power 
.station are completeil. For the purjiose 
of developing the property Mr. Schoell 
kopf, soon after he bought the canal, 
organized the Niagara Falls Hydraulic 
I'ower \- Manufacturing Co., of which 
he is still president. 

Mr. Schoellkopf went l>ack to Furopc 
for the first time in l.sr>:^, and since 
then he has revisited his native land 
on many occasions. Though he is now 
in his seventy-eighth year, he still enjoys 
excellent health, and enters ac tivel\ inlo 
business and social life. 

I'EKSOXAL CIIROXOLOGY — 
J lit oil Frr tie rick ScluieiilinfiJ 7i'<i< /wrn a I 
Kirihluim-unter- Teck, Germany, Xo- 
I'emlier I'l, IS lit; loas eiiiitiilfii in (iei 
man stiioo/s, ami iearneJ liie tanner's 
trade in Itis natirr ianti : came to lli< 
United States in ISJ^l, and settled in 
Buffalo in January, JS44 • married 
Christiana Sophie Duerr of Kirchheim- 
unterTeek March li, 1SJ,8 : has leen 
engaged in the tanning Imsiness since 
Iftii, in milling since 1S57, and in the 
management of T'arious corporations foi 
many years. 

XOUiS ScbOClllJOPt «as born in 
Buffalo somewhat more than forty years 
ago, of (lerman jkirents. He was 
favored with unusually carefid tin'tion. .Attending 
j)rivate schools until the age of ten, he then 
studied for four years in Ciermany, his father having 
a high opinion of the thorough training to be 



obtained there. This excellent educational ground- 
work facilitated further training in Buffalo by 
private teachers, at St. Joseph's College, and at 
Bryant & Stratton's Bitsiness College. 

'The mention of the last-named institution shows 
the character of the career on which Mr. Schoell- 
kopf had decided. It was natural and easy for him 
to choose a mercantile life, since his father, Jacob 
F. Schoellkopf, had vast business interests, and 
wished to have his son versed in commercial affairs. 
.\t the age of eighteen, therefore, Mr. Schoellkopf 
went to work in his father's tannery, learning the 
tanner's trade there thoroughly in the c ourse of the 
next four years. If heredity counts for anything in 
such matters, the young man had every rea.son to 
take kindly to this oc c u|>;ition : since his grandfather 
and his great-grandfather had been tanners in Ccr- 




l.Ol'/S SCHOKI.I.KOt'l 

manv. and his father, after learning the trade in his 
native land, had i-stablished himself in the same 
business in Buffalo thirty years before. Having 
acijuired a firm grasp of the business, I.ouis 



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M/:\ OF XF.W YORK — IVKSri: AW SFC/VCV 



SclioellkopI thought it a(l\isal)le to set ii]i a plant of 
his own ; and in 1.S77, accordingly, he formed a [jart- 
nership with his brother Henry, under the style of 
J. F. Schoellkopfs Sons. This firm conducted a 
successful tanning business imtil Henry Schoellkopf 
died in 1S80, when a new firm was organized, con- 
sisting of l.oiiis anil Alfred P. Schoellkopf and John 
Russ. This organization was well planned, and the 
concern has transacted a large volume of business. 
The original firm name is still used. 

.Mr. Schoellkopf has been cont erned with various 
business undertakings, both in Huffalo and elsewhere, 
aside from that just described. In connection with 
his father and brother, he has devoted much time of 
late years to a munber of enterprises in Niagara 
Falls, including the Power City P.ank, International 
hotel. Cliff Paper Co., and Niagara Falls Hydrauli( 
Power & Manufacturing Co. 

In the social life of Buffalo Mr. Schoellkopf is 
highly regarded ; and as a lifelong resilient of the 
Queen City, and a trusted and trustworthy citizen, 
he has an extensive circle of friends. In ])olitical 
matters his sympathies are with the Republican 
party, and he is a member of the Buffalo Republican 
League ; but he has taken no active part in |jolitics, 
and has never sought nor held public office. He 
attends the Westminster Presbyterian Church, and 
is a member of the Westminster Club. He belongs, 
also, to the I'^lliiott Club, the Merchants' Exchange, 
the Orpheus Singing Society, and the Charity 
Organization. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL OGY— Loius 
Schoellkopf was born at Buffalo March 25, ISii'j ; 
stiidied in Buffalo schools and colleges and in Ger- 
many ; learned the tanner' s trade in Buffalo, 187 ■!- 
77 ; married Myra Lee llorlon of Sheffield, Penn. , 
May IS, 18S1 ; has been cn;^aged in the tannery 
business in Buffalo since 1877 as a member of the 
firm of J. F. Schoellkopf s Sons. 

TRo^iicv? /iDacainlcY? XTavLor i^ a type of 

many distinguished Americans, who have by their 
own efforts risen from [>overty to affluence. Colonel 
Taylor himself is fond of saying that "the good 
Lord is sure to helj) them that try to hel[) them- 
selves in this glorious coimtry of ours — the very 
best that the world has ever known." 

In the spring of 1H47 Mr. Taylor was a clerk in a 
commission and shijjping house on Broad street. New 
York city. When returning from the bank one day 
he met face to face an officer in imiform, who proved 
to be his brother. Captain Taylor, just arrived from 
Mexico, .\fter the capture of V'era Cru/., (leneral 
Scott had ordered Captain laylor to go to Cincinnati 



on some army business, and his lirother Rodney 
decided to accompany him thither. I'he two went 
West together, accordingly, by way of Buffalo. 
Colonel Taylor remembers clearly how he and his 
brother registered at the Mansion House June 7, 
1847 — the twenty-second anniversary, as they were 
told, of the hanging of the three Thayer brothers in 
Niagara square. Captain Taylor took a steamer from 
Buffalo to Cleveland en route to Cincinnati ; but the 
younger brother, having received an offer of a clerk- 
ship in a dry -goods store on Main street, resolved to 
accept the opportunity, and make Bul'falo his perma- 
nent abiding-place. 

Mr. Taylor had not been in Buffalo long before 
the dry-goods business became dull, and at his own 
reipiest he was released from service. He had 
deposited in a bank on his arri\al in Buffalo a few 
hundred dollars, which he now drew out, and devoted 
to the purchase of a carload of cheese. He sold this 
in central New York in six days, returning to Buf- 
falo with a clear jjrofit of $107. This successful 
transaction led to further ventures in the same direc- 
tion, and in the spring of 1848 Mr. 'Taylor felt 
competent to manage a grocery and provision busi- 
ne.ss of his own. He established such a store, 
accordingly, on Main street near where the 'Tifl't 
House now stands. 'The sequel showed that he had 
not overrated his powers, and in 1849 he opened 
another store near the northeast corner of Main and 
Swan streets. He enjoyed a prosperous trade until 
December, l.sr)4, when he closed out his business in 
order to go to Florida for the health of his wife. 

After returning from the West Indies, whither he 
had gone from Florida, Mr. 'Taylor devoted himself 
for a few years to his real-estate interests in Buffalo 
and Erie county. In the spring of 1858 he cleared 
away the trees and stum|)s on some of his land in the 
southern part of the city, and erecteil the house in 
which he has since dwelt. Soon after this he began 
to take a prominent part in public affairs. In the 
iall of 18(i() he was nominated for the office of super- 
visor, and in the following year he was elected alder- 
man I'rom thcl.'ith ward, Buffalo. 

In the War of the Rebellion Colonel 'Taylor had 
an active and highly patriotic part. In 18()2 he 
became one of the government enrolling officers, 
ami in November of that year he was made one of a 
connnittee of three from the 1 .'5th ward to raise 
fimds, and otherwise recruit the northern armies. As 
soon as the draft of his ward was lompleted, he went 
to New York, purchased there a imiforin for himself 
and clothing and other ei|uipments for soldiers, and 
obtained authority from the governor of the state at 
.\lbanv to raise recruits for the I'ith New York 



.I/AW ('/•" .\A"/»' iOA'A —If/: s/j:a-\ .VAt/yo.V 



4l)'.i 



volunteer cavalry. Returning to Buffalo then, he 
unfurled the L'nited States tlag from his office 
on Main street, over handbills headetl " Recruit.. 
Wanted." After only two weeks of hard work and 
consideralilc expense — there was no liounty |>aid for 
recruits at that time — Colonel Taylor was al>le In 
send out of HulTalo on December S, 1H(>"J, 1(I2 men. 
Having received a captain's commission December 
l."{, he recruited four more com|«nies of a hundred 
men each. On January .">, IHIU, he was (ommis- 
sioned major, .\fter having been honorably mus- 
tered out July 1!(, IHIJ.'), he was madea first lieutenant 
in the regular army July 2)S, lS(i(i. This appoint- 
mcnt was the more gratifying as it came entirel) 
without solicitation on folonel Taylor's |>;irt, at a 
time when many officers who had served in the I'ivil 
War were making strenuous efforts to obtain com- 
missions in the regular arm\. t'olonel 
I'avlor was personally recommended lor 
the honor by President (Irani and Set re- 
tary Stanton : and as he felt imwilling. 
for family reasons, to serve in the cav- 
alry, to whi( h he was first appoinleil, he 
was transferred lo ihe \'2lh infantry, and 
later to the "Jdth infantry. lie was 
made «aptain October 22, IS7(>. He 
was also brevetted, for faithful and meri- 
torious service, lieutenant colonel and 
colonel, .\fter serving at many posts 
in the regular army for nearly twenty 
years, he was honorably retireil by act 
of congress, for age, September lit, 1SX4. 

Since then folonel Taylor has devoted 
himself for the most |iari lo ihe develoji- 
ment of his i»roperty in South liulTalo. 
He has effected manv improvements in 
that part of the city, and has ra<licall> 
changed the general aspe( t of the locality 
a.s a ])lace of residence. He has |«id 
over S40,00t) in local ta.\es within a 
decade : and his annual lax lo city, 
county, aiul state has int rea.sed Ironi 
$2(MI to more than ten limes that amount. 

P/:/iSO.y.4L CHROXOLOCY — 
Rodiuy Macamlfy Taylor was horn at 
Drxiifii, Tomf<kins i-oiiii/v. A'. )'. , .S>/- 
Ifmher l!t, ISjn ; tcai d/iu-atei/ in common 
schools : 7oas a clerk in stores in New 
) ork city and Buffalo, IS^ 7-iS ; carried 
on a j^rocerv Imsincss in Buffalo, IS^S- 

X. v., 

IS^Jf, her sister Mary Beers June 
~'l, }Sr,l, and Sarah /. Dash of An.^ola, X. Y., 
February .», /.s'.»7 .■ was a commissioned officer in 



the volunteer army of the United States, tSfJJ-tJo, 
and in the re\;ulitr army, ISUUSi ; has been en- 
X'a^ed since ISS^ in the care and defelo/>men/ o/ his 
extensive properly. 

lUUliam li>aVl^ VClalilCr, recently ele.te.1 
bishop of the I'roleslant T^piscojal diocese of West- 
ern New \'ork, is a native of the Tlmpire State, and 
had a long career there as a jKirish prie>t : though in 
recent years he has been so thoroughlv idenlil°ie<l 
with the missionary work of the Nurlhwest that maii\ 
jieople think of him as a westerner only. 

Bishop Walker h.-ls born in New N'ork city in |M;i!l, 
aiul maile his home in the metropolis for more than 
forty \ears. Attending first the public schools, 
heafterwaril |ire|>;ire(l tor college at Trinity .S<hool, 
a cla.ssicd instilulinn of high standing in his 




.■>.{ .• married Klizaheth Beers of Jerusalem, 
September 4- 



KOltXIi Y .\f tr.i.ui.i-: J T I )/. OA- 

native city. .\t the age of sixteen he entered Co 
lumbia College, from which he graduated in 1H.")'.I, 
receiving the McVi<kar |)ri/e. He had already de- 
termined lo devote himself to the < hurch. and 



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MEN OF XEW VOKK—WESTERX SEiTlOX 



accordingly became a student at the General I'heo- 
logical Seminary in the same year. He completed 
the course there in l^fi'i, and received deacon's 
orders at the hands ot" Bishop Horatio Potter in the 
t'hurch of the 'rransfiguration on his twenty third 
birthday. 

He was at once elected vicar of t"alvar\ ( lia]icl, 
New York, and entered upon his work in tiie follow- 
ing October, serving also as special assistant in Cal- 
vary Church. On his next birthday, jimc 2!l, 1<S(').'!, 
he was ordained priest in Calvary Church. Hy 
the year liS7(l the building previously occupied b\ 
the chapel had bei ome too small for the ( ongregation, 
and the large church known as Calvary Free Chapel 
was built at an expense of SlSfl, ()()(). Here Bishop 
Walker labored until 1.S8.'], when he was chosen by 
the hou.se of i)isho|js first bi.shop of the missionary 
district of North Dakota. His consecration took 
place in Calvarv Church December lid, ISS.'!, Hisho]) 
Clark of Rhode Island aiting as consccratoi , and 
bishops I'ottcr and Clarkson as presenters. .Man\ 
other bishops assisted at the ceremony, including 
the two bishops l'addO( k, bishops l.iltlejohn, .Scar- 
borough, and .Starkey. The preacher on this occa- 
sion was Bishop Coxe, who had (jresented the new 
bishop for ordination to the jiriesthood in the same 
church twenty years l)efore. 

i\o greater contrast ( ould well be imagined than 
that between the conditions of work in a large and 
prosjierous city |)ari.sh and those in a district com- 
prising ISO, Odd souls scattered over 70,000 scpiare 
miles of territory. Hut Hishojj Walker posse.ssed the 
faith and devotion, the zeal and energy needed for 
his new work ; and the history of his years of labor 
in the .Northwest is a history of continued achieve- 
ment in the cause of Christianity and of general 
civilization. Many of those committed to his [)as- 
toral care were Indians, and much of his time and 
effort was given in behalf of this unfortunate race. 
In lfS.S7 he was appointed by President Cleveland 
one of the board of United States Indian c:ommis- 
sioners, a body often men having general oversight 
of the interests of the Indians throughout thecountrv : 
and he was ever the friend of the red man, and ac- 
complished much for his elevation. 

Bishoj) Walker's strong common sense and prac- 
tical methods of work were peculiarly well fitted for 
the administration of a missionary dioce.se. His 
"cathedral car" was one of the most effective ex- 
pedients for ministering to a scattered jiopulation 
that could possibly have been devised. The name 
is self-explanatory : a railway car was fitted up as a 
church, with altar, font, lectinn. and organ, and 
seats forabout se\enty-fi\e people ; and bv its means 



thou.sands who could not otherwise have been reached 
were brought into touch with the ministrations of 
the church. Its adajjtability to modern conditions 
was so strikingly evident that the idea has since been 
utilized in all ])arts of the world. TheCreek church 
of Russia now employs five such itinerant churches 
on the great new railroad in Siberia ; and similar 
work is carried on at Tiflis in the Caucasus, at old 
Carthage in the north of .\frica, in the diocese of 
Crahamstown in south .\frica, and in other places, 
bive such churches are now in use by the Baptist 
( hurch in this country, and two others b\ the l''.|)is- 
c opal church. 

.\t the beginning of his ministry Bisho]j \\'alker 
was a.ssociated with Bishop Coxe at Calvary Chuic h. 
New York ; and the friendship then begun strength- 
ened with years, and lasted until the death of the 
elder man. During the later years of his life 
Bishop ( 'oxe freipiently made use of his friend's help, 
sending him on epi.scopal duty to many parishes in 
the diocese of Western New York. .Xt'ter the death 
of ISishop Coxe a strong sentiment develojied in 
favor of Bishop Walker for his successor. Many in 
the diocese knew him jjersonally, and it was l)elieyed 
that the choice would lie in accord with the wishes 
of their late beloved bishop. The sjiecial council 
met in Trinity Church, Buffalo, October (i, iJSlKi, 
and the next cla\- Bisliop Walker was elected third 
bishop of the diocese. He entered upon his new 
duties December 2d, ISHd, after an impressi\e ser- 
vice of enthronization in St. Paul's Cathedral. While 
liishop Walker's work in liis eastern diocese is but 
just begun, it is safe to jjrophesy that he uill not 
be less successful there than in the West. He has 
received a hearty weic ome from the general public, 
as well as from the priests and peo|)le of hi^ church, 
and all are reach to bid him (;ods|)ced in hi^ new 
field of labor. 

In addition to many pastoral letters, convocation 
addresses, and sermons. Bishop Walker has published 
several writings that possess peculiar interest from 
the im]jortance either of the subjects treated or of 
the occasion of their delivery, .\mong these ma\ 
be mentioned his report to the President and con- 
gress on the Sioux and Chip])ewa tribes of Indians 
in North Dakota (l<S8(i); a sermon on the " Rela 
tions of Wealth to Labor," |)reac hed in Westminster 
.\bbey in liS,S8, and one on "Cod's Providence in 
Life," delivered at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, on 
the death of the Kmperor of (lermany ; an es.say on 
" Domestic Missions," read at St. James Hall, Lon- 
don, at the annual meeting of the venerable Society 
for the Propagation of the Cosjiel in I'oreign Parts 
(18H8); and an address on " .Missions in the Cnited 



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II I 



States," delivered in the s;imc place in l.s'.M. 
I'he bishop has received honorarv defjrees Iron* 
many colleges anil universities lioth at home and 
abroad. In 1S«4 Racine llniversily made him a 
Doctor of Divinity, and ten years later Osfonl liii- 
versity, Knj,'land. conferred a similar lidnur upon 
him. In 1SJ<4, also, he received from 
his a/mit mater the ilegree of S. T. D. 
Criswokl College gave him the I.I.. 1>. 
degree in ISSH, and Trinity I'oUege, 
DuMin, in |H!I4. Me is alM> a Doctor 
of Canon l«i\vs of the University of 
King's College, Windsor, Nova Scotia. 
PF.RSOXAL CIIROXOI.OGY— 
Williain Din'iit Wiilki-r u<iii hoin <;/ Xm' 
) 'tiik city June J!t, IS-l.'f : i^railuatdi Jroiii 
Ci'liimhia Collet^e in IS.V), ami from the 
Lieneral Theolot^ical Seminai'x in ISlii ; 
was vicar of Calvary Chapel^ Xeiv York 
lity, ]Sl!J-,S.! : loas l>iihof< of the mission- 
ary ilistriet of Xortli Dakota, ISS!-iH! : 
was eleeteil lnslio/> of the ilioeese of West- 
ern ,\W.' York October 7, ISOU. 



(BCOrOC Jf. JBrOWnCll lias had a 
remarkalily iiu cc.^>fiil i arccr and has at- 
tained, at the age of thirty-six, a position 
of trii>t and responsihility that would 
test the powers of a much older man. 

Thongh he was horn in Dos .Moines, In . 
his jKirents were originally from eastern 
.New York ; and after the war they nu)ve<l 
liaik to the Knipire State, and seltleil 
in Medina. There .Mr. lirowriell re 
ccived his early education, graduatiuL; 
from the Medina High School, an<l after 
ward atteniling the l.otkport Cnion 
School. Coing West again after this, 
he entered the academic de|artmeiit of 
the University of Michigan, from which he wa> 
transferred later to the law de|)artment. Mis pro- 
fessional training was unusually thorough, since he 
received his degree as a Bachelor of I jws from the 
.Mhany I -aw School in IHH'J, and from the Cni- 
versity of Michigan l.aw School the next year. 

( )n his admission to the liar Mr. lirownell spent a 
few months in the office of Thomas M. Coolev, 
judge of the Michigan Sujireme I'ourt and dean 
of the University of Michigan I-iw School, and 
sul>se<|uently chairman of the interstate-commerce 
commi.ssion. He then moved to HulTalo, and 
entered the office of Sprague, Morey iV Sprague 
as .assistant to the late V.. Carleton Sprague. 

The uniiiue prestige of this firm throughout western 



.New N'ork offered the young man a lirilliant 
field of professional achievement. In IXKM he 
was admitted to jtartnership, the st\le becoming 
Sprague, .Morey, Sprague vS; lirownell ; subse 
ijuently this was changed to Sprague, Moot, 
Sprague .V Tirownell ; and sim «• |une I, l**!'?. 




w II 1 1 nr I' irin \rii h-i-K- 

the firm h.is been known as Moot, Sprague, 
Hrownell \ .Many. 

.Mr. lirowiielTs professional work has been con 
cerned c hielly with the railroad and other cor|K)ra- 
tion interests of the firm, which are many and 
im|>ortant : and since the death of K. I'arleton 
Sprague earlv in 1M!t."), he has had charge t»f these 
interests. This work has not taken him >o muc h 
into the courts, nor brought him so conspic uousl\ 
before the public eye .is some of his fellows : but 
the res|)onsibilities intrusted to him have been \er\ 
great, and ha\e been ably administered. The T!ric 
railro.ad, thetirand Trunk railway, and the T.ulValo 
Creek railroad have been among the ci)r|iorate c lieitls 
of the firm : and the- leg:tl interesN of the- foriiic-r 



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corporation in western New York and of the (I rand 
Trunk throughout the state have been committed to 
Mr. Brownell. One of the important labors of his 
firm in this connection has been the adjustment of 
the relations between the Erie road, the other roads 
entering Buffalo, and the city itself, in the matter of 




C.HORCI-: F. /ik'on.xiiLi. 

abolishing grade crossings; and Mr. Hrownell has 
handled this delicate and complicated question with 
rare skill. Of late years his service to the Krie rail- 
road has included growing duties as counsel in other 
parts of the state, and his successful discharge of 
the.se duties led to his apjjointment in May, l)Si(7, 
as general solicitor for the company. This appoint- 
ment may be regarded as a signal proof of Mr. Hrown- 
ell's professional standing, since he owes it, not to 
moneyed influence or backing, but purely to merit 
and ability. He will retain his membershi|) in the 
Buffalo firm with which he has been so prominently 
identified, but will make his home in .\ew York cit\-. 
Outside of his ])rofession Mr. Hrownell has been 
activel)- identified with many phases of social life. 



taking special interest in present-day jjroblems such 
as are represented by the work of the Liberal and 
Thursday clubs of Buffalo. He belongs, also, to the 
Buffalo, .Saturn, Country, and Ellicott clubs of Buf- 
fivlo, the Oenesee Valley Club of Rochester, and the 
Chi Psi college fraternity. He has been actively 
connected with the Masonic order ; and 
is a Past Master of Ancient Landmark 
Lodge, No. 441, F. & A. ISL, a member 
of Hugh de Payens Commandery, and of 
the Buffalo Consistory. He belongs to 
the Buffalo Society of Artists, the Buffalo 
Historical Society, and the Buffalo Li- 
brary A.ssociation, and is a member of 
the Episcopal church. His ])olitical 
sym]jathies are with the Republican 
party, and he was the first secretary of 
the Buffalo Republican League. 

PERSONAL CHR OXOL O G Y — 
George Francis Brenvnell was born at Des 
Moines, lo. , June ■'>, 18G1 : 'loas educated 
in New York state public sclwols, and in 
the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; 
graduated from t/ie Albany La7v School in 
1882, and from the University of Michigan 
La7C' School in 18S-> ; rcas a /^pointed gen- 
eral solicitor of the Erie railroad in May, 
18!t7 ; married Anne Kniseley Abbott of 
Buffalo June 7, 78.97 ; has been connected 
with tlie firm of Sprague, Morey ^^ Sprague 
of Buffalo and their successors since 1883. 



GCOrclC Clinton belongs to a lam- 

ily that has done much to further the 

liest interests of Buffalo and of New \ork 

state, anil his own share in that work 

has been considerable. l^ver since 

Charles Clinton, the first ancestor of the 

tamily on this side of the water, settled 

in I'lster county in IT^il, the Clintons have been 

lirominent in the Empire State, both in war and in 

peace. Born in Buffalo about fifty years ago, deorge 

Clinton received his early education in private 

schools, afterward attending the public schools, and 

graduating from the old Central High School in 

1865, shortly after its organization. 

Mr. Clinton's lather, (Jeorge \V. Clinton, was a 
jjrominent law\er, and the son determined to follow 
the same profession. He went to New York, there- 
fore, in IcSfifi, and entered the law department of 
Columbia College, from whiih he graduated two 
years later with the degree of LL. B. For about a 
year he practiced in New York city, and then de- 
cided to try his fortunes in the \Vest. He estalilished 



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himself, accordingly, at Hudson, Wis., where he re- 
mained for the next five years. Retiirninj,' to 
Buffalo in 1874, he associated himself with Martin 
Clark in 1882, becoming senior |>ariner in the firm 
of Clinton iS: Clark. This firm still exists, and 
maintains a high standing at the Krie-county liar. 

In public affairs Mr. Clinton has long been an 
active force. Elected to the state assembly on the 
Republican ticket in 1883, he served with di.stinction 
in the ensuing session, working for the best interests 
of his constituents and of the state at large in an in- 
dependent spirit that refused to be bound by jwrty 
dictation. He was made chairman of the canal 
committee in the a.sseinbly — a most fitting ajipoint- 
ment, since he shares the interest of his illustrious 
grandfather, De Witt Clinton, in the canals of the 
state, and believes them to be a most important 
factor in its commercial prosperity. His 
work in this connection has not been 
confineil to that i)crformed in the legis- 
lature, for he has taken a leailing jiart in 
the I'nion for the Improvement of the 
Canals, an organization that has had 
much to do with bringing about the 
extensive improvements in the l-'.rie canal 
now in progress. Mr. Clinton .served as 
the serond president of this association. 

.Manv other movements affecting the 
welfare of Buffalo have receiveil Mr. 
Clinton's supjiort : indeed it may be sai»l 
that he has taken a more or less active 
interest in all publi<- ijuestions for man) 
years. He has served as one of the ]>;irk 
commissioners of the city, anil was also 
a member of the trunk-sewer commission 
during the building of the Cenesee 
street and Bird-avenue bran< hes. He 
worked faithfiilly to .set lire the adoption 
of the present city charter, which he 
had likewise hel]>ed to pre]xire. He has 
always been the friend of the ]iublii 
schools, and has taken jart in the move 
ment for raising their standard, anil re 
moving them as far as jiossible from 
jiolitiial influences. He was instrumental 
in establishing the BiitTalo l.aw School, 
and was its profe.ssor of admiralty law foi 
several years, until compelled to resign 
on account of the demands of his jjrivate 
practice. He has long been an active 
member of the BiifTalo .Merchants' K\change, and 
was its president in 18!i.J. Mr. Clinton is a mem- 
ber of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 
the Buffalo Club, and manv similar organizations. 



He belongs to the Masonic order, and to the Kpis- 
co|al church. 

P/:/iSOX.tL CHRONOLOGY— Gfoixe Clin- 
ton nuts horn at Buffalo Se(<lemhfr 7, 18^6 : graUiatfd 
from thf Buffalo Central //if:/i Si-himl in IStJ'i, ami 
from Columbia Collfi^f J.aw Si'liool in JSttS ; practi(fil 
law in Xnv York tity, ISlJS-ttH, an, I in lluihon. 
Wis., ISl!!>-H ; marrifil Alice Thornton of Buffalo 
January 17, 1S72 : was a mernhfr of the New York 
stale les^islature in ISH!, : has f<rattifeil law in Buffalo 

since /.S'7 { . 

• •• 

ElUlS S. t>il\VlCV> was l)orn on the lanks 
of the Hudson ri\er in Saratoga county. New V'ork, 
on a farm piinha.sed in 17!M by his grandfather, 
.\mos llawley. .\fter attending school up to the 
age of ele\en in Mureaii, Cilens Kails, and l-'uri 




cHOKCH rttxrox 

llilward. he went West with his family to Black 
Hoik, neir Buffalo, where his uncles, Nathaniel 
Sill and Joseph Sill, lived. This was in the sum- 
mer of 182.'?. and the journey, nwde by wagon. 



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consumed exactly one week. They left what is 
now Main street, Buffalo, near Granger's Mills, and 
after crossing Scaja(|uada creek, took the road 
through the woods that is now called Lafayette 
avenue. This was the only road then open between 
Main street and the Niagara river, except tiie 
thoroughfare now called North street. 




/■:/./. IS s. II \\\i i:y 

.\lr. llawley's early recollections of Black Rock 
and lUiffalo are most interesting. A short time 
after he reached the village, the third and fourth 
steamboats on Lake l'>ie, named the " I'ioneer " 
and the "Henry Clay" res])ectivelv, were liuilt in 
the shipyard at Black Rock. The i)rin( ipal \i\\>\- 
ness of the village w-as done 1)\' what was (ailed 
the Harbor Company, consisting of Captain Sheldon 
Ihompson and associates. Some of the principal 
families of the place were those of James L. Barton, 
Colonel Bird, Captain Bidwell, and Ceneral Peter 
B. I'orter, who built the house, then deemed a line 
residence, occujtied in recent years by Lewis I''. 
Allen. Near them lived .Mr. ISest, father of the late 



Robert Hamilton Best, who ke|)t a public house which 
is still standing on Niagara street, and which has 
been occupied of late vears bv the Rev. Mr. Robie. 
The old Inilian Conja(|uada, after whom Scajai|uada 
creek was named," li\ ed in those days at the mouth 
of the creek. Black Rock was then larger than 
I'.uffalo, ami was the jiort of entry, Mr. Hawle\'s 
uncle, Joseph Sill, being the custom- 
house officer. Mr. Hawley can recall 
only two dwellings between Black Rock 
and Niagara s(|uare, and only one cleared 
field on the west side of Niagara street 
south of the present Porter avenue. 
What is now Pros]jet t ])ark was dense 
woods. In the sjjring and fall Niagara 
street was impassable, and vehicles went 
on the beach trom I '.lack Rotk to Buf- 
falo. Mr. Hawley and his brother Seth, 
when driving cows to [lasturc, used at 
limes to see wild deer in what is now 
the heart of Buffalo. 

Having been olTeretl by hi.^ uiu le an 
option between an education and the 
gift of a thousand dollars at the age 
of twenty-one, Mr. Hawley accepted the 
former — "unfortunately," as he says. 
Attending Cambridge .'Vcademy in Wash- 
ington countv for two years, he was 
there prepared for Middlcburv College, 
where he staved until ihc end of his 
sophomore vear. He then taught a 
year at .Mount Pleasant, Westchester 
coimty, and after that entered the senior 
class of Union College, Schenectady, 
from which he graduated in July, IH."!;;. 
Returning to Buffalo, he taught a prixate 
.school in the part of the town at that time 
called "Hydraulics." Public School 
No. 8 was com|)leted in l.S.'><S, and Mr. 
Hawley served as its principal for a year. 
He afterwards studied law in Barker & Hawley's law 
office, receiving a diploma in due course. About 
1S4() the firm of Hawley & Co., consisting of Seth 
C. and Klias S. Hawley, established a money and 
package exjiress between Buffalo and Detroit. In 
1S44 Mr. Hawley was ap])ointed b\ the ( oinmon 
council superintendent of schools, at a salar\ ol 
>?.'i(l(l a year. He was appointed again in 1x4(1 
and in 1X47. lie was connected with the volunteer 
fire department about this time, belonging first to 
engine No. X, and afterward to " Kagle "2," located 
near the present site of the Buffalo I.ibrar\. 

.About the middle of the century Mr. I law ley 
began his long serviie with Pratt iV Co. lie re- 



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mained with the house twenty-three years altogether, 
as collecting attorney at tirst, and then as sii|>erin- 
tendent ol the HutTalo Iron iV Nail Works. He 
left the concern only when it went out of the 
iron Imsiness. Sim e then he has ilevoted himself 
|>artly to the management of his own private Imsi 
ness, and partly to the care of the Austin estate. 
He was ap|)ointed attorney for this property 
many years ago, anil has guarded it \igilantly at 
all times. 

.\lr. llawle\ has alwa^^ liecn |irominent in the 
aflairs of Buffalo, and he has sometimes taken an 
aitive |jart in the political life of the iitv. In 
iXtiX he was electeil alderman from the old lllli 
waril, anil in IHK."! he served iismeniKcr of a.ssemlil\ 
from the .'Jd |-'.rie i ounly ilistrii t. In the same 
year he was appointetl secretary and 
treasurer of the ISulTalo lns;ine Asylum, 
now the liulTalo Hospital, and has 
ever since discharged the duties of 
the ortice. He «as largely instru 
mental in the formation of the l!uf- 
falo Historical So< iety, and has lieen 
connected therewith as mendieror oftii er 
from the beginning. He was on the 
hoard of trustees for a numher of years, 
.serving |art of the time as its presi- 
dent. He was connected with the l''ir>l 
I'reslivterian Church from aliout IXo^ 
until the formation of the North I'res 
livterian Church, of which he was one of 
the trustees. Mr. Hawley has been ver\ 
much interested in the genealogy of his 
family, and has at cumulated at great ex- 
pense and infinite trouble a large mass 
of information regarding the various 
bran( hes of the family in this country. 
He has published what is probably as 
toniplete a work of this kind as h.is 
ever been printed. 

rr.RSOXA L CHR 0X0 1. OGY — 
I'.lias Sill HiiwUy was horn al Moreaii. 
N. )'., October ^S, ISIJ: nunfil to Ihij 
falo in IH^-i : graduateil from Union Col 
Ui^f in ]S.{.i : taught scliool. ISStl-in . 
H'ds siif^rrintrntlfnt of ultooh in liiiffiilo 
in IS.1,1,, IS.'fH, anil iS',~ : marridi La- 
vinia Hur,l Sililen of Buffalo May -in, 
IS/f.'i : was in the fmf>loY of Pratt >>■ Co. 
for twenty-three years : was alilerman from the 1 1th 
wani, Buffalo, in INUfi, anil niemher of assemhiy in 
ISS.i : has been en^i^aj^ed of late years in the mana,\:e- 
inent of his mvn /<ro/>erty ami of trust estates in Buffalo, 
and ai secretary ami treasurer of the Buffalo l/osfital. 



E^^Var^ C. XXX. O'JSnCn, »f 4:!!l Delaware 
avenue, liulfalo, i> one of the best -known physicians of 
that cii) . Horn in the < ity of (Juebe< , Canada, fifty- 
four years ago, he obtained his early eduration from 
the teaching of the Christian lirothers, and al private 
M hooK. Thrown upon his own res<iur< es at an earh 
age, he aci|uiretl by his contai I with the worUl awax 
Irom home, a large fimd of practical e\perien< e that 
must have aided in developing the strength of 
( har:i( ter and self resouri efulness for which he has 
long been noteil. Hr. ( )'Hrien's resiiletu e in Ituffalo 
began almost forty years ago. Having decided, a 
ivw years after he .settled there, to become a 
physician, he took the full < ourse at the University 
of Huflalti, and graduated from the uiedii al de|>.irt- 
menl of that in>litution in lebrn.irv, lHi;7 He has 




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followed his calling in Hnffalo ever sin« e, and has 
attained high rank in the medical fraternitv of Krie 
munty. During his thirty years of active practice 
he has had numerous la.ses of ex< eptional dirtiiiilty. 
but probablv none more noteworthv than '«" 



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MKX OF XKir )(ih'K— WESTERN SECTJOA 



instances in which he successfully reduced dislocation 
of the neck. Both cases were those of adults, 
rei|uiring exact anatomical knowledge, nice calcula- 
tion, and rare self-possession. 

Dr. O'Brien's jirominence in Buffalo came about 
in part as a result of his notable record a.s health 
])hysician of the city for several years. He obtained 
this ofifice early in his professional career, by ap- 
pointment of the board of health, and was reap- 
pointed five times. His term began in the winter 
of 1872-7o, and histed until 1X77, when the Demo- 
cratic party gained ])osse.ssion of the city govern- 
ment, and appointed a Democrat to the office. Dr. 
O'Brien's administration will be long remembered 
on account of the great smallpox epidemic tTien 
raging. This scourge infested the entire world at 
that time, and many large cities were frightfully 
ravaged by the disease. Buffalo alone had about 
VMM) cases, though Buffalo was rid of the pestilence 
several months before any other large .\merican 
city. Dr. O'Brien was physician to the smallpox 
hospital maintained in Buffalo during the epidemic ; 
and in addition to his regular duties as health 
l)hysician, he was obliged twice a day to visit this 
hosjiital, located on the outskirts of the city. He 
often made his second visit as late as midnight. He 
naturally came into close relations with the ])hysicians 
of Buffalo at that time, and it is worth\ of note that 
they cordially commentled his administration of the 
health department during that ordeal. The press of 
the city, also, without regard to party, recognized 
his efficiency as health physician. Mention should 
l)e made of the interesting fact that Dr. O'Brien in- 
troduced the use of bovine vaccine virus in Buffalo. 
There were then only a iew vaccine farms in 
America, and the introduction of the virus nu-t uilli 
o|)position from a considerable part of the general 
public, and even from some ])hysicians who did not 
fully imderstand the subject, though these soon used 
it freely. 

Dr. O'Brien's record in the health office of Buffalo 
attracted favorable notice, not only in the city itself, 
but also in some degree throughout the state. This 
fact was evidenced in his nomination as a com- 
promise candidate to the position of health officer of 
the port of New York — a position then comparable 
in point of compensation to the presidency of the 
Lnited States, though the enormous fees of the office 
have since been commuted into a fixetl salary. 
C.ovemor Cleveland nominated for the position the 
distinguished physician, Austin Flint ; but the 
nomination had not been confirmed when Mr. 
C'levelanil left .Mbany to enter the White House. 
Oovernor Hill then nominated Dr. I'helps of New 



York, whose name was likewise rejected by the state 
senate. P'inally Governor Hill sent in the name of 
Dr. O'Brien, whose political jjrinciples were har- 
monious with those of the dominant party in the 
senate. Owing to a factional (piarrel among the 
Republicans of that body. Dr. O'Brien failed by a 
few votes of confirmation. The general and hearty 
endorsement of his nomination, however, was very 
gratifying to his friends. One of the Buffalo papers 
devoted a page to a report of interviews with leading 
physicians, other professional men, and prominent 
citizens generally, who commended Dr. O'Brien's 
nomination on the ground both of professional fitness 
and of ]jer.sonal character. A large and representative 
delegation of Buffalonians, including members of 
both the medical colleges, went to .\lbany to urge 
confirmation upon the senate committee to which the 
nomination was referred. The Buffalo Coinmmid/, 
in an editorial article, spoke as follows : 

" Ti) the senators upon wlmm the responsi!)iIily i>f l!ie con - 
linnation of I )r. K. ( '. W. ( )' lirieii rests, tlie Comiin'nial can say 
lliis nuicli : llial the nominee is a man of ineproachable haliils 
— temperate, induslrioHs, and a wortliy citizen of any com- 
munity. As a Repul>lican he has ever Iieen staunch, loyal, and 
unswerving. As a physician he has l)een thoroughly tested, 
and tliat in the very line of duty in which, as health olfu:er of 
New \"ork. he would l)e called upon to serve. Dr. ( )' lirien 
was heallh physician of Huffalo during one of the most trying 
and perilous visitations thai this city has ever experienced. Il 
was dining the smallpox e|)ideniic of IST-'J-T-t, the most alarm- 
ing epidemic that ever afflicted Buffalo. Hy applying to the 
emergency tlie most stringent precautions, the hest agencies that 
science and experience could suggest, hy insisting upon im- 
mediate, positive, and ample measures on the part of the 
municipality. Dr. < 1' lirien stamped out smallpox in liulTalo. lie 
met the disease with promiitness, intelligence, and C4)urage, and 
drove it beyond the lines of the city — a service lliat the people 
of lluffalo can never forget. I'ut into the responsible position 
lor which the governor has nominatecl him, he will bring to the 
office skill, experience, and a devotion to <luty that is sure t^» 
fmd results in a .system of ipiarantine service as intelligent, 
honest, and rigid as the great port of New York needs and de- 
mands. We hope that the l\epublii-an senators will conlirm 
this excellent nomination." 

Notwithstanding his a<tivity in professional life. 
Dr. O'Brien ha,s always taken great interest in ptib- 
lit; affairs, and has been glad to lend himself to any 
movement likely to promote the welfare of Buffalo. 
Many positions of trust connecte 1 with his profession 
have been held by him ; and all of them, as he is 
glad to remember, came to him without .solicitation. 
For nearly ten years he was surgeon of the 74th 
regiment, Buffalo. For several years he was chief 
medical examiner of the Catholic Mtitual Benefit 
.Association of the State of New York. He held the 
])Ost, for a long time, of physician to St. Vincent's 
Orjjhan .\;.yltim at Btiffalo. He has been for many 
years constilting physician to the l'ro\i<knce .Xsyltim 



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for the Insane. He is now surgeon to the IfufTulo 
fire de[)artinent, and consulting surgeon to the 
Riversiile Hosi)iiai, Buffalo. He is a meml)er of the 
.\merican .Medical .Association ; of the Mrie County 
.Mediial Society, of which he has been |)resident : 
and of the Buffalo .Academy of Medicine. He has 
been president of the .Mumni .Xs-sociation 
of the I'niversity of HtilTalo, and is one 
of the curators of that institution. He 
has hati wide experience in examinations 
of the insane, and for man) years has 
freijuently been ap|)ointeil by the courts 
of Bufi'alo as an expert on the i|uestion of 
insanity, and has been called to other 
cities in that capacity. 

PKRSOXAL CUR OXOL OG J — 
Eihi'iini Clun Its W'liilf O' Brifii was Imni 
at Quebec, Caiuiiftt, Fehrmti-y J,, ISlf-i : 
mai'ed to Buffalo in 1S5!> : :^railuateil 
from the meiiicnl ilepartment of the L'fit- 
rersity of Buffalo in 1S(17 : 7vas health 
f<h\siiiaii of Buffalo, ISlJ-ll ; marrieil 
Monterey Allis of Neio York city Oeto- 
her S, 187 f> ; has practiceil meilicine in 
Buffalo since ]S(J7. 

l?il\V0l-tl.1 /ID. Stiver was born in 
rcnuille, lompkuiN i uunty, New York, 
.somewhat more than forty years ago. 
His lioyhooil and vouth were jiassed in 
this little village, where he receive*! su( h 
training as the district schools afforded, 
as well as the wider and more com|>re- 
hensive education that comes from con- 
tact with other boys and with the world 
in general. .At the age of eighteen he 
moved to the western end of the state, 
and s|)ent the next four years in James- 
town. Here he obtained the benefit of 
a short attendance at the Jamestown .At ademy, but 
was obliged to devote himself largelv to the task 
of earning a livelihood. He was ambitions, how- 
ever, to become a lawyer, and set about attaining 
that end, a(<|uiring by private reading and study the 
general < ullure that his incomplete scholastic pre|>a- 
ration had failed to fiirnish. 

Mr. Silver judged wisely that the larger the place 
the greater the opportunity for advancement, profes- 
sional anil other. Proceeding to Buffalo, ac<ord- 
ingly, in 1X7."), he spent several months in business, 
and then enleretl the law office of William C Fit( h 
as a student. In due time he a< quired the necessary 
legal knowledge, and in January, 1«H(I, was admit- 
ted to the bar at Svracuse. The followin}; month 



he opened an office in Buffalo, where he has pni< ■ 
ti< eti < ontinuously e\er since. He wa.s .onsiderabl\ 
oilier when he began his professional career than the 
average lawyer .so circumstanced ; and this fact 
undoubtedly gave him greater maturity of mind and 
a firmer gnisp of legal principles than the young 




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practitioner is likely to possess, llew.is fortunate, 
also, in establishing him.self in Buffalo when he did. 
The growth of the metro|>olis of western New York 
in the decade then beginning w.is remarkable ; and 
the many new industrial and commen iai enterprises, 
and consequent development of real-estate opera- 
tions, necessitated a vast amount of legal business of 
one kind or another. Mr. Silver profited, as might 
have been expected, from all these favoring circum 
stances. It may al.so be noted that he has devoted 
himself wholly to his profession, and the measure of 
success that he has attained may be regarded as the 
rewaril of hard anil con.scientious work in his chosen 
field. With the exception of about eighteen months, 
he has always practiced alone, ileeming it more 



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;nlvantageous, on the whole, to carry on his work 
without ])artner.ship assistance. 

Mr. Silver is an earnest Republican, and has made 
jwlitical speeches throughout Erie county in every 
important cam|)aign for several years past. Of late 
he has given considerable time to the study of his 




nil I lAM /■■ Sm.lS.MIIA' 

family genealogy — a subject that seldom fails to 
prove deeply interesting to one who turns his atten- 
tion in that direction. On his mother's side he has 
found little difficulty in tracing the family back to 
the original settler, who came to this country in 
1 ()!(() and established himself in New Jersey; and 
Mr. Silver maybe pardoned for feeling some natural 
pride in the fact that Vice President Hobart is also 
a descendant of this common ancestor. Mr. Silver 
is an Odd Kellow, belonging to Idlewood Lodge, 
No. (i.")2. He attends the Delaware .Avenue Metho- 
dist Episcopal C"hurch. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Dihoorlh M. 
Silver was horn at Pt'nn'ille, N. Y., March 10, 
1853 ; was filiicaliu/ in ti»ii»i(>n sr/icn/s ami acai/r- 



iiiit-s : stiidiiui /aio, an J was admitted to the bar in 
ISSO ; married Elizabeth Englehart of Batavia, N'. Y., 
in January, 18S8 : has practiced /aiv in Buffalo since 
February, 1880. 

Milliam jf. StraSiner is prominent among 
those members of the Erie-county bar 
who have combined success in the legal 
profession with active participation in 
the various investment enter))rises that 
have characterized the growth of Buffalo 
in the last decade. He is a native of 
Buffalo, where he has always lived. To 
the energy and perseverance that marked 
his early efforts to gain an education, his 
later success is partly attributable. When 
a boy at Public School No. 32, he won 
the Jesse Ketchum gold medal in a com- 
petitive examination open onlv to gradu- 
ates of the highest standing in all the 
grammar schools of the city. He subse- 
ipiently attended the high school, was 
graduated in IcSTG, and in the fall of the 
same year became a student in the Uni- 
versity of Rochester, from which he 
received the degree of .\. B. in \W\. 
While pursuing his studies at college, he 
tutored and in his senior year did some 
literary work for the Rochester papers. 
.Vlthough thus devoting considerable 
time to matters not pertaining to his 
course of study, he maintained a high 
standing ; and .some years later, when a 
chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa was 
formed at the university, the faculty 
elected him a memlier because of his 
scholarly attainments. 

On leaving college, Mr. Strasmer ac- 
cepted an appointment as princijjal of 
the academy at Whitney's Point, N. Y., and taught 
there for two years, reading law at the same time in 
the office of an attorney in that village. He re- 
turned to Buffalo in IXH.i, and entered the law 
office of Benjamin H. \\'illiams, then a member of 
the firm of Williams iV Potter. In IXH") he was 
admitted to the bar. He remained with Williams 
iV- Potter for some time after this, in order to famil- 
iarize himself with jjractice in the L'nited States 
courts, and particularly in admiralty law, of which 
that firm made a s|)ecialty. In June, 1HS7, he 
formed a jiartnershi]) with Wilber V.. Hou])t, which 
lasted until October, l««ft. Since then he has car- 
ried on his |)ractice alone, deeming such a course 
more desirable in many respects. 



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Mr. Strasmer began his professional life in Buffalo 
at a time when the rapid growth of the city favored 
the |)romotion of many enterjirises in the line of 
real-estate investment and imjjrovement. Litigation 

< onnected with shipping interests, which had 
esperially interested him in the early |>art of his 
legal career, had been almost wholly driven from 
Miiffalo hy altered conditions of lake traffic : ami he 
tirifted, more from pressure of business than from 

< hoice, into real-estate and corporation law. .\ 
number of organizations for investment in realty 
were formed under his advice and counsel. These 
corporations, notwithstanding the dejiression that 
began in IMil.'?, are among the most substantial of 
their kind in HulTalo, and demonstrate Mr. Strasmer's 
aliility and conservative judgment. He has served 
.IS an officer and director in some of these organiza- 
tions; and the duties thus a.s.sumed have 

been inconsistent with active court liti- 

gation, and have made him chielly an 
office lawyer and counselor. This has 
lieen true likewise of some other promi- 
nent members of the HutTalo bar having 
similar interests. 

Mr. Strasmer devotes much of his time 
to the study of public c|uestions. In 
national |>olitics he is an independent 
Republican. He supports movements 
that tend to furnish the l)est jniblic ser- 
\ice, and to secure the application ol 
common-sense and businesslike methods. 
He has been for some years a member of 
the Civil .Service Reform .\ssociation : 
and in .\pril, Ixiin, he was ap|>ointed 
by .Mayor Jewett a civil-servic e conunis- 
sioner of the city of Buffalo. The ap- 
pointment met with general approval. 
This is iheonlv public- office he h;is filled. 

.Mr. Stra.smer is a member of Krie 
Lodge, No. Itil, F. & .\. M.: and of 
.Niagara Lodge, No. 2"), I. O. (>. F., of 
which he is a |)ast grand officer, lie 
lielongs, also, to several other social 
organizations, including the .Acacia, Sat 
urn, and University clubs. 

PERSOXAL CHROXOL OG ) — 
U'llliiim ]•'. Strasmer Wiis horn at liuf- 
laic , alli-iiilfil thf f<iil'lii sdiools of lUiffalo 
aiiit Koilustfr L 'nirenity, lo/ieni-f lie ;^rail- 
iialtdiii 18S1 ; tauglit at ll'liitney' s I'oint 
(X. Y.) Acatiemy, ISSIS-I: jvas aJmittfJ to llif har 
in lSSr> : has f>raitiiei/ law in Hiiffalo anil fn;^a)^eJ in 
various business enter/irises since IfiS"! ; lias been a 
(ii-il-sen'iee eommissioner oj Buffalo sinee Af>ril. / v.'«; 



lUllliam Jf . ^Ucn^t, president of the Buffalo 
Forge Co., ^va.^ born in Buffalo less than forty years 
ago. He received his education in I'ublic School 
.No. 82 and in the old Central High School. His 
early business training was obtained as a lMX)kkeei>et- 
in the office of R. W. Bell & Co. of Buffalo. 

Before he wxs twenty years old Mr. U'endt began 
his connection with the Buffalo I'urge I'o. The 
business had been established only a few months, 
and had met with little success ; and .Mr. Wendt was 
alile to pure base a half interest in the c oiu ern for a 
small siun. His keen business fore-sight w;ls soon 
evident in the increasing prosperity of the enterjirisc. 
.\t first he took charge of the financial |(arl of the 
busine.ss, but he soon becamec onvinc ed of the neces- 
sity of a kiujwledge of the practical work of manu- 
facture. .\c c ordingly, while laying the foundation 




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of hi> present cMeiisnc business, he accpiainted him- 
self thoroughly with all the prcc i-s.'«es and detail of 
manufacture, and with the general management 
iif ihi- iiincc-ru: >c> th.il. Hhen he pun ha.sed the 



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interest of his partner, Charles Hanimehiiann, in 
1883, he was well fitted to assume the control of all 
departments of the business. 

In 18S() Mr. Wcndt admitted to partnership a 
younger brother, Henry W. Wendt ; and the two 
have worked together ever since. The growth of 





small beginnings from which the business has grown. 
Selling agencies for the i)roducts of the house are 
maintained in the principal cities of the I'nited 
States, and in London, Paris, and St. Petersburg. 
The building up of such a business in less than twenty 
years is sufficient proof of the ability, enterprise, and 
energy of the man who has guided the 

fortimes of the house during all that time. 

.\lthough one of the most modest and 
unassuming of men, and chiefly occu])ied 
with the management of his business 
affairs, Mr. Wendt takes deep interest in 
])olitical matters and in the (piestions of 
the day. He has long been active in 
local public affairs, and is an old member 
of the Buffalo Republican League. He 
was one of the ten men who l)uilt the 
first electric railroad to Tonawanda in 
1888 ; and he is a director of the Citi- 
zens' Bank, and a member of the real- 
estate commission of the Cerman Young 
Men's Association. He belongs to the 
Lutheran church. 

PERSONAL CHR ONOL OGY — 
William Franz Wendt was horn at Buf- 
j lalo July 2, 18-')8 : was educated in the 

public schools ; married Mary Gies of 
Buffalo Noi'ember S, 1S82 ; bought an 
interest in the Buffalo Forge Co. in 1878, 
and has been at the head of the business 
since 1883. 



(RETIRX W HVWn 

the l)usiness has lieen continuous and rapid, and to- 
day few concerns are more widely known in its 
special line than the Buffalo Forge Co. At first but 
two sizes of forges were made ; but new sizes, styles, 
and im])rovements have been constantly addeil to the 
product of the works, and their business in ]jortable 
forges is now estimated to be the largest in the L'nited 
States. The manufacture of heating and \entilating 
apparatus was begun in 1)SH4, and to-day the firm 
has few rivals in that line. In 1808 they took up 
the manufacture of high-speed automatic engines, 
which now constitute a large part of the output of 
the factory. The extensive works of the firm are 
located on Broadway, and among them stands the 
original frame factory, an elotpient reminder of the 



CrCtiCU Mevan^, as he was really 
named in his fatherland, or Christian 
W'eyand, as he is commonly known in 
this country, was born in Lorraine, 
France, about seventy years ago. He 
attended the common schools of his 
native province, but was not able to 
tarry his education very far. In his twenty-first 
year he left Lorraine for the wider opportunities of 
the new world, landing in New York in the s])ring 
of 1«47. Without delaying long in the metrop- 
olis, he betook himself to Buffalo, and there ob- 
tained emjjloyment as a cobbler. He worked at 
this trade for several years as an employee, much of 
the time with Forljush & Brown, and ultimately 
established a shop of his own. 

.Ml this happened so long ago that most people 
do not recall the facts at all, and always think of 
Mr. Weyand as a pros])erous and wealthy brewer. 
He has been that for many years ; but such a 
])osition in life is not attained at a single bound, 
and in .Mr. U exaiul's case the evolution from a 



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hard-working shoemaker toa retired l)re\ver was a loiifj 
|)rocess. He first enj^aged in the lirewing business in 
18(>(>. He had a |)artiier until lH7-'>, Imt their com- 
bined eapital was little enough, and their jjlant was 
necessarily small and ill equipijed. The purest and 
best of barley malt was used from the beginning, 
anil improved mat hinery w.xs introduced as fast as 
the necessary capital could be s;»\ed or secured. 
Few people realize the comjilexity and nicety of 
modern brewing methods, or the scientific care ami 
skill rei|uisile at every stage of the operation. I'rom 
the moment when the barley is plai ed in the malt vat 
until the malureil litpiid is taken from the ice cellar 
nine months later, ceaseless supervision must prevail. 

Taking the business alone in 1«7-"!, Mr. Weyand 
devoted himself with renewetl energy to the task 
of building up a magnificent ]>lant. His efforts 
were completely suctessful, and in a 
few years his establishment was one 
of the first in its line in liulTalo. .\s 
advaming age maile it desirable to give 
u|) active commercial life, he converted 
his business into a corporation in IMMI, 
keeping the office of president for him 
self, and making his son, John A. W'ey 
antl, vice president and manager, and 
his son, Charles M. W'eyand, secretary 
and treasurer. Both John W'eyand and 
his brother Charles had grown u|) in the 
business and knew it thoroughly, so that 
the affairs of the new corporation were 
safe in their charge. Since this change 
Wits made the business of the Weyand 
brewerv has in« reased markedly, and in 
lM9('i-!(7 it became neces,sary to make 
extensive additions to the |>lant. The 
establishment is now one of the best- 
ei|ui|)ped iireweries in the country, anil 
its pro<.lu( t finds increasing faxor in a 
wide market. 

PF.KSOXAI. CHROXOL OG Y — 
Cn-tifii Wnaiiii was horn in I.oriaiiii\ 
Fnitiie, Mm- //, hSJii : came to llie 
L'nitfii Statti in 1S.',7, und setlleJ in 
Buffalo ; worked at the ilwemakfr ' .< trade, 
1S^7-IU> : married Afa^^da/ena A f aver of 
Ihiffalo May !>, ISiiJ ; /las carried on a 
l>reit<er\ in Buffalo since 1866. 



Myron V.. and C"ordclia K. Hartlett, anil belongs to a 
family that has been honored for generations in both 
Kngland and .Vmerit a. He is a lineal descendant of 
a brother of Jasiah ISartlett, an early governor of New 
Hampshire, who ccmferred lasting distim lion on the 
name by signing the Declaration of Indepenilencc- 
next alter John Hancock. .Mr. Itirllett's grand- 
father moved to Wyoniing county from Vermont in 
l'<24. and his father was born there seven years 
later. 

.Mr. Ilarllelt was born in \Vars:iw about forty years 
.ago, and was educated at the acailemy in his native 
town, at (leneseo Academy, and at Cornell Cni 
versity. Before entering Cornell he was employed 
for a time as a printer in the otVn e uf the Western 
.\>7/' Worker, under William H. .Merrill, now 
managing editor of the N'eiv N'ork ll'or/d. Mr 




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ElUKMlC /ID. .lL>artlCtt has long 

l)een prominent in the alTairs of Wyoming county, Uartlett has always hail a fondness mr ji)uriinii-.m. 

anil like distinction may safely be predicted for him and has freipiently contributed arlii le.i to news|>:i|>ers 

in Krie county, to which he has recently transferred and magazines ; but the legal profession in the end 



a lart of his professional practice. He is a son of proveil most attracliM >.. l<i"i lb- ii>.>k 



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study of law, therefore, in the office of Bartlett & 
Bartlett at Warsaw. 

In lanuarv, 1S8(I, he was admitted to the bar, and 
at once a.ssumed all the responsibility that his pre- 
ceptors and the clients of the office would intrust to 
him. His father had long been one of the inost 
conspicuous members of the Wyoming-county bar, 
and the voung lawyer soon formed a partnership with 
him, under the style of M. E. & E. M. Bartlett. 
From the beginning Mr. Bartlett took special interest 
in the court work of the firm ; and probably few men 
of his age in western New York have argued a 
greater number of cases, embracing a more wide and 
varied range of subjects, than he. The discovery of 
salt in Wyoming county opened new fields for the 
exercise of legal ability ; and Mr. Bartlett has been 
active in the organization of corporations to utilize 
this discovery, and in the protection of their in- 
terests. During the fifteen years that he has prac- 
ticed in Wyoming county his firm has enjoyed an 
extensive and lucrative ]jractice, taking part on one 
side or the other in nearly every important case in 
the covmty, and becoming widely known in pro- 
fessional circles. January 1, 1896, Hayden H. Tozier 
was admitted to partnership, and the firm of Bartlett, 
Bartlett & Tozier has succeeded to the prosi^erity of 
the former association. 

The county seat of Wyoming county is a delight- 
fid town to live in, with a social life and a degree of 
general culture not always attained in places of much 
larger growth ; but the professional opijortunities of 
so small a community are necessarily limited, and 
Mr. Bartlett decided in the spring of 189H to extend 
his field of ])ractice. He formed a partnershi]), 
accordingly, with (JreenleafS. Van dorder of Pike, 
Wyoming county, and Carleton H. White and Elijah 
W. Holt of Buffalo, for the general practice of law in 
the (Jueen (."ity of the Lakes. The firm of Bartlett, 
Van (lorder. White & Holt was organized June 1, 
181)(), and has commodious offices in the Mooney- 
Bri.sbane building, Buffalo. 

.Mthough Mr. Bartlett's ambition for distin( tion 
in his chosen calling has left him little time or in- 
clination for the life of a professional ])olitician, he 
has always been an uncompromising Republican ; 
and in 188(1 his party elected him district attorney 
of Wyoming count). He ])rotected zealously the 
legal interests of the district throughout his term, 
but declined to become a candidate for a second 
term, as his ))rivate ]jractice reipiired his whole time. 
In 1X1)"2 Wyoming county instructed its delegates 
to the judii iary convention to vote for Mr. Bartlett 
as the nominee for the office of justice of the 
S\ipreme Court. 



In social affairs .Mr. Bartlett has taken a position 
consistent with his prominence in law and in other 
relations of life. He believes in fraternal societies, 
and belongs to Crystal Salt Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; 
Warsaw Lodge, F. & A. M.; Wyoming Chapter, 
R. A. M.; and Batavia Commandery, K. T. He is 
a member, also, of the Cataract Hose Company, 
Warsaw, of the Cienesee \'alley Club, Rochester, and 
of the Buffalo Club. He holds directorates in the 
Warsaw (las and Electric Co., and in the Warsaw 
Water Works Co. He is also a member of the New 
York State Bar Association. In 1889 he built the 
finest business block in Warsaw. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY — Euseiie M. 
Bartlett was born at Warsatv, N. ¥., ATarch 19, 
1855 ; attended Warsaw and Geneseo academies 
and Cornell University ; was admitted to the bar in 
January, 1880; was district attorney of IFvoniinx 
county, 1887—89 ; married Grace M. Sheldon of 
Hornells7'ille, N. Y. , January 23, 1895 : has prac- 
ticed law in ]Varsa70 since 1880, and in Buffalo since 
June 1, 189G. 



©SSiaU !BSc5ell, whose name instantly suggests 
Crand Island to a multitude of minds, was born in 
Franklin count}', Vermont, in 1832. He did not 
stay long in the (ireen Mountain State, as his parents 
moved to Tonawanda, N. Y. , when he was six years 
old. There the lad attended the common schools 
of the town, and at the age of eleven commenced 
driving a team for his father on the Erie canal. 
He followed the canal most of the time for the next 
twenty years ; though he obtained some further edu- 
cation meantime at the Cenesee Wesleyan Seminary. 

Mr. Bedell lived in Tonawanda until l.S4(), when 
he moved to (Irand Island. This has been his home 
during the half century since then ; and few men are 
more thoroughly identified w'ith any locality than is 
Mr. Bedell with the interesting island above the 
Niagara rapids. By the time he was twenty-one 
years old he had a farm of his own on the island, to 
which he resorted between the canal seasons, and 
which he made the nucleus of large land holdings. 
The progress of the little colony on (Irand Island was 
slow until 1874, when Mr. Bedell and others organ- 
ized a stock company to ecjuip and operate a ferry 
from the head of the island to Buffalo. This service 
has been maintained ever since, and has been of 
great assistance in develo])ing the island. Many 
people think of Crand Island as a summer and excur- 
sion resort merely ; but this concejJtion is altogether 
inconi])lete. There are now about 1 30(1 people there, 
three churches, eleven schools, and other institu- 
tions ap|iro|iriate lo an independent icimmunitv. 



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In l.H7(i Mr. Mcdcll tmilt the hotel that has since 
l>een known as the Mcdcll House. This stnu tiire 
is three stories high, with a I'lve-story lower, anil 
hroad verandas on all sides. Numerous attractions 
make the resort one of the most |jo|Milar in western 
New ^ork. 

Mr. Hedell has heen active in polit- 
ical affairs for many years. During Lin- 
coln's administration he was appointed 
ins|>ector of customs for the ilistrict of 
Buffalo Creek. In l.S(i2-ti:! he was the 
supervisor of Krie county from (Irand 
Island. He was appointed on March 14, 
ISMl, a.ssistant superintendent of |)ul)li( 
works for the western division of the 
Krie canal, holding office until .April 1, 
1><X4. During President Harrison's term 
in the White House .Mr. Bedell was 
appointed I'nited States consul at l-'ort 
Krie, (int., taking office July 24, IHIMI, 
and holding the place until the change 
of administration in the s])ring of IMH.'l. 
In July, l'**!'!, he was again ap|>ointed 
to the office l>y President MiKinlcy. 
.Mr. Hedell has long lieen regarded liy 
the leaders of his party in Krie county 
as a stanch sup))orter of the Re]nil)lican 
cause. He has often heen an at live 
factor in political conventions, and has 
otherwise exerted a strong inlluenc e in 
hehalf of the RcpuMican |uirty in the 
western end of the state. 

I'ERSOXAI. CHROXOI. OUY — 
Ossiiiii HeJfll was horn al Gfon^ia, I'/., 
/iiiif (i, IS-iJ ; U'ds fi/i/i'ti/fi/ in common 
schools iin:f Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, 
Lima, X. Y.: married Permelia Zimmer- 
man of Tonawanda, X. )'. , March ^S, 
lSo4 ; worked on the Krie canal, ISJ,S~ 
OS ; 7i'as inspector of customs at Grand Island, iV. ) '. , 
under President Lincoln, and county supen-isor from 
the town of Grand Island, ]S(iJ-*l-l ; 7oas assistant 
superintendent of puhlic 7oorks for the western ilir'ision 
of the lirie canal, IS.SlSi : was C 'nited States consul 
to h'ort Erie, Ont. , ]SflO-f>-l, and was reappointed in 
fuh, isr)7. 

CbarlCd H. .IBrUUn has l>een prominent in 
railroad < in les in liuffalo .ind its vicinity so long that 
it will l>e a surprise to many readers to learn that he 
is not yet forty years old. The explanation lies in 
the fact that he hegan his Imsiness i arecr .is a tele- 
graph o|ierator when only twelve years old, and has 
ri.sen steaililv ever since. 



Toward the close of the first half of the century 
.Mr. Hrunn's jiarents came to this country from tier- 
many, and .settled in HufTalo. There fharles wxs 
l>orn in IH'jX, and there he has s|H."nt his life, l>ar- 
ring an interval of three years. He attended the 
pidilic St hools, and evinced there the siinic al)ilit\ 




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that has brought him sut cess in later years, since at 
the age of twelve he had prepared himself to enter 
the high school. Circumstances prevented further 
St hool attenilance ; l)ut the at tive liusiness life in 
whiih he has since heen engageil has siipplieil 
abundant o|i|>ortunities for acijuiring the most 
practical kiml of knowleilge, anil he h.ns mailc good 
use of these. 

.\s statetl above, Mr. lirunn's first employment 
was that of a telegraph o|)erator for the Western 
I'nion company at liiilTalo. .After spending two 
vears with them he became o|>erattjr for the HufTalo 
iV |amc"slown railroail, serving in this >a|>.-ttit\ and 
.IS train dis|>iJtt her until \x'~ . In ihil year he wa> 
m.nle a.vsistant superinlenileni "'' '''■■ '"I'l Lmmn l.\ 



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that time as the Buffalo iS: Southwestern, and hekl 
the position until the line was leased to the New 
\'ork, Lake F.rie & Western road in 1880 under the 
designation of the Bufifalo & Southwestern division, 
i'his ])osition he has held ever since, though his 
duties have been largelv extended from time to time 




( H.iRi.ES .;. />'A'r.\'.\' 

in various directions. Jul\ 1. IXMi, he was sent to 
Meadville, Penn., as superintendent of the eastern 
division of the New York, i'ennsylvania & Ohio 
railroad, of which the New York, Lake Erie cK: 
Western was the lessee. He operated this division, 
extending from Salamanca, N. Y., to Kent, Ohio, 
and from Meadville to Oil ('it\- in Penn.sylvania, 
for three years, when his lu'ad(|uarters were again 
moved to Buffalo. 

Since his return to Buffalo in l8.s!i Mr. Brunn has 
occujjied a position of great ini|)ortan( e in the manage- 
ment of the Krie road. In addition to the superin- 
tendency of the Buffalo & Southwestern division, 
running to Jamestown, he is superintendent of the 
Buffalo division, extending to H()rnclls\ ilk- on the 



main line, and including the Lockport, Niagara Falls, 
and International Bridge branches. Notwithstanding 
his comparative youth, Mr. Brunn is the ranking 
superintendent as to years of service on the Erie sys- 
tem between New York and Chicago. Some idea of 
his varied duties may be gained from the statement 
that he has charge of the locomotive 
and repair shops of the Erie in Buffalo, 
its elevators and lake warehouses, and 
the enormous coal trestles and coal-ship- 
ping plant at East Buffalo. These last 
two works have been erected at an ex- 
pense of more than a (juarter of a mil- 
lion dollars since the reorganization of 
the Erie, and their construction and 
management have added greatly to Mr. 
Brunn's alread\' heavy cares. 

Mr. Brunn has been interested in 
Masonry ever since he reached his major- 
ity. He belongs to DeMolay Lodge, 
No. 498, F. & A. M. ; Buffalo Chajjter, 
No. 71, R. A. M. ; Lake F^rie C'om- 
mandery. No. :^0, K. T. : and Ismailia 
Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. 
He is a member of the Acacia Club, and 
of St. James Episcojial Church. 

PERSONAL ClIROXOLOGY — 
Charles Auguslus Bruiiii 7cujs bom al 
Buffalo January 28, 1868 ; 7C'as edu- 
cated ill public schools : was telegraph 
operator for the ll'esterii Union companx 
at Buffalo, 1870-72, and for the Buffalo 
6"" Jamestotim railroad, 1872—77 ; was 
assistant superintendent of the Buffalo &-' 
Soutlnoestern railroad, 1877-80 : has been 
in the employ of the Erie railroad as divi- 
sion superintendent since 1880, loith head- 
quarters at Buffalo during most of that time. 



30bn %. (IrOStbWaite was born in Buffalo, 
and during the greater part of his business life he 
has been actively connected with tlic transportation 
trade on the (Ireat Lakes. lli> education was 
received in public and private .schools in his native 
city, and at the age of seventeen he left .school and 
began business life, doing to Bay City, Mich., he 
engaged with his father in the building and running 
of boats. He continued in this occupation for the 
next five years ; but in November, lM7(i, he lost his 
vessel in a gale on Lake Erie. After this disaster 
he temporarily abandoned his connection with lake 
c ommerce. 

Becoming interested in politics, he de\oted .some 
time to that fascinating pursuit ; and in the spring 



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of 187^ accepted a |)Osition under John 'I'vlcr as 
deputy collector in the customhouse, remaining in 
the government service for three years. During this 
time he took up the occu|)ation of news|)aper writing. 
He was corresi)ondent for the W'esiern .\.s.sociate<l 
Press, the Chicago //lUr-CKtui/i, and the New York 
Truth ; and he did the llrst marine re|)orting for the 
HufTalo Express after its reorganization in 1S7X. 
He acted as financial secretary of llie Huflalo I'ress 
Cluh in l^Tit (luring the presidency of the late 
Thomas K.eene. 

In IXHl, after a lap.se of five years, Mr. C'rosth- 
waite returned to his earlier calling, and estalilished 
a ves.sel-l>roker's office on the old Central wharf 
'I'his business he has conducted ever since, owning 
and operating several ves.sels on the lakes, and 
dealing in marine insurance as well. Of late years 
he has lirancheil out into other activities. 
He was one of the original suli.scriliers 
for the stock of the Niagara Falls Paper 
I'o., and still retains his interest in the 
<orj)oration, having fidl charge of their 
water transportation. In June, 1H!I.'!, 
with (leorge R. Howard, he organized 
the Niagara Radiator (.'o. of KufTalo. 
He is now a.s.sociated with I). ( >. Mills 
of New York city, and Lewis .A. Hall, 
jiresident of the l-!xi)ort l.umlier Co. of 
New \'ork, in the construction of a steel 
ship for lake navigation that will he 
one of the largest ever used on inland 
waters. 

Mr. Crosthwaite's business cares have 
of late years monopolized his attention 
almost to the exclusion of other interests. 
He has, however, reached the ."{'id de- 
gree in Ma.sonry, belonging to Buffalo 
Consistory, and to Queen City Lodge. 
No. 8oH, F. & .\. M. He is a member 
of the Country Club and the l^Uicoti 
Club. 

FERSOXAI. CHKOXOl. OGY — 
John L. Cros/hwaite was born at Buffalo 
in ISaJf : was educated in Buffalo schools . 
engaged in lake traffc, 1S7 1-IH : marrieJ 
Elizabeth Sherman Morgan of Buffalo 
April U, 18ii> : ivas deputy collector oj 
customs, 1878-81 ; has owned and oper- 
ated lake vessels since 1881- 



engaged elsewhere at times, he has regarded the 
Queen City of the I ^kcs as his home for more than 
a .score of years. 

Mr. Uougla.ss was born in a log hou.sc in the town 
of Musii, Chautauijua county. His parents were 
pioneers of western New \ork, having emigrated 
thither from Jewett City, Conn., early in the '.'{O's. 
His education was begun in the district schoolhouse 
about a mile and a half from the farm where he w;ls 
born. I.;iter he spent one term in the U'eslfield 
( N. Y. ) .Ve ademy, and then took a three years' 
course in the I'nion School and Collegiate Institute 
at Jamotown, N. Y. Hy this time he had centered 
his amliitioi» on the study of law, and to fit himself 
for that profession he attended for twd years the 
law department of Columbian College at Washing- 
ton, I). C. From this institution he graduated in 




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Silas 3. 'E»0lUlla55 >■■* one of the many law- 1S7l'. The next year he formed a law jartnership 

yers and real estate men who have found in Buffalo with William H. Cutler in Buffalo, where he has pra( 

a profiuible as well as a pleasant field for the exer- ticed much of the time since, though devoting some 

cise of their talents. While he ha.s been actively time to government work and to busines.s. 



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Ml. Douglass is known as an expert collector of 
census statistics, and his ability in this direction 
has received official recognition on several occa- 
sions. In fact, he has been connected, in one way 
or another, with the last three censuses of the 
national Lcovernnicnt — those of 1.^70. ]SS(). and 




.sy/,./.v / i>i)i-(;/.,iss 

l.siiu. It was while studying law at Columbian 
College, Washington, that Mr. Douglass received 
his first insight into the difficulties attending these 
great statistical undertakings. At that time he 
served, during 1871 and 1.S72, as a < lerk in the 
Washington census office. When the time ( ame 
for taking the tenth census, Mr. Douglass was ap- 
pointed l)y {'resident Hayes a supervisor of census, 
having in charge the 11th census district of the state 
of New York. This district int hulcil the counties 
of Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Niagara, and Mrie. On 
the completion of his duties in connection with this 
position he was offered a clerkship in the office of 
the superintendent of census at Wa.shington, where 
he remained two years. Before his return to Buffalo 



he spent a year as assistant examiner of patents in 
the patent office. During his connection with the 
census office Mr. Dougla.ss had displayed so much 
zeal, energy, and ability in the discharge of his 
duties, that President Harrison appointed him 
supervisor of census in 1X90, and he was again 
assigned to the 11th census distriit. 
He displayed such fitness for the work, 
and so much energy in pushing it to a 
speedy completion, that the census offi- 
cials at Washington commended him 
highly. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY — 
Silai Jiiiison Douglass was horn at Biisti, 
N. v., Decemlier 9, 1S47 ; 7C'as edu- 
cated in IVestJie/d {A'. Y.) Academy and 
Jamestown { N. Y. ) Union Sclnwl and 
Collegiate Institute; graduated from the 
hmi department of Columbian College, 
Washington, D. C, in J 872, and began 
practice in Buffalo in October, 1S7S ; 
married Leonora Godwin of Buffalo May 
8, 1870 ; U'as supervisor of census for the 
11th census district of N'cit' York state in 
1880 and in 18<KI. 

IRicbarC* 1l.tammou5 has done his 

't full share in building u|j the manufactur- 

\ ing industries of Buffalo, and in giving 

l. employment to many men. The present 

is often called the age of iron and steel, 
and the workers in this line perform the 
heavy labor that lies at the foundation of 
material prosperity. In the din and 
dust of shops that the daint}' seldom 
visit, are wrought out the mighty ma- 
chines and ])onderous engines that make 
modern life possible. Brawn and muscle 
and brain are all required in the pursuit 
of the.se laborious occupations. Just as there is no 
royal road to learning, so there is none to the 
trades. Personal contact with the work and long 
experience are necessary to master the details. 

Mr. Hammond's career illustrates anew the jjower 
of one man with a strong will bent on the establish- 
ment of a business of his own. He had no ad- 
vantages of birth or early training beyond what 
came from healthy, honest parents, and an element- 
ary education. Horn in a foreign land, he was 
twelve years old before he lame to this country, and 
had the opportunity given to every American citi- 
zen to achieve whatever his ambition and talents 
can secure. None realize better than those born 
abroad how different are the conditions and the 



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social customs of this country from those of the old 
world. Here the nice, while not neic-ssiirily to the 
strongest, is to the man who will run and keep at 
it. A successful start does not necessarily imply 
a successful finish, and all that our institutions 
furnish is a start, the rest de|jendinn on ihc man 
himself. 

The l>xsis of every trade or profession is an 
.ipprenticeship, anil the more thorough this is the 
better the workman. Thirty years ago one could 
not JMni|) into a trade at a liound ; and to-day as a 
result we have iietter journeymen, lietter master 
me(hanics, and l)etter emi)loycrs. Mr. Hammond 
served his ai)prenti< eship as a machinist and boiler 
maker in Troy, N. \., where he lived from the 
lime he came to AuK-riia until 1.H71. He then 
went to Whitehall, N. Y., and engaged in business 
for himself, al"terward moving t<i Krank- 
lin, I'enn., where he remaineil until 
IM.S-J. 

In the latter year the advantages of a 
larger field, and the gradual but sure 
(ie\cloi)ment of Buffalo into one of the 
great manufacturing i enters of the conn 
trv, led Mr. Hammond to move thither. 
With John (."oon as |>artner he started 
the I^ike I-^rie Boiler Works; and to this 
enterprise he added in IXIMI the l.ake 
ICrie Kngineering Works, the two con- 
cerns employing five hundred men and 
reipiiring eight large buildings for their 
o|perations. Together they constitute 
one of the big shops of the lity, and by 
providing work and wages for .so many 
they become real factors in the industrial 
life of Budiilo. The l-ike Krie Kngi 
neering Works is a joint-stock cor|)ora- 
lion, of whit h .\lr. Hammond is presi- 
dent. 

'The active management of two su( h 
plants has kept Mr. Hammond closely 
confined to the office and shop ; and, 
though an ar^lent Re|)ublican, he has 
uniformly declined to accept office, re- 
fusing at one time a nomination for 
councilman. But he hxs none the less 
been a force with his inlliience and 
means in the counsels of his jKirty ;ls.so- 
ciates. 

While living in Tro\ Mr. Hammond 
was a member of the •i4th regiment, N. d., 
S. N. v., and he has always regretle<l that he was 
not old enough to go to the front in the Civil War. 
He is a Tnember of the tatholic Mutual Benefit 



.\.ssociation and the Catholic Knights of America, 
anil is a |>arishioner of St. Joseph's C'atheilral. In 
his relations to society and the community he is 
noted for his cordiality, generosity, and strict integ- 
rity — a plain man, without o.stentalion, enjoying 
the respect and gooil will of his neighlKirs and 
townsmen, and of all with whom he is connecte<l in 
business relations. 

PERSOXAI. CIIROXOL OG Y—RUhanl 
Hitnimon,! Wits boni in Jrrltinil Jiininiiy il , ISi» ; 
t<i/fii- to lilt I 'nit fit States in />oy/u>i>i/, iini/ Iftirnfd Ihf 
machinist' s trajf at Troy, N. )'. .• marrifj Johanna 
Mahar of Troy Afri/ ir>, 1S7<I ; rni,'tl.t:''t/ in Imsinfss 
in XfW York anJ I'mnsyhania, 1S7 IS,' : has con- 
,/nctcJ the Lake Erie Hoi/er ll'ork^ at liuffalo since 
ISSJ, iirit/ the Lake /■'.rie lOiiiinieiin: Works since 
IS!Ml. 




mrilAKIt IIAMMiiMt 



Bufl'alii and l-.ric iiiunt), was Uirn in Savony alioul 
forty-five years ago. He was brought to America 
during infancy by his parents, who had relatives in 



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Buffalo, and who went thither at once on reaching 
the country. I'here Mr. Hennig'.s father, also 
named Herman, lived until his death in 1871 i and 
his mother is still a resident of that city. After 
attending the public schools, Mr. Hennig received 
further instruction from ])rivate tutors. His special 




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training in the law was obtained in the office of 
Corlett & Tabor, famous attorneys of Buffalo, with 
whom he remained several years. 

Having secured in this way a comprehensive knowl- 
edge of law as regards both theoretical text-book 
discussion and actual ofifice experience, Mr. Hennig 
had no trouble in passing the bar examinations at 
Rochester in October, 1876. He began to practice 
at once in Buffalo, and has ever since followed his 
profession in that city and adjacent territory. He 
has never thought it desirable to specialize his work, 
preferring to utilize his broad training in the law by 
carrying on a general practice. This ])lan has been 
consistently followed, and he now conducts a large 
amount of legal business covering a wide range of 



subjects. He does his work without partnership 
assistance. 

Like so many other members of his profession, 

Mr. Hennig has devoted a good deal of attention to 

jHiblic affairs. .Always until the fall of 1896 he was 

a stanch Democrat, prominent in the counsels of the 

party, and active in the dissemination 

and advocacy of Democratic principles. 

In 1888 he was elected to the office of 
city attorney of Buffalo, or, as it is now 
called, cori)oration counsel ; and filled 
the position with conspicuous ability 
I during the years 1884-85. At the ex- 

piration of his term of office his adminis- 
tration was heartily commended, not 
j only by the press and politicians of his 

])arty, but also by the Republican papers 
and .some ijrominent Republican attor- 
neys. In 1894 he was nominated by 
the Democrats for the important posi- 
tion of distric t attorney of Erie county. 
In every campaign since 1872 Mr. Hen- 
nig has taken the stump. Most of his 
political speeches have naturally been 
, made in Buffalo and Erie county ; but 

_p<f he has also at times made camjiaign tours 

in other counties, and occasionally out- 
side the Empire State. Up to the year 
of the McKinley-Bryan camjjaign he 
spoke in behalf of Democratic candi- 
dates : at that time, however, he es- 
poused the cause of the Republicans on 
account of the money issue, and ren- 
dered ])Otent aid to the cause of sound 
finance. 

Mr. Hennig has a social nature, and 
belongs to various organizations designed 
to satisfy this healthy tendency of hu- 
mankind. For some time he was chair- 
man of the committee on laws of the Grand Lodge 
of the Ancient Order of L'nited Workmen ; and for 
three terms, beginning June 1, 18111, he was Cirand 
Conunaiider of the Select Knights. He belongs, 
also, ti) the Improved Order of Red Men, to 
the Knights of the Maccabees, and to the Odd 
Fellows. 

PJ-:Ji S O NA L CHRO N OLOG Y— Henmvi 
ffeiinij^ icas born in Saxony October 16, 1852 ; rcas 
educated in Buffalo at public schools and by prirate 
tutors ; studied laii', and was admitted to the bar in 
181(1 : was city attorney of Buffalo, 188Jf-8o : has 
been twice married, the second time to Sadie G. 
Bo7uman of Buffalo May 2S, 18HS : has practiced 
hnv in Buffalo since 187G. 



.I/AW ('/•" .VA/r )(M'A' — /«'A".s/A"A'.V S/-:C77i>.\ 



4-J'.t 



lUllUam 15. l30V?t, one ol the he-Nt-known 
and most succes.sl'iil practitioners at the Krie-county 
l»ar, has hardly yet emerged from the ranks of young 
men, as he is less than forty years old. He was l>orn 
at Kast .Aurora, Krie county, and has lived in that 
county all his life with the exception of the time 
spent in college. He obtained his early educa- 
tion in the academy at l'!ast .\nrora, and com- 
pleted his pre|>aratory studies at the I'luffdo High 
School. 

Choosing Cornell as his ii//ii<i matn, Mr. Iloyi 
began his studies at that institution in the fall of 
1J<77, graduating with the class of IHKl. In 
college .Mr. Hoyt followed a general course of in- 
struction, but gave especial attention to history and 
political science. He a|)plied to his college work 
the .same zeal anil earnestness that have characterized 
his entire career, and aci|uired during 
his four years at Ithaca an exteeilingly 
valuable founilation for his later profes- 
sional studies. While in college he in- 
terested, himself a good deal in the Cor- 
nell journalism of his dav. He was man- 
aging etlitor of the monthly magazine, 
one of the editors of the college weekly, 
and the founiler of the Cornell Daily Sun 
— a prosperous organ of cam|nis piiblii 
opinion that has continued to shine for 
all ever since. Mr. Hoyt has al\va\s 
been a loyal son of Cornell, and has 
taken great interest in the welfare of the 
institution. The fact rei eived proper 
and gratifying recognition in June, \W'i, 
when the alumni elected him one of the 
trustees of the university for a term of 
five years. 

.Mr. Hoyt was one of the fortunate 
mortals who have a decided bent for a 
|>articular calling, and are thus sjored 
the trouble of weighing the com|)arative 
advantages of various [lossible pursuits. 
He decided in his college ilays to make 
the law his life-work, and with that end 
in view he became a student with Hum 
phrey iV l.ockwood, and was admitteil 
to the bar from their office in M.irc h, 
18!t;{. The firm nieiitioned was one of the 
oldest and busiest in HufTalo, and atTorded 
a student all that couUl be desired in the 
way of practical experience in the dis- 
patch of legal busine.ss. Partly on that account, 
but more especially because of his previous mental 
discipline, clase application to his work, and rare 
ability in grasping tjuickly the e.s.sential |x}ints of a 



subject, Mr. Hoyt made rapid progress in his pro- 
fession. 

.\fter his admission to the Uir, .Mr. llo\t was 
asked to bet ome a member of the finn, which then 
a.ssumed the familiar style of Humphrey, I-ockwotul 
iV Hoyt. .-Vdilitions have been made to the finn, 
but the original as.sociates have continued to prac- 
ti( e together up to the present time, and have estab- 
lished a wide reputation for re>|>onsibility aiul suc- 
cess. Mr. Hoyt does a large share of the court 
work of the firm, besides trans.icting a due amount 
of the office business. 

In iHXii .Mr. Hoyt w.in appointed assistant Cniteil 
.States district attorney for the northern distrii t of 
New Vork, holding the |Hjsition until IXXII. In 
1M5(4 he was ap|iointed by .-Xttorney-CJeneral ( )lney 
counsel to the L'nited States interstate-commerce 




II II I JAM II Hityr 



commission for the states of New \'ork and Ohio, 
with the official title of assistant attorney-general. 
.Aside from the two places mentioned Mr. Hoyt has 
not held public office. He is an earnest advocate 



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of the princiijles of the Democratic party, and has 
for many years enjoyed the confidence of jiarty 
leaders in Buffalo and western New York. 

PEJiSONA L CHR ONOL OGV— II 'illiam 
Ballard Hoyt 7uas horn at East Aurora, N. ]'. , 
April 20, IS'tS : f<refiart'(l for collef^e at East Aurora 




JOIIX D. I.AKKIS 

Academy and the Buffalo High School, and graduated 
from Cornell University in 1881 : studied law, and 
was admitted to the bar in 188-I ; married Esther 
Lapham J/ill of Buffalo December 20, 1887 ; 7e'as 
assistant United States district attorney, 1886'-80, and 
7C'as appointed assistant attorney-general in 1804 ■ ^'''J' 
practiced law in Buffalo since 188-i. 



30bU ID. XarlUU, one of Buffalo's successful 
business men and respected citizens, was horn in that 
city little more than fifty years ago. His parents 
were I'jiglish j^eojile ; and his father, Levi H. I,ar- 
kin, wa.s the founder of the CHinton Iron Works, 
now carried on by Bingham & Taylor. One of Mr. 
Larkin's first recollections is of the burning of the old 



Ragle tavern November 14, 1849, when he was but 
tour years old. This hostelry stood on Main street, 
on the ground afterward occupied by the American 
hotel, where occurred the disastrous fire of 18(i5. At 
the time of the earlier fire the work of fighting the 
destroying element was intru.sted to the vohmteer fire 
department, of which Mr. Larkin's father 
was a member ; and the apparatus at their 
disposal was extremely limited. \\'hen 
it was discovered, therefore, that brands 
from the burning tavern had lodged in 
the belfry of the old court house on 
Washington street, the building seemed 
doomed to destruction, as no water 
(Oiild reach the spot. But Mr. Larkin's 
father succeeded in climbing the slip|)erv 
shingles and smothering the fire with 
his coat, thus saving the building, 
which wa.s then deemed a most im- 
portant one. 

After attending the public schools of 
Buffalo in childhood, Mr. Larkin began 
busine.ss life at the age of twelve by 
entering the employ of William H. 
Woodward, a dealer in wholesale and 
retail millinery. He remained with him 
four years; and then, in 1862, began 
work in the soap manufactory of Justus 
Weller. For the next eight years he 
worked for Mr. Weller in Buffalo, learn- 
ing thoroughly the business in which he 
has ever since engaged, and becoming 
increasingly valuable to his employer. 
\\ hen Mr. Weller moved to Chicago in 
ISTll Mr. Larkin went with him, and 
the next year was admitted to partner- 
.ship in the firm of L Weller & Co. 
This connection lasted imtil .April, 187'), 
when Mr. Larkin sold out his interest 
in the business to Mr. Weller, and returned to 
Buffalo. 

Mr. Larkin was now intimately ac(|uainted with 
the details of soap manufacture, and had no desire 
to lose the results of twelve years' ex|)erience by 
taking up a different occni])ation. Accordingly he 
established a small factory on his own account, and 
set to work to build u]) a substantial business. In 
1878 Klbert (L Hubbard was admitted to a share in 
the enterprise, and the firm of J. D. Larkin iV Co. 
was organized. This style continued until February, 
1892, when the business was incorporated as a stock 
company, called the Larkin Soap Manufacturing 
Co., with Mr. Larkin as president and treasurer. 
Mr. Ilubbartl withdrew from the concern in 1898. 



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Mr. I^rkin has givt'ii his licst energies to the under- 
taking during all these years, and has succeeded by 
|)ersistent and well directed effort inl)uilding ii|> one 
of the large and successful nianufa< lories of the 
(Juccn C'itx . 

Mr. I^irkin is a man of i|uict tastes, and ha.s never 
taken an active part in public affairs. While inter- 
ested in jiolitics, he h.is no desire to hold office, nor 
has he any of the i|ualities that make the practical 
jiolitic'ian. He iiclongs to no lodges or c lubs, but 
is a niemlicr of the I'rospect Avenue Ha])tist Church, 
Huffiilo. He is iwrticularly interested in young 
men, and is fond of helping them when they show a 
willingness to helj) themselves, preferring thus to 
make his charily jirivate and personal, rather than 
to work through institutions, whose aid is not always 
discriminating. 

/'ER S O X.-4 I. C II R O X O I. O iJ V — John 
Diiriiinl Ltirkiii 7i'iis horn at /iiiffah) September iU, 
lS4-'> : was educated in Biiffah public schools and 
Bryant 6^ St ration' s Business Colle:^e : loas employed 
in a wholesale millinery store in Buffalo, lSii7-t!I : 
7t>as <-//i,'(7;r// /// soap manufacture, as employee and 
partner, in Buffalo anil Chicago, lSlJ^-7o : married 
Frances II. Huhbard of Hudson, III, May 10, 1874 •' 
has been the head of the business noic kmrtvn as the 
Larkin Soap Manufacturini; Co., Buffalo, since its 
establishment in 1875. 



BillilCnC /ID. H£«blCg is known throughout 
.Niagara county, and indeed throughout western .New 
York, as one of the brainiest, shrewdest, boldest, 
and soundest lawyers within that territory. He is 
more than that. He is a business man of large 
experience and much foresight, accustomed to the 
successful handling of immense interests. I-iirther, 
he is direc tly and positively interested in all public 
cpiestions, a hearty |)artisan in |)olitics, and an active 
force in many social and other organizations in the 
city of I.ockport. 

.Mr. .Ashley had avariet) of experiences before he 
adopted the profession in which he has won such 
signal success. He isadenesee-county boy by birth, 
and attended the common schools of his neighbor- 
hood ; afterward taking a course at the Tenbroeck 
Academy at l-'ranklinville, N. ^'., and completing 
his education under jirivate tutors. Then he taught 
school for seven years in tlene.see county. Hut his 
nature was too restless and ambitious to be satisfied 
with the confines of the sc hoolroom. He was already 
taking an active ]>art in politics: and in 1«7"> he 
was appointed Inited States revenue agent, and on 
September 1 was a.ssigned to duty in l.oc k|>ori. He 
held this |K)silion for about a year Icir the ne\l 



three years he studied law, and had the advantage of 
pursuing his studies in the offices of such men as 
I,. V. & <;. \V. liowen and Judge David Millar. 

In January, 1N«(I, .Mr. .\shley was declared fully 
<|ualified to ac t as an attorney and coimselor at law. 
He immediately launc hed out alone, but in lSK'2 he 
formed a )>artnership with 1). K. iJrong. Ijter 
Frank M, .\shley bee ame a member of the firm. In 
iH.si; .\lr. Itrong retired, and the firm of K. -M. \ 
!•'. .M. .\shley continued until 1«!I4, when the firm 
of Roberts, Hecker, Ashley, .Mes.ser & Ore utt, with 
offices at Buffalo and l.ock|K>rl, came into existence. 

With all Mr. .Ashley's interest in |>olitics, he has 
not otlen held public office. He was the very able 
distric I attorney of Ni.-igara county for six years, 
being first elected to the office in IMSO and again in 
IHK.'J. He was also the unsuccessful Republican 
nominee for memlier of as.sembly m IKJt'i in a Demo- 
I ralic district. 'I'his has been alwut the extent of 
his |)olitical life, though he is a cam|iaign s|)cakcr of 
much elo<|uefue. He has preferred to devote his 
energies to the building up of a lucrative law prac • 
lice, and the develo|imeiil of the many commerc ial 
enterjirises in which he is engaged. No litigation 
of great im|K>rtance has occurred in Ni.igara county 
in the past ten years in which he has not appeared 
on one side or the other. This may .seem a broad 
statement, but it is fiilly warranted by the facts. 
.Mr. Ashley has been counsel for the l>oard of .super- 
visors of Niagara county, and for the l)oard of edu- 
cation of I.ock|)ort ; and he sue cexsfully carried 
through the erec lion of new sc hcH)l buildings after 
two years of strenuous o|>|iosition. 

.\ few instances of Mr. A.shley's connection with 
large business enterprises may be cited here as an 
indication of his natural shrewdness and willingness 
to do all that lies in his power for the material 
advancement of his city. With the late John Hodge 
of I.ockport, he organized and owned the I,oc k|>ort 
street railroad in IMXi; and 1NM7. This road was 
for a time operated under great difficulties and many 
embarrassments, but the energy and ability of its 
owners finally removed all these. In l«!t2 the 
motive [Kiwer was changed to electricity, and the 
road was started and operated as an elec trie- line in 
.August, IMt.'i, just twenty clays after the death of Mr. 
Hodge, whose interest in the enterprise had been 
most untiring. In comjiany with James .A. Roberts 
of Buffalo, I imothy K. Kllsworth of l.oc k|»ort, and 
William M. Iviiis of New Aork, .Mr. .\shley organ 
ized the Traders' I'aper Co. of Lockjiort, one of the 
largest mills in the state. The organization was 
completed in |M!».">, and the plant was put in o|»cra- 
ticm in 1S!M;. Mr .\shle\ was also the projector of 



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an electric railroad from l.ockport to Olcott on Lake 
Ontario. He wa.s a charter member of the I.ockport 
Electric and Water Supply Co., which has a franchise 
to build a ])0\ver (anal from Niagara river to Lake 
Ontario. 




cr.oRci-. II. HRicr.s 

Mr. Ashley is prominent in the club and social 
life of Lock]5ort, where his many charming i|ualities 
make him highly esteemed. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Eugene A/. 
Ashley tuas bofii at Bethany, Genesee comity, N. Y. , 
June 1, 1850 ; received his education in common schools 
and Tenbroeck Academx, and from private tutors : 
moved to Lockport, N. Y., Septenilicr 1, lfi7o, as 
United States revenue agent ; mis admitted to the bar 
in January, 1880 : married Eliza IV. Adriance of 
Lockport December 29, 1880 ; was elected district 
attorney of Niagara countv in 1880, and again in 
188H : has practiced la7v in Lockport since 1880. 



George Tl'Q. JBriOQS «as bom in the town of 
Collins, lOrie ( oiinty, .\cw York, less than fifty years 



ago. He attended the common schools of the 
neighborhood in boyhood, and afterward spent some 
time at a select school, acquiring a good general 
education, and fitting himself for the work of a 
teacher. He followed this profession, indeed, for 
twelve years, though he had no inten- 
tion of making it his life-work. 

In the spring of 1881 Mr. Briggs moved 
to Orchard Park, Erie county, where he 
has since resided. Two years later he 
began his present business as a dealer in 
farmers' supjilies of all kinds. At first 
he .sold goods on commission only, in a 
small way ; but he soon became firmly 
established on a more satisfactory basis, 
and for a number of years now he has 
done a thriving business in his part of 
the county. During the greater part of 
this time he ha.s conducted the under- 
taking alone ; but for several months in 
1898 he was in ]jartner.ship with C. X. 
.Smith, in the firm of Briggs & Smith. 

Mr. Briggs has long been interested 
in public affairs, and has served his fel- 
low-( itizens in one capacity or another 
for many years. He held the office of 
justice of the peace for two terms, or 
six years ; and has represented the town 
of Ea.st Hamburg on the Erie-county 
board of supervisors ever since 1889. 
He has taken a prominent and active 
|)art in the work of the board from the 
first. In 1.S9.'5 he was a memlier of the 
|)urchasing and auditing committee, and 
in 189(i-97 he was the chairman of the 
board. 

Mr. Briggs is a Ma.son, and belongs 
to several other fraternal societies, includ- 
ing the Knights of the Maccabees, Select Knights, 
and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He has 
uiembershi]) in the following Masonic bodies : Zion 
Lodge, No. 514, V. & A. M., Orchard I'ark ; Buffalo 
Chapter, No. 71, R. A. M.; Lake Erie Comniandery, 
No. 20, K. T. , Buffalo ; Ismailia Temple, Nobles of 
the Mystic Shrine, Buffalo : and the .'Vcacia Club, 
Buffalo. He attends the Presl)yterian c:hurch. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— George If. 
Briggs was born at Collins, A'. Y. , October 10, 1850 ; 
was educated in common and select schools ; married 
Orcelia A. Pike of West Concord, N. Y., December 
2!), 1875 : taught school, 1808-80 ; was justice of 
the peace, 188,i-89 ; has been a member of the Erie- 
county board of supervisors since 1889; has conducted 
a general store at Orchard Park, N. Y. , since 1883. 



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JElUK'llC CniV|, |>romiiient in the Icnal and 
liolitiial circles ul" Niagara Kails, was horn in Dun- 
kirk, X. v., somewhat less than forty years ago. 
After attending the public schools of his native place, 
he obtained higher instruction at t'ornell I'nivcrsitv, 
graduating thence in 1H7H with the degree of H. S. 
He then devoted a year to business in his father's 
hardware store at Dunkirk, and the winter of lH7!t- 
XO he jKissed as princifjal of a school at Sinclairville, 
Chautauijua county. 

Hy this time Mr. C'ary had de( ided to make the 
practice of law his life-work. Kntering the office 
of Judge Thomas 1'. (Jrosvenor, therefore, at Dun- 
kirk, he ap|>lied himself with characteristic /.eal to 
the tiisk of mastering legal science. He continued 
his reading until .\ugust, 1X81, when the |>osition of 
.superintendent of schools at Bedford, lo., was olTered 
to him. He accepted this ojjportunity, 
and managed the public schools of Hed- 
ford with marked efficiency for the next 
three years. He found a little time for 
his law studies during these years in the 
West, and had no difficulty in |«.s.sing 
the Iwr examinations at HulTalo in June, 
IHM. 

From November, 1S84, until October 
of the next year, Mr. Cary practiced law 
at Forestville, near Dunkirk, in [wrt- 
nership with Daniel Sherman. Niagara 
Falls was already beginning to give 
promise of its later industrial supremacy, 
and Mr. Cary resolved to settle there. 
Associating himself, accordingly, with 
Henry C Tucker, he practiced at the 
Falls in the firm of Tucker iS: Cary from 
October, IXH"), until May, \M~ . For 
the next six years he carried on a large 
practice without iwrtnershij) a.ssistancc. 
Since May 1, isit.'!, he has been ;us.soci- 
ated with William C. Wallace in tlu 
well-known firm of Cary \' Walkn c 
He has become a familiar figure in tlu 
courts of Niagara county, and is widcl\ 
known as an able and trustworthy altor 
ney. 

Outside of professional work Mr. Car\ 
has been espcM ially intercstetl in politiis. 
He was a member of the executive com- 
mittee of the Chautau(|ua-county Repub- 
lican committee in 1S«4. In the fall of 
that year he edited the political columns of a I tunkirk 
newspaper. Since going to Niagara I'alls he has 
been on the Republican « ity committee several 
times, and in the important iam|>.iign of IH'.Ui he 



was chairman of that committee. lU- was one of 
the alternate delegates to the Kepubliian national 
convention at St. Louis in the ^anle year. He has 
been a delegate to every Republican judiciary con- 
vention in his district for the htst ten \ears, and was 
chairman of the convention in IKlt.'i. Notwith- 
standing his activity and im|)ortan< e in the counsels 
of the Republii an |*arty, he has never t ared to hold 
public office. He has, however, been a member of 
the Niagara l*"alls board of education since March, 
lH!l(i. 

.Mr. Cary has been somewhat active in the busi- 
ness life of .Niagara Falls as well as in law and |K)li- 
tics. He holds directorates in the Power City liank 
and in the Hank of Niagara ; and ads as attorney 
for these in.stituti<ins, and for the IJank of Susjiension 
Bridge. He is a trustee of the .Niagara County 




Savings Kink, and presiilent ot the Niagara Falls 
.Memorial Hospital. 

/•/■lA'SOX.U. Cll KOXOLOaV — Eiisnit Can. 
•ifiis hi'in III lliiiikirk, X. )'., Xtri'fmhfril, IH'tl : 



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AfE.y OF NEIV VORh'—irF.STFRX SECT/OX 



graduate J from Cornell Uiih'crsity in 1878 ; 7C'a.( 
engaged in teaching and as superintendent of schools, 
and in reading laio, 1879—84 ; was admitted to the 
liar in June, 1884 ; married Mary M. IVai/d of Buf- 
falo July 5, 1882 ; practiced lawat Forestville, N. Y., 
1884—85 ; was an alternate delegate to the Republican 




IKI:IU<k'l(l< A. IIU.I.I:R. JR. 

national convention of 18!Mi ■ l/as frarticcd law at 
Niagara Falls since 188'). 

jfrC&CriCi? a. dPuUCl*, 5r., one of James- 
town's most public-spirited citizens, was horn in 
Rutland, Vt., fifty-odd years ago. He was only two 
years old, however, wjicn his parents moved to 
western New York and settled in Jamestown, where 
his father established a jewelry business. At the 
age of eighteen he graduated from the Jamestown 
Academy, and at once became an employee in his 
father's store. There he remained for the next nine 
years ; and then went to New York city, where he 
engaged for several years in importing fine watches 
and precious .stones. In lS7."i, however, he nturned 



to Jamestown to a.ssist his father once more, and 
three years later succeeded him in the charge of the 
business. This was nearly twenty years ago, and he 
has conducted the establishment ever since. 

In the case of many men, a business life monopo- 
lizes the largest share, if not the whole, of their 
attention ; and some such statement as 
that briefly given above comprises about 
all there is of interest in their careers. 
lUit it is not so with Mr. Fuller. W'liilc 
devoting himself actively to his jnivate 
affairs, he has given much of his best 
tliought and most earnest work for many 
years to public matters, both political 
and educational. His fellow-citizens 
have special cause to be grateful to him 
for his interest in the schools of the 
city. He was first chosen a member 
of the board of education in 1<S84, and 
has served continuously since, having 
been annually elected president of the 
board for the ])ast seven years. Much 
(if the ( rcdit for the jiresent admirable 
|>ublic-school system of the city ot 
lamestown belongs to him, since he has 
done more, perhaps, than any other man 
to create and maintain it. 

Mr. Fuller has long been active, also, 
in Democratic ])olilics in western New 
\'ork, and has been a ])rominent member 
of the Democratic state committee. In 
the first C'leveland campaign he was a 
liresidential elector: and though the 
youngest of the New York members of 
ihe electoral college, he was chosen with 
l''>rastus Corning of Albany, to deliver 
the sealed electoral vote of the stale of 
New York for President and Vice Presi- 
dent. 
Mr. I'ullcr is well known in social and businef^s 
life in Jamestown and beyond. He has been for 
many years a director of the City National Hank of 
Jamestown, and is a member of the Jamestown Club, 
lie takes an active part in the work of the First 
Presbyterian Church, and is one of its deacons. He 
belongs to the Reform and Democratic clubs of New 
\'ork city, and to the Sons of the American Revolu- 
tion. He has given considerable attention to the 
subject of his family genealogy, and takes a jiardon- 
able pride in the fact that he is a lineal descendant 
in the eighth generation of Dr. Samuel ImiIUt. who 
came over in the " Mayflower." P)y virtue of this 
descent Mr. I'"uller has membership in the Pilgrim 
Societv' of Phnioulh, Mass. 



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PERSONAL C IIKONOLOGy— Frfderuk A. 
Fuller, Jr., 7i'as born at Riitlaihl, I'/., April Vt, 
IS-iO ; 7('as eiliicalfil in lite JanusUmm (iV. }'. ) 
Aeailemy ; was a clerk in his father' s store in fames- 
town, lSi)~-ii(i ; married Cornelia Lit Mm' lieneiliet 
of Brooklyn, N. K, May 2^, ISdO ; ent^ai^ed in the 
jeivelry business as an importer in A^eiv Y'ork eitv, 
IS(!tl-7') ; was a presidential elector in ISSj : has 
lieen a member of the Jamesttrivn board of education 
since ISSJf, an I its president since ISfK) ; has con- 
ducted a ini<eliy business in faiiiestir;.'ii <i/rr /S7'^ 



Court of New York state in the fall of !««!». The 
judicial ronvcntion met in BtifTalo Octolicr .'i, 1HM!) ; 
and it was not until ten »!ays had elanseil, and I'll 
lialluts had iiccn tiken, that a nuininaliun was made. 
The elc( lion, however, iiroti^ht out the strennlh of 
theianditlate, and showed the wisdom of the choice ; 
since Judge I^mliert receivctl a larRC majority 
throii};hotil his district. II is field of work is the 
Hth judicial distri< t, whii h in<'hides the ctmntii-s of 
Krie, Chautanipia, ('attaniu){Ms, ( >rleans, Nia{{ara, 
('■enesee, Allejpiny, and Wyominn. 

••• Jnilge Ijimhcrt's career on the higher bene h has 

30bn S. laillbcrt, thoni^h he lia.-. hccn known justified his advancement l<i sii< h a station of trust 
as |iiiIl;c l,.iiiil.crt lor a loiii; time, attained that title and res|K)nsil>ilily. lie was less than forty years old 
so early in lile that lie has harilly yet reached the when his term as Siipreme t'onrt justice began ; Imt 
])riine of his jjowers. He was born in the eastern he had a natural ajititude for the judicial chilling, 
part of the luiiiiirc State, in Rensselaer comity, and his training and experience in life were likewise 
shortly after the middle of the century ; 
and received his edmation in the com- 
mon schools, and in (Ireenwich .\cad- 
cmy, Washington county. He then 
moved to the western end of the state, be- 
( oming a l;iw student in the olht e of Mor- 
ris i\: Russell of I'Vedonia, from which he 
was admitted to the Iwr in 1X77. 

Beginning jtractice at first in Mayville 
on his own ac<oimt. Judge l«ambert, in 
]X7X, accepte<l an invitation from his 
I'nrmer precejjtors, who showed their 
appreciation of his ability by taking him 
into imrtnership. He continiie<l a mem- 
ber (if the llrm of Morris, Russell i^' 
l.;imbert for four years, when Mr. Rus- 
sell withdrew, and the firm of Morris Xr 
l.nml)ertwas formed, which lasted until 
ludge Lambert's elc\ation to the beni h 
111 tiu' Supreme Court He proved him- 
self during this lime to pos.sess unusual 
talent as a legal practitioner, and he 
would lUKloiibtedly have taken rank with 
the leaders of his profession in western 
New N'ork had he remained at the bar. 

Juilge Ijmbert licgan to lake an in 
terest in public afTairs early in his pro 
fessional career, and .served on the board 
of supervisors of ('haiilaii<|iia county in 
IH.SO anil l-SSl as ihe member from the 
town of I'omfret. In the fall of ISXl 
he was elected by the l\e|iiiblican |>:irty 
as county judge of ('hauiaii<|ua loiinty : 

and his work in this iKJsilion was so well regarded thai factors in his smccss on the bench. He enjoys a 
his firNt term was followed by a second, beginning in high reputation with the legal profession of western 
lanuarv. IN.SS. He was not permitted to serve out New \'ork. In scMial life he is noted for his nfTaliil- 
this term, a.s he was elected a justice of the Supreme ity and extreme courtesy. 




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MEA OF XEir yORk'~U7-:STERA' SECT/ON 



PERSONA L CHR ONOL O G Y—John S. 
Lambert ivas born at Johiisonville, N. Y. , Februar\ 
4, 1851 ; 7oas educated at Greenwich {iV. Y.) Aca- 
demy ; studied taw, and was admitted to the bar in 
1877 ; practiced law at Mayville, N. Y, 1877-78, 
and at Fredonia, N'. Y. , 1878-89 : vtarricd Winni- 




J. C. AfORG.lX 

/red Phillips of Cassadaga, N. Y. , August 10, 1801 ; 
was a member of the Chautauqua-county board of super- 
visors, 1880-81, and county judge of Chautaui/ua 
county, 1882-89; has been a Justice of the Supreme 
Court of New York state since January 1, 1890. 



3. C. /IDOlljaU, though little more than forty 
years old, has been connected for nearly twenty 
years with the business of paper manufacture. Horn 
in Erie county, Pennsylvania, he passed the years 
preceding his majority in the manner usual to coun- 
try boys ; attending the district school regularly 
until the age of eleven, and after that working the 
greater jjart of the time, and going to school for two 
or three months each winter when there was no work 



to be done. When he was sixteen years old he left 
school, and went to work permanently. Several 
years later he took a short course at a commercial 
college ; but his succe.ssful business career, and 
present important position in the industrial world, 
must be ascribed to natural ability and close applica- 
tion rather than to any very thorough 
preparatory training. 

In the spring of \s~S Mr. Morgan 
began business on his own account, 
forming a partnership with H. F. Watson 
of Erie, Penn., for the manufacture of 
roofing and building paper. At first they 
had a small mill at Fairview, Mr. Mor- 
gan's native place; but in 1880 they 
Iniilt a mill in the city of Erie. Two 
years later Mr. Morgan sold out his in- 
terest there, and moved to Battle Creek, 
Mich., where he built another mill, and 
continued the manufacture of building 
paper. For several years he carried this 
on successfully ; but in 1890 he dis- 
posed of the business to the American 
Strawboard Co., becoming assistant gen- 
eral manager of the concern, and having 
charge of their twenty-si.x mills in the 
manufacturing department, with head- 
ipiarters at Anderson, Ind. 

Having obtained a thorough knowl- 
edge of the paper-making business, Mr. 
Morgan had been anxious for some time 
to engage in the industry on a larger 
scale than had at first been practicable. 
While carrying on his mill at Battle 
Creek he had formed a com]jany in Chi- 
cago, under the style of the Soo Pajjer 
Co., to build an extensive mill at Sault 
Ste. Marie, Mi(rh. ; but this project had 
been subsequently abandoned on account 
of difficulties in obtaining a projjer title, and in 
securing the nece.ssary water j)ower. Finally, in 
1891, he resigned his position with the American 
Straw^board t"o., and organized the Niagara Falls 
Paper Co., one of the largest concerns of its kind 
in the country, of which he has been from the first 
secretary and general manager. The erection of 
the ])lant at Niagara Falls was begun in the follow- 
ing year, and the comjiany has carried on an enor- 
mous business ever since. i'lic mill has a capacity 
of I'iO tons of finished paper per day ; and the 
Ijroduct turned out includes manilla, newspaper, 
and book-fini.shed paper. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— John Crook 
Morgan was born at Eain'iew, Erie county, Penn. , 



.UK.y or x/:iv vork—ivesterx skct/ox 



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August 8, 185') ; altenJed district schools and a com- 
mercial college : married I/altie E. Deivey of Shelh\\ 
Mich., December 4^, I8S11 ; engaged in the manufac- 
ture of paper at Erie, Penn. , and Battle Creek, Mich. , 
1878-00; 7C'as assistant general manager of the 
American Strawhoard Co., 18!H)-fH ; organized the 
.Viagara Falls Paper Co. in ISU], and has been secre- 
tary and \:<iu-r,il w,inai:er of the same since. 



JfrC^Cl•lCl! IR. iPctCrSOn, well known in the 

li-f,'al and politic al (in Ics of C'luuitaiii|ua countv, was 
liorn in the town of l-'.lli<ott. New York. His hoy- 
hood and youth were spent in the familiar way that 
has so often in American life led to eminence — 
attending district schools, teaching school at times, 
and working on the home larni more than anything 
else. I'his wa.s his life np to his twenty-first vear. 
In 1877 he entered upon a systematic 
course of instruction in Jamestown 
Union School anil Collegiate Institute, 
taking a classical ( ourse, and graduating; 
from the institution in ISHO. Having 
decided to follow the legal profession, 
he entered the office of Sheldon, tlreen, 
Stevens iS: Henediit, a |>rominent law 
firm of Jamestown, N. \'. After study- 
ing there zealously for several years, and 
aci|uiring valuable ex])erience in the 
actual ilis|)atch of legal Imsiness, he wa> 
admitted to the liar at Rochester in 
October, 1KX4. 

Opening an office at once in James- 
town, Mr. Peterson has ever since fol- 
lowed his profession there. He |)racti< ed 
alone for the first few years, but in IHS.s 
formed a jartnership with Clark K. 
Lockwood under the style of I.ockwood 
iV Peterson. This xs.sociation < ontinued 
until 1H!)2, when the firm was dissolved. 
In the same year Mr. Peterson formed 
a partnershi]) with Frank W. Stevens un- 
der the firm name of Stevens & Peter- 
son. This connection has been main- 
tained ever since, and has been distini tly 
successful. .\lr. I'eterson has shown 
himself a prudent and sagacious adviser 
on legal (piestions, anil a tnistworthy 
agent in the condiu t of litigation. He 
stands high in the esteem of the liar of 
Chaiitau(|tia county. 

Mr. I'eterson has taken an active |>art in (Kilitiial 
affairs, and his public life antedates by a year his 
professional career. Becoming clerk of Jamestown 
in 1«m;?, he continued to (lis< harge etficienlly the 



duties of the office until IMMM. He was one of the 
sii|H-rvisors of Chautauc|ua loiintv from Jaim-stown 
in l«;i-_' and again in lH;):i. in the fall of 1H!I(J he 
received the Republican nomination for the office 
of a.s.seml>lyman from the 1st Chauiaui|tia-i'Ounty 
district, and was elected by the extraordinary pliiralit\ 
of .iSCKt. In the legislature he served on the 1 ommit - 
tees on judiciary, revision, and the Soldiers' Home. 
Mr. Peterson is fond of sot iai life, and is a mem- 
ber of various social and fraternal organizations. 
He is especially interested in Kree .Masonry, and 
h.xs attained high rank in the order. He belongs 
to .Mt. .Moriah Lodge, No. 14'). V. & A. M. ; 
Western Sun Chapter, No. (57, R. A. .M. ; and 
Jamestown Commandery, .\o. til, K. T. He is a 
member of the Knights of Pythias, the order of 
KIks, and the Knights of the .NIaccabccs. as well as 




t ffiiiUKii K K /'t:T/-:/f.'io\ 

the Janie>Iown Club, Alliany Club, and the |-ir>t 
Methtwlist Church of Jamestown. 

PERSOXAL CIIKOXL J/. OG ) — EredeHck R. 

P,f,ii,tji : ■,;, /.nil in fh.- I,>;.iii nl I' !'•. ,:ll i'hautCIUltUa 



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MEN OF NEW YORK —WESTERN SECTION 



county, A'. Y., January 21, 1S57 ; graduated from 
the Jamestown (tV. K) Union School and Collegiate 
Institute in ISSO ; was admitted to the bar in October, 
ISSJf : married Edith S. Osgood of Jamestoton April S, 
ISSo : was clerk of Jamestoicm, 18SS-88, and a 
member of the board of sufen'isors, 1802-93 ; was 




(11 AK I. lis J. siiri.rs 

elected to the state assembly in 1N!)(! .• has prailiecd 
lato in Jamestown since 18 8. if. 

CbarlCi? 3. Si3UltS, one of the youngest 
newsijaper publishers in western New York, was born 
in Cattaraugus county thirty years ago. He was 
cehicatcd in the union school at l'",llicottville, his 
native town, and learned the printer's trade with R. 
H. Shankland in the office of the Cattaraugus Union, 
|)ul)lished at Kllicottville. Mr. Shankland was a 
friend of Horace (ireelcy, and a co-worker with the 
founder of the Tribune, and under him Mr. Shulls 
obtained an excellent knowledge of ihe ])rinler's 
craft. At that time, however, he had not de( idcd 
definitely to engage in the printing and jjublishing 



business ; and he therefore spent several months as a 
student in a law office, and also studied medicine for 
a short time. 

Deciding at last that a Inisiness career offered 
greater advantages on the whole than professional 
work, Mr. Shults gave up both the law and medi- 
cine, and embarked in the business with 
which he has since been identified — 
that of newspaper publishing. His first 
venture was the purchase of the Pine 
I'alley N^eias of South Dayton, N. Y., 
which he conducted successfully for three 
years. In 1(S85 he bought the Cherr\- 
Creek Monitor, and consolidated the two 
papers, issuing a new sheet called the 
Cherry Creek N^nc's. He is still pub- 
lishing this pajier, and is making it more 
and more valuable to its readers. In 
lcS90 he bought the Gowanda Herald, 
and has conducted that publication with 
vigor and success ever since. In addi- 
tion to these undertakings he acted for 
a time as state editor of the Buffalo 
F.nijuirer. 

Mr. Shults is well known to the news- 
|)aper fraternity of the state, having 
served for two terms as a member of the 
executive committee of the New York 
State Press A.s,sociation. \X the annual 
meeting of that organization in iSiMl he 
read a paper entitled "A Year's Experi- 
ence as an Advertising Agent," that 
attracted considerable attention for ils 
able and intelligent treatment of the 
i|uestion of advertising, so important to 
all newspa]ier publishers. His .state- 
ments carried additional weight as being 
the result of practical ex|)erience rather 
than of theoretii:al speculation. This 
experience had been gained not only in his work 
as a publisher, bul largely in connection willi the 
Consolidated Country Press ; which he organized 
in Buffalo in l.Sil'2, and which he still conducts, in 
company with Edward Rutherford, imder the name 
of Chas. J. Shults iS; Co. This a.ssociation controls 
the advertising of about a liuudred jiapcrs published 
in the territory tributary to liuffalo, and carries on 
a general advertising agency as well. Mr. Shults 
is now the secretary and treasurer of the Chaiilau- 
(|ua County Press .Association. He is a firm Repub- 
lican in i)olitical belief, and conducts his papers in 
the interest of that party. He has never thought 
it worth while to seek ])ublic office, but served as 
town clerk of Cherrv Creek in 1.SS7 and 1888. 



.\f/:.\ (>/ XF.U' yORk—UF.STERA SECT/OX 



M'.i 



Mr. Shnlts has lieen greatly interested in Masonry 
ever since he joined the order soon after attaining 
his majority. He was .Mxstcr of the lodge in t'herry 
Creek for two years ; and in September, lSi)4, he 
was appointed by John Hodge, (Irand Master of 
Ma.sons of New York .State, as District Deputy drand 
Master of the 2(ilh Ma.sonic district. This ap|K>int- 
ment was unsought by Mr. Shnlts, and was highly 
acceptal)!e to the fraternity throughout the district, 
where he was wiilely known and respected. In Jime, 
iXiM), he was again api>ointed to the position by 
( irand Master John Stewart, and serve<l a second term 
with credit and distinction. He is the youngest 
.Mn.son ever holding a position of this character. 

PERS ON A I. CHR ONOL O G V—CharUs 
fiiliiis Shiilti was Inmi at Kllicoltfillf, X. )'. , Fehni- 
ary 2S, 1S07 ; was educaUd in common schools ; mar- 
ried Eva M. Morian of Cherry Creek, 
N. }'., May 4, ISST : /earned the print- 
er s trade at Ellicotti-ille : 7t'as appointed 
District Deputy Gran / Master of Masons 
in ISOj , and attain in ISfMi ; has been a 
nerc'spaper envner and publisher in western 
Xiii' York since ISSi. 



aiL»Crt 1R. Smitb «as bom in the 
village of N\)rth Toiiawanda little more 
than twenty-five years ago. He spent 
his childhood on a (iirm on the lanks 
of the Niagara river ; and attended the 
public schools up to the age of eleven, 
when he became a clerk in a grm'ery 
store. His a<tive career, begim at this 
early age, has thus been considerably 
longer than that of most men of his 
years ; and has also been unusually var- 
ied, embracing as it does both busini-ss 
and professional life. 

When he was fifteen years old Mr. 
Smith became connected with the lum- 
ber trade, the great industry that has 
made the |)resent city of North Tona 
wanda one of the most im|>ortant com- 
mercial centers in western New York. 
For a time he acted as tally boy and 
shii)i>er. He then spent a winter al 
Hryant iS: Stratton's liusiness I'ollege, 
HufTalo, where he took a general busi- 
ness <ourse, learning stenograjihy and 
typewriting as well. In the spring of 
iSX't he entered the offi< e of Smith, 
t"o., lumber dealers in North Tonawanda 
rapher and confidential clerk, and remained with 
them for the next four xears. 



By this time Mr. Smith w.ts twenty -two years old, 
and had made a good start in business life. He was 
anxious, however, lor a different kind of .success 
from any to lie obtained as a liiinl>cr dealer ; and as 
he had now accumulated some money he was able to 
gratify this ambition, and jirejure him.self for the 
legal profession. Kntering the office of Lewis T. 
I'ayne in the sjiring of IXiCl, he applied himself for 
the next three years to the task of ac(|uiring the 
neces:<iry knowledge; reading Kent and Hlackslone, 
and fainiliari/.ing him.self with the praitical work of 
a lawyer's office at the same time. He t«Mik the kir 
examinations at Rochester June 17, \Wii, and was 
admitted to jiractice July 'i!(. For several months 
thereafter he remained in Mr. Payne's office, but on 
January 1. IH!'", he <>|K.-ned an office on his own 
account. 




\l HURT K SMITH 



1'as.seH \- 
as stenog- 



It does not happen to many men to assume judi- 
cial duties within a year of iheir admissifm lo the 
l>ar, but this was Mr. .Smith's ex|»eriencc. The act 
of the legislature |>as.seil .April "24, IX'.I?, <realitl the 



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city of North lonawauda ; and on A]iril 27 Mayor 
McKeen appointed Mr. Smith the first city judge of 
the new munici])ality. This a])pointmenl was the 
more noteworthv inasmuch as the mayor is a Re])uh- 
lican and there were three Republican applicants for 



Angus/ IS, 1S71 ; tvas educated in public scliools and 
a business college ; was clerk for a lumber firm in 
North Tonawanda, 1S89-93 ; studied laic, and icas 
admitted to the bar in 1S96 ; has been city judge of 
Xortli Tonawanda since May 1, 1897. 




K. II. lucKi-oiay 

the ])Osition, while Mr. Smith has always been 
identified with the Democratic party. 

Military and fraternal organizations have always 
been attractive to Mr. Smith, and have received his 
active sujjport. He is first sergeant of the S/ith 
Separate company, N. i\., S. N. Y., of Tonawanda ; 
and a member of the Young Men's Christian Asso- 
ciation and of ,\lert Hose Company of the same 
place. He belongs to Niagara Council, No. 71>^, 
Royal Arcanum ; is Junior Warden of 'I'onawanda 
Lodge, No. 247, F. iV .\. .\i. ; and a c harter mem- 
ber of Electric City Lodge, No. (KJ:!, 1. O. O. F.. 
and of Court Warwick, Inde[)endent Order of 
i-'oresters. 

PERSONAL CIIRONOlAHiy— Albert Rod;- 
icell Smith 7C>as born at North Tonaicanda, N. ) '. , 



IR. lb. BiC(;fOr& has been promi- 
nently connected with the leather indus- 
try in Buffalo ever since he first went 
thither thirty years ago. He was born 
in the southeastern part of New Hamp- 
shire in 1830, and at an early age began 
attending the district schools. After he 
became old enough he spent his sum- 
mers at work on a farm ; but he con- 
tinued his attendance at school during 
the winter until he attained his major- 
ity, and in this way secured an excellent 
general education. When he was eigh- 
teen years old he gave up farming, and 
spent a short time as a brick maker, and 
then w'ent to work at his present trade of 
belt and hose making. 

In 1849 Mr. Bickford left home, and 
went to Lowell, Mass. , where he worked 
at the latter trade for eighteen years for 
Josiah (iates. For the first four years 
he was employed as a journeyman : but 
after that he became .superintendent of 
the factory, and continued in that posi- 
tion while he remained in the establish- 
ment. By this time he had acquired a 
thorough knowledge of the business, and 
was desirous of starting out on his 
own account. .Accordingly, in January, 
lS(i7, he went to Buffalo; and estab- 
lishotl himself as a manufacturer of 
leather belting and lire hose, forming 
with Fred B. Curtiss the firm of Bickford & Curtiss. 
Two years later I'red Deming was admitted to j)art- 
nership, and the style became Bickford, Curtiss & 
Deming. In 187-") Mr. Deming retired, and the 
original firm name was resumed until 188.'5, when 
William C. Francis bought out Mr. Curtiss's inter- 
est, and the firm became Bickford & Francis. Mr. 
Francis died in April, 1889 ; and the business was 
reorganized as the Bickford i\: F'rancis Belting Co., 
Walter T. Wilson purchasing the interest of Mr. 
Francis in the working capital, and Mr. Bickford's 
son, R. K. Bickford, being admitted to a share in 
the concern. 

Mr. Bickford established his business in the 
beginning at ">.') and .")."> Fxchange street, and he 
has remained there e\er since. ISul though the 



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location has been unchanged, the Imsincss has en- 
tirely out};rf>\vn the limited proimrtions of thirty 
years ago. More sjiaie has been rei|iiired from time 
to time for the conduct of the business, and the 
staff of employees has been greatly increased; and 
to-day the concern carries on the manulaclure of 
leather belting and fire hose on an extensive scale, 
and enjoys a high repulaticjn in the commercial 
world. 

Mr. Hickford is an earnest Republican, and a 
firm believer in the distinctive Republican doctrine 
of protection for American industries; but he has 
never taken an active interest in |)arty affairs, nor 
cared to hold public office. He is a .'t^d degree 
Mxson, and Past .Master of DeMolay Lodge, No. 
4!IH, and attends the Raptist church. His greatest 
interest outside of his business has been the subject 
of music. For over forty years, begin- 
ning as a young man in Lowell, he sang 
in different chunhes. acting much of the 
time as choir conductor ; and he has al.so 
composed considerable church music. 

P/:/iSO\AL CIIROXOL OG \ ' — 
Ritlimoiul If. Biikford vas horn at Rotli- 
esler, N. //. , Fehniary S, ISiO ; 7i>as 
educated in common schools ; married 
Emma /. Tracy of Afercer, Maine, July 
IS, IS-'t-i : learned the trade of a belt and 
hose maker, and worked at the same in 
Ltrtoell, 18Jif>-07 : has carried on the 
manufacture of leather Mtini^ and fin- 
hose in Hu/falo since ISlli . 



GC01\1C JBllUlbaiU was born in 
lancaster, N. \'., and has always made 
his home there, though his work as a 
business man and as a |)ublic othc ial has 
been done in RulTalo. He is a son of 
Henry I.. Bingham, a native of \\'in(l- 
ham, Conn., who settled in western Ne" 
\'ork when a young man. 

.\fter a general education in |)ublu 
and ])rivate .schools, Mr. Hingham took 
up the ])rofession of a civil engineer, 
and at the age of eighteen became a 
rodnian in the eni|)loy of the oM HuM'alo 
vV Washington railroad under William 
Wallace, chief of the engineering de- 
])artment. He soon rose to more im|K)rt- 
ant positions, and finally had charge ol a 
division of the road as assistant engineer. He took 
iwrt, also, in the |)lanning and construction ol other 
railroads in the western states and Canada, and 
worked for a year in the city engineer's de|>artinent 



of Buffalo, nmning the levels for the topographical 
map of the city. In IN"'), howe\er, .Mr. Itinghain 
altandoned the calling of an engineer, and eniliarkcd 
in the hide and leather business, forming a |>artner- 
ship with S. W. Na.sh, jr., on May I, lN7<i. This 
connection w;ls (li.s.solved six months later, and .Mr. 
Hingham then conducted the business alone imtil 
May 1, lXK(i. In IXMM be became siijicrintendcnt 
of the Thom.son- Houston Klectric Light & Power 
Co. in Huffalo, and held the |K>sition for the next 
three years. 

In IMMO Mr. Hingham was ele« led to the state 
a.ssembly from the 4th Krie-iounty district, and in 
the memorable contest in the legislature of IHNl 
over the Cnited States senatorship, he distinguished 
himself by his vigorous supfHirt of the candidal y of 
Roscoe Conkling. In M'.M I'n-sident Harrison 




<:/i}/f<:/i til.sr.H.A.U 

ap|H)intcil .\lr. Ringham I intc<l .'>t.ilc. ,ipprai>er lor 
the [lort of Huffalo ; ami sin< e th.il lime he has been 
occupied with public senice, and has filled iin|<ort- 
ant ))osilij)nv ••> f' '■ !!■ '■•'■i '•'•• '"■-> ••< 



I4u' 



MEN OF iXEir )ORK—l\ESTER.\ SECT/OX 



appraiser for three years, or uniil he was elected 
county clerk in 1894. His discharge of the duties 
of this office has been marked by painstaking care 
and attention to details, and he has made an 
enviable record as an honest and capable public 
official. In lSfl5-9() he was the chairman of the 




CLAKEiXCE W. HAMMi'.M) 

Erie-county Republican committee, and in liSil") 
he was elected president of the village of Lancaster. 
He is also one of the justices o'" the jieace for the 
same town. 

PERSONA I. CIIR ONOL O G Y— Geoixc Bin,i;- 
ham 7uas born al Lancaster, N. K, December 21, 
1848 ; 7oas educated in public and private schools ; 
worked as a civil eni^inrrr, 18C,C, -To : married Carrie 
Lee of Lancaster September 4, 1874 : engaged in tbe 
hide and leather business, 1S7G-S6, and in electrical 
business, 1888-91; 7uas member of assembly in 1881, 
United States appraiser, 1801-94, president of the 
village of Lancaster in 189'), an I chairman of the 
Erie-county Republican committee, 189')-9(> : has been 
count}' clerk of Erie county since /anuary 1, 189i>. 



Clarence M. IbammoiiD is widely known 

and highly regarded in business circles in Buffalo,* 
where he has lived for nearly twenty years. Though 
he is now so closely identified with the interests of 
the Queen City, he had a business career of con- 
siderable length and importance before coming to 
New York state. 

Mr. Hammond was born in the little 
village of East Jaffrey, N. H., less than 
fifty years ago. He was taken West in 
childhood, however, and received his 
education and early busines-s training in 
Michigan. After attending the ])ublic 
schools of Saginaw for a time, he fin- 
ished his studies at Ypsilanti. At the 
age of sixteen he became a banker's 
clerk, gaining thus his first insight into 
the world of finance, which was afterward 
to be his succe.ssful field of labor. 

After a short e.xperience there Mr. 
Hammond engaged in a general mercan- 
tile business, becoming manager of a 
concern manufacturing lumber, salt, etc. 
He conducted this enterprise for a num- 
ber of years, and met with much succe.ss. 
in l.STil, in company with Wellington 
R. Burt of Saginaw, Mich., he estab- 
lished in Buffalo a wholesale lumber busi- 
ness and planing mill. The importance 
of Buffalo as a distributing center, where 
the product of the western forests could 
be advantageously prepared for the mar- 
ket, and shipped by rail or canal to all 
points in the East, was coming to lie 
realized more and more ; and the ven- 
ture of the two Michigan men proved a 
lortunate one. Mr. Hammond took an 
active part in the work of the Buf- 
falo Lumber ivxchangc, an organization 
formed to secure uniform freight rates, and in other 
ways to protect the interests of the lumber dealers : 
and largely instrumental in effecting the pa.ssage of 
the liill to abolish grade crossings within the city 
limits. His po])ularity with this a.ssociation wa . 
shown in the fact that when he retirtxl from the 
lumber business he was elected an honorary mem- 
ber of the exchange, a distinction never before con- 
ferred upon a member. 

In l.HS!) Mr. Hammond dis])osed of his lumber 
interests and made an entirely new dejiarture, organ- 
izing the People's Bank of Buffalo. His long experi- 
ence in the ])racti(al conchu t of business affiirs had 
been an excellent preparation for this venture in one 
res|)ect at least — he kni'w uhal tlie patrons of a 



An:.\ OF .\/:ir yoh'K—H'EsrRRX si:cr/o.\ 



U7, 



l)ank expect from such an institution. The result 
has jiroveil that he also |>ossesse<l the other ijiialities 
necessary to ensure success ; for he has l>een the 
moving and guiding spirit in the organization from 
the beginning, and the high stand it has taken among 
the banks of Huffalo is due ( hietly to his able and 
efficient management. He ha.s been cashier of the 
bank ever since its organization, and ha.s given his 
undivided attention to it. In January, 1H!I7, he was 
elected to the office of second vice president a.s well. 
Though political nominations have several times 
been offered to him, Mr. Hammond has uniformly 
declined them, deeming any active |>arliiipation in 
public affairs incom|»atible with a proper attention 
to his other duties. He is much interested in 
Ma.sonry, in which he has taken all the degrees 
except the '-VM ; and he belongs, also, to many other 
similar organizations. He attends the 
Initarian chunh. lie takes an active 
interest in all things < onnecled with his 
adopted city, and ha.s done much by his 
business foresight and acumen to main- 
Iain and increase its jirosjierity. 

/'/■:a'so.\ .1 1, c //Roxoi. oc;y — 

CItirfiiif //'. Iliimiiwnd ~iiHis horn at Iuk/ 
Jaffrey, X. H.,Jiiiu- S, 1S!,S : teas n/ii- 
caled in Michigan schools ; hegan hiisiness 
life in ISG-'i as a lumk clerk, and after- 
ward engaged in Inmher waniifacliire in 
Michigan : conducted a li'liolesale hiniher 
business in Buffalo, 1S70-S.'> ; married 
Adtle E. Sirrel of Buffalo June 2, ISS] 
has heen cashier of the Peofle' s Ban!.. 
Buffalo, since its organization in ISS:i. 
and second vice fresident since January I . 
I Sin. 

30b\\ /ID. l?Ull, who for the last 
do/cn \c.irs li,i> [iracliied law at ihc 
Mrie-county bar. was born in liuffaKi 
thirty-eight years ago. .\fler atlcnding 
I'ublic School No. ."i and the liulTalo 
t'entral High School, he prepared for 
college at t'ook .\cademy, a well-known 
institution inuler the control of the Hap 
tist church loiated at Havana, or what is 
now the village of Montour falls He 
then took a full classical course at the 
University of Rochester, from whii h he 
graduated in 1S.S2 with the degree of .\. 15. 

Leaving college then, with the world before him 
in which to choose his line of work, Mr. Hull deter- 
mined to fit himself for the legal profession. His 
studies were completed in due course, and in 



< >< tober, l«H|, he was admitted to the lor In 
I >ei ember of the siime \ear he o|K.'ncil an office in 
ISuDalo, and hxs prat ticed there coniinuou.sly since. 
He ha.s l>ccn content to stand or fall in his profes- 
sional career entirely on his own merits, forming no 
|iarlnership :ls.soc iations ; and his pn-scnt ;Ls.Mired 
jHisition and growing clientage prove the wisdom of 
his course. 

Mr. Hull h.xs never taken a very coaspiruotis |>arl 
in |K)lilical affairs, though he has long been known 
as an earnest Kcpubliian who c ciuld be counled on 
to work for his |>arly. His only public oflice thus far 
has been directly in the line of his professional duties. 
In October, |H!I4, he was chosen by the Krie-counly 
board of supervisors as their attorney ; and has held 
the jiosilion ever since, having been reap|Miinled in 
(>■ lober, I. sil.'i, and .igain January I, |Sil7 




/<i//\ .1/ IK 1 1 

In pn\atc as in public lite, .Mr. Hull is <|iiiel 
and iin.a.ssuiiiing : but he has many friends in hi.i 
native c itv who know and admire his genial nature 
and many agrei.ibli- .iM.iliiiis \\v is .i M.ison, 



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belonging to Washington Lodge, No. 240, F. & 
A. M.; Keystone Chapter, No. 1()2, R. A. M.; 
Hugh de Parens Commandery, No. 30, K. T.; 
and Ismailia Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. 
He attends the Delaware Avenue Baptist Church. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY —John M. Hull 
7oas horn at Buffalo December 16, 1858; attended 
Buffalo public schools and Cook Academy, LLavana, 
N. v., and graduated from the University of Roches- 
ter in 1882 ; was admitted to the bar in 1884 ■' ^'"-f 
been attorney for the Eric-county board of supen'isors 
since October, 1894 : has practiced law in Buffalo 
since 188 4. 

3C\VCtt ^D. lRiCbmOn5 is known to all Buffa- 
lonians a.s a business man of unusual sagacity and 
spotless integrity, and a citizen whose time and 
means for many years have been freely bestowed in 
behalf of every deserving ijublic movement. The 
Richmond family came to America in early colonial 
days, and settled in Massachusetts. Mr. Richmond's 
grandl'ather, Josiah Richmond of Taunton, was a 
soldier in the Revolution ; and afterward removed 
to Barnard, Vt., with his son Anson. Anson Rich- 
mond took part in the w-ar of 1812 ; and at its close 
emigrated to central New York, and settled in the 
village of Salina, aftenvard part of the city of Syra- 
cuse, where he engaged in the manufacture of salt 
until his death in 1834. 

Jewett Richmond was born at Syracuse in 1830, 
and received a common-school education there. At 
the age of seventeen he became a clerk in a countr\ 
store in the neighboring village of Liverpool, where 
he remained four years. He then went back to Syra- 
cuse as clerk in the grocery store of William Gere. 
In 1 sr)3 Mr. Richmond and two older brothers, with 
William (Jcre and William Barnes, began the manu- 
facture of salt and flour on an extensi\e scale. 
Branch stores were opened in several large cities, in 
each of which Mr. Richmond had an interest ; and 
in the spring of 18.14 he went to Buffalo as manager 
of the branch in that city. 

In 1860 Mr. Richmond disposed of his interest in 
this concern, and established a grain commission 
liusiness in partnershi|) with Henry A. Richmond. 
The venture was successful from the first, and in 
1803-04 the Richmond elevator was built by the 
firm, which was known as J. M. Richmond & Co. 
Mr. Richmond had now been actively engaged in 
business for nearly twenty years. He had worked 
with tireless energy, and had met with unusual suc- 
cess ; and he felt entitled to a long vacation. He 
gave up his business, accordingly, in 18()4, and went 
abroad, where he spent the greater part of a year in 



tra\el. Returning to Buffalo in 180"), he formed a 
partnership with his two brothers, Alonzo and Moses 
M., and resumed the commission busine.ss, which he 
conducted for the ne.Kt fifteen years with much suc- 
cess. In 1881 he retired from active business, and 
has since devoted himself to the care of his exten- 
sive real-estate and other interests. 

Early in his business career Mr. Richmond estab- 
lished a reputation for conducting to a successfiil 
issue any enterprise that he undertook : and his fel- 
low-citizens have freijuently been glad to avail them- 
selves of this ability. The case of the Buffalo & 
Jamestown railroad, well known to the older genera- 
tion of Buffalonians, is perhajis the most conspicuous 
instance of his public-spirited zeal. On the organi- 
zation of the road in 1872, Mr. Richmond was 
elected the first president. He accepted the posi- 
tion with reluctance ; but having once accejjted it, 
he threw himself heartily into the work of raising 
funds, and building and equipping the road. The 
financial depression of 1873 proved a serious obsta- 
cle to the progress of the undertaking, and only the 
most ]jrompt and energetic measures saved it from 
failure. Mr. Richmond gave himself unreservedly 
to the care of the enterprise : and, though his pri- 
vate interests suffered materially, he succeeded in 
completing the road, and putting it in successful 
operation in 1875. He then resigned the presi- 
dency, and turned his attention once more to private 
affairs. 

Mr. Richmond has been president of the Buffalo 
Mutual Caslight Co. for twenty-five years, resigning 
in the spring of 1897. In 1867 he was elected 
president of the Marine Bank of Buffalo, and held 
the office two years, when he resigned on account of 
]iressure of other business. He afterward ser\ed as 
vice president of the institution, and from 1.S1I2 to 
1894 was again its president ; and he is now a mem- 
ber of its board of directors. He is vice president 
of the Buffalo Savings Bank, and has been president 
of the Board of Trade. 

When the new charter of the city of Buffalo went 
into operation January 1, 1892, an u]iper house was 
|)rovided in the city legislature, known as the board 
of councilmen, and consisting of nine members 
elected on a general ticket for a term of three years. 
Mr. Richmond, who had often before declined to 
let his name be used for political office, yielded to 
the wishes of his friends, and accepted the Demo- 
cratic nomination for this new office. He was 
elected for the years 1892-94, and during the last 
two years he was president of the board of council - 
men. Throughout his term he was acknowledged 
bv both parties to be a most \aluablc public servant : 



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and it was a matter of general regret that he ( ould 
not l)e induced to acLept a second term. 

Though he has Uecn so active in business life, and 
so successful in the management of business enter- 
|»rises, Mr. Richmond hxs never been wholly absorbed 
in such matters; but has maintained a hearty inier 
est in all that concerns the intellectual 
development of the communily. He 
is a life member of the iSuffalo l-'ine 
Arts Academy, the Society of Natural 
Sciences, ami the HulTalo Library ; and 
was president of the latter a.ssocialion for 
three years, and a member of the build- 
ing committee at the time of the erection 
of the society's handsome building, on 
Lafayette sijuare. He belongs to the 
HuiTalo and Lalconwood clubs. 

rERSOXAL LURONOL OGY — 
Jnvfit Afelvin Richmond 7t<as horn at 
Syracuse December 0, 1S40 ; attcihfci/ 
common sc/ioo/s ; rcas a clerk in country 
stores, ISIfl-oS : engaf^ed in the manu- 
facture and sale of salt, IS'ii-OO ; mar- 
ried Geraldine H. Rudderoro of A'e^o 
York city Noi'cmher 10, 1,S'70 ; conducted 
a grain commission Inisiness in Buffalo, 
1860-81 ; was president of the Buffalo &- 
famesto7i>n railroad, 187 2-7 'i : since 1881 
lias been occupied with the care of his 
estate, and 7C'ith his duties as an officer in 
-uirious corporations. 



IRobCrt 1v. SmitbCr is well known 
in IJuffalii not onl\ .i> an enterprising 
and suci essful business man, but also for 
his intelligent and active interest in 
public ad'airs. Any city is fortunate that 
can command the services of prac tical, 
clear-headed men in carrying on its gov- 
ernment ; and few men have been more efficient in 
this regard than Mr. Smither. 

Mr. Smither was born in Lngiand, in the historic 
city of Winchester, in lx.")l, anti is therefore well 
under fifty years of age. He was brought to .America 
by his [arents in childhood, and has made his home 
in HuflTalo since \WX, when he secured a situation 
as a ( lerk in the drug store of W. 11. I'eabody. 
l-'rom that time on — almost thirty years now — Mr. 
Smither has been connectetl with the drug business 
in Huffalo ; and he long ago be<ame one of its lead- 
ing pharmacists. .After oi<upying a res|>onsible 
position with Mr. I'eabody, and becoming widely 
and thvoral)ly known in his profession, he acted for 
a time as manager of a similar establishmen' ''"^ \\ 



R. Cmmh; and in iHT.'i began business for himself 
at the corner of Niagara and Jersey streets. He 
still carries on this store, which hits l)v<:oinc, with 
the lajjse of years, one of the most extensive in the 
city. Aliout ten years ago he 0|H.'ne«l a second store 
at the corner of Llinwootl avenue and Itrvanl street. 




// II /• / / 1/ /.'.'. ii\i,i\ii 

in the midst of a new and rapi<lly growing .section 
of the city ; and since that lime he has conducted 
the two stores with continued success. 

.Mr. Smither is dexolcd to his profession, and 
has done mm h to raise the stan iard of its memlier- 
ship in Krie county and throughout the state. He 
was active in sup|)Orl of the bill to restrict the prac- 
tice of pharmac y to persons pro|>erly c|iialified and 
licensed therefor, and had an iin|M)rtant |iart in 
securing its |j«i.s.sage in the legislature. He has been 
president of the Krie tounty HoanI of I'hamwty 
since its organization in 1N«4 : and is ex-president 
of the Krie County Pharmaceutical .A.s.scm iation, and 
c hainnan of the Hoard of Curators of the ItufTalo 

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elected president of the New York State I'harma- 
ceutical Association, ami was reelected in 18!)7. 

Mention har. been made above of Mr. Smither's 
jjublic service. This began in 1879, when he was 
elec-tcd a member of the board of supervisors from 
the old iltli wird. Huffalo, on the Republican ticket. 




Roni-.R r K. SMIIHIUi 

He was re-elected three times, thus reijresentini;; 
the ward on the county board for eight years, or 
until his removal to another |)art of the city. 
.■Mthough but twenty-eight years old when first 
elected, his natural ai)titu<le for public affairs .soon 
a.sserted itself : and he became known as one of the 
most efficient members of the board, and served as 
its chairman for three terms. In the first election 
under the new city charter, in 18111, he was the 
Re|)ublican candidate for alderman in the 24th ward, 
and was elected by a substantial majority. Two 
years later he was re-elected by a largely increased 
majority; and in 18!).") he was nominated by accla- 
mation for a third term, and ele< ted by the largest 
majority ever gi\en for a ward offirer under the 



revised charter. In l.s;)4 he was the president of 
the common council, and in 1895 he was unani- 
mously elected president of the board of aldemien. 
Mr. Smither's work in behalf of a clean, luisiness- 
like administration of city affairs, and his successful 
efforts in securing various nece.s.sary reforms, are 
known to all Buffalonians ; and it may 
be confidently e.xpected that they will 
make fiirther use of his administrative 
talents in the future. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY — 
Robert Knigitt Smitlier was Iwrii at Win- 
clicxlcr. Eng., October 10, 1851 ; came 
to America in 1S5S ; became a clerk in 
a Buffalo drug store in 1868 ; marrieii 
Lucretia C. Newkirk of Buffalo August 
23, 18H ; was a member of Ihe Eric- 
county board of supervisors, 1880— 87 ; has 
been alderman from the 2Jfth laard, Buf- 
falo, since 1892, acting as president of the 
common council in 180 Jf and president of 
the board of aldermen in 1895 ; has con- 
ducted a drug business in Buffalo since 
1875. 



3. IP. ■JTbOnipSOn l^s been inti- 
mately connecteil lor half a century with 
the manufacturing and other interests of 
liufl'alo. His father, Sheldon Thomp- 
son, had an important part in the early 
development of western New York, and 
his more remote ancestors were jiromi- 
nent in the Connecticut colony in ante- 
revolutionary days. Anthony, the first 
of the family to emigrate, came to Amer- 
ica in 1()87, and was one of the foimders 
of New Haven. Major jabez Thomiison, 
the great-grandfather of A. 1'. Thompson, 
served in the Colonial wars ; had com- 
mand of the first troo])s sent from Derby, ("onn., 
inunediately after the lighting at l,e.v:ington ; and as 
colonel of his regiment was killed in the retreat from 
New York, September 15, 177(i. His son, also 
named Jabez, born in 1759, spent his life as a 
.sailor, and was lost with his vessel when only thirty- 
five years old. His son Sheldon, a boy of ten at the 
time, was thus obliged to care for himself, and 
shi|)ped as a cabin boy on a vessel of which his 
brother William was the master. He followed the 
sea for the next fifteen years, and eventually obtained 
command of a fine shi]) in du' West India trade. 
At this lime, however, the hostilities between the 
great I-airopean nations rendered commerce on the 
ocean ■ exceecbngh- dangerous and iliiTu ult : and in 



.I/A.\ ()/■- .\/:il- y(^KK — irESTER\ SKCT/ON 



n: 



ism Sheldon rhom|)Son was induced to join some 
(ilhcT adventurous spirits and emii,'rate to the wilder- 
ness of western New York with a view to building 
up a trade on the lakes. 'Ihe firm of Townseiui, 
IJronson & Co. was organized, accordingly ; and 
during the first year one schooner of a hundred 
tons was huilt anil laun< hed on I^ike Ontario, and 
another on Uike Krie. .M)out the year ISKi .Mr. 
Thompson moved from I.ewiston to Black Ko(k, 
and at once beianie one of the most infiiienlial 
(iti/ensof l-;rie ( ounty. In addition to his part in 
extending and firmly establishing the commeri e on 
the lakes and on the I'.rie <anal, he has the distinc- 
tion of being the first mayor of Hufialo ele( ted by 
the people, and one of the founders and first vestry- 
men of St. Taul's (■hMr( h, the first ICpi.scopal church 
in Ituffalo. 

.Augustus Porter Thompson was born 
at Hlaik Rock in iS'i."), when that settle 
ment was still a rival of its neighbor, 
liuffaio. The (piestion of the fiiiurc 
supremacy of the two places had l>ecn 
practically .settled, however, several 
years before in favor of BulTalo, when 
that village was chosen as the terminus 
of the Krie canal ; and in l.S.'JO Mr. 
'Thom|)son's father took up his residence 
there. Porter 'Thompson received an 
excellent eiluialion for those early tla\s, 
attending academies at Lewiston and 
Canandaigua, and private schools in 
liulTalo. .After that he spent several 
years in his father's establishment as a 
clerk, acipiiring a general knowledge of 
business principles and methods. 

On attaining his majority Mr. 'Tliomp 
son reieived an interest in the firm of 
Thompson iS: C'o., manufacturers of while 
lead ; and he has always been connecleil 
with this industry with the exce|>lion n' 
•1 short interval in the 'CO's. In iMIid. 
having disposed of his interest in the 
lead works, he a.s.socialed him.self with 
T'.dward S. Warren and I )e (!armo Jones, 
and built a large anthracite blast fiirnace 
— the second of the kind in I'ulTahi. 
I.alcr these two fiirnaces were united iin 
der the name of the liuffaio I'nion Iron 
Works, and a third fiirnace w;ls built, 
and one of the largest rolling mills ever erected 
uj) to that time. In |S(i(> Mr. Thompson severed 
his connection with the iron works, anil bought 
an interest in the lead factory of S. G. Cornell 
i^ S(Ui. afterward the Cornell Lead Com|>any. He 



became vice president of this concern, and after 
ward president ; and held the latter offiic until the 
business was transfcired to the National Lead Com- 
[any in 1HM7. Since that time he ha.s been a 
director of that i om|iany and the manager of its 
liuffaio branch. 

.Mr. 'Thom|>son has naturally liccn interested in 
various enterprises outside of his work as a manu- 
facturer. He was for .some yearN cashier of the 
HufTalo City Rink, and a member of its Uiard of 
ilirectors. He w.as also a member of the first Uwrd 
of directors of the old railway com|>any that built 
the raad on Niagara street in ls(!(l. He h.is taken 
an active and publicspiriled |i,irt in nian\ ntove- 
mcnts fiir promoting the intellectual welTbeing of 
Itufialo. He is a member •■C ''"• hi.iTil.. (|. i.^r,. ,1 




.1. /'. ///l'.l//'.SI'.\ 

Society, and a life memlK-r of the Kuffnlo Library 
and the HufTalo Tine Arts .\cademy. He is one of 
the wardens of St. I'auTs Church, and a trustee of 
St. Margaret's School, HufTalo, and occupies other 
]>osilions of trust and rcs|ionsibility. 



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FERS ON A L CJlIi ONOL O G Y— Augustus 
Porter Thompson 'lOas born at Black Rock, N. Y., 
February H, 182~> : was educated in private schools 
and academies; married Alatilda Cass Jones of 
Detroit, Mich. , June 9, 1853 ; was a member of the 
firm of Thompson ^ Co. , Buffalo, manufacturers of 




IIIiXRV W. WKNDT 

7cihitc lead, ISiU-tJO ; engaged in iron manufacture in 
Buffalo, 18(10-66 ; was a tnemlier of the Cornell Lead 
Co. from 1867 until it became the Buffalo branch of 
the National Leal Co. , and has been its manager 
since. 

•flDClirV} "m.. TlllCUC»t, thou-h still less than 
thirty-fix e years of age, has lillecl an imjiortant ]jlace 
in the maniifactiiring world for more than fifteen 
years. Born in Buffalo in the early "(ill's, he has 
always made his home there. I'^ven during his 
schoolboy days, he evinced a natural bent for 
mechanics, which he lost no oi)])ortunity to gratify. 
After receiving a good practical education in the 
public schools of his native city, he entered the 



employ of the Buffalo Forge Co., beginning at the 
bottom, and working at the bench and lathe, and 
thus gaining a practical knowledge of the machinist's 
trade. In the same manner he mounted step by ste]j 
through all the different departments until in Janu- 
ary, l)SJ^(i, he was admitted to partnershi]) in the 
concern ; his brother, William F. Wendt, 
having a few years previously acquired 
entire ownership and control of the 
business. 

The association was a most fortunate 
one, as has been proved by the con- 
tinued prosperity and the steady enlarge- 
ment of the concern. The iinportant 
place that it occupies to-day in the man- 
ufacturing world is due in no small 
part to Mr. Wendt's thorough practical 
knowledge of the mechanical and en- 
gineering parts of the business, and to 
the faculty for going to the bottom of 
things, which was .so marked a charac- 
teristic when he was a mere lad. His 
wide experience in designing, and in the 
practical installation of some of the 
largest heating and ventilating plants in 
the country, supplemented by his natural 
mechanical ability, has gained for him a 
standing in the foremost rank of heating 
and ventilating engineers ; and there is, 
[jerhaps, no one to-day whose advice on 
weighty matters in this line is more fre- 
cpiently in re(|uisition, or whose stand- 
ing as an authority is more widely 
recognized. 

Of a sanguine temjjerament ami a 
naturally genial disposition, Mr. Wendt 
has the power, so common to self-made 
men, of inspiring in his subordinates 
some portion of his own enthusia.sm, and 
comprehensive grasp of mechanical problems ; the 
result is, that he is surrounded by a corps of engi- 
neers whose loyalty to, and un(]uestione(l faith in, 
their employers has contributed very materially to 
the success of the firm. Their uninterrui)ted pros- 
perity, which has suffered no check in good or bad 
times, and their re|)utation for being always fully 
abreast with the latest developments in engineering 
science and imjiroved processes of manufacturing, 
are due in no small degree to his personal influence. 
.\s consulting engineer in the larger and more 
im])ortant work engaged in by his firm, Mr. Wendt 
travels considerably and enjoys an enviable aci|uaint- 
ance among scientists and engineers at home and 
abroad. In the field of invention he has made 



MEX OF NEW VOA'A—lVESrEA 



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a considerable mark, several jtatcnts having been 
granted him for improvements in various lines of 
engineering. 

Although enjoying a wide acquaintance among 
public men, with whom he comes in contac t almost 
daily in his own city and el>ewhere, he has never 
allowed his name to be used in connection with a 
])ublic oftice. He is a member of the board of trus- 
tees of the Buffalo Builders' Kxchange, and promi- 
nent in Masonic circles. 

PERSOX.IL CHRONOLOGY— Henry W. 
We ltd t was born at Hiiffalv June lU, ISU-i ; was 
eiiucated in Bujfalo public schools ; learned the ma- 
cliinist's trade 7oif/i the Buffalo Forge Co., and lias 
been a member of the corporation since 188G. 



C. %CC HbCll, well known among the younger 
business men ot HulTalo, was born in that 
city about t'orty years ago. For several 
generations his family has been promi- 
nent in western New York, his grand- 
father, Thomas d. .'Vbell, having moved 
from Vermont to Kredonia in 1J<14. He 
was one of the foremost men of the 
place, as was his brother Mosely ; and 
had an important jart in the develop- 
ment of Chautaucjua county. In com- 
|)any with two others, Thomas .Vbell 
established in lH2!laline of stagecoaches 
between Buffalo and Erie ; and he is said 
to have made the first stagecoach in the 
coimtry. He was one of the founders 
of Fredonia .\cademy. He moved to 
liulTalo in lHr)2, and died there five 
years later. His .son, William H. .\bell, 
the father of our |iresent subject, was 
also a |>rominent man. Born in N'er 
mont in 1X14, he was taken West during 
infancy; graduated from Kredonia .Acad- 
emy : lived in .Austin, Texas, during the 
years lx:?!l-42, holding several important 
public offices there : and s|)eiu the rest 
of his life in Buffalo in various success- 
ful commercial jmrsuits. He died there 
in 1SH7. 

Mr. .Vbell's maternal grandfather, Oli- 
ver I,ee, was a native of l'onnecti< ut. 
but moved to western New York in early 
life. He took a prominent |>art in the 
oi)erations on the Niagara iVontier during 
the war of \M'l, and afterward engaged extensively 
in lake commerce and in other mercantile pursuits. 
He was a man of strict integrity and unusual business 
ability ; and throughout his career enjoyed the 



confidence and esteem of a large circle of friends. 
.At the time of his death in lM4li he was president 
of the .Attica & Buffalo railroad, and of Oliver I.ee 
& Co. 's Bank, Buffalo. 'I'his latter institution was 
founded by him, and conducted successfully for a 
number of ye;irs. 

C Lee Abell l>egan his active business career at 
the age of sixteen in the office of a wholesale coal 
dealer in Buffalo, with whom he remained for al>out 
four years. The next few years were devoted to 
various clerkshi|>s in Buffalo, and two years' ser\'icc 
in Bradford, I'enii., with the Unite<l l*i|H; Lines. 
.After the burning of the Marine elevator in 1X7!I, 
he formed a (artnership with his father and Daniel 
(>'l>ay for the pur|K»e of building and o|ierating 
the new Marine elevator. This purjKJse was effe<tetl 
in 1HS1, and the business was successfully ronductc«l 




C. LEE MIEI I 



as a |>artnership until lN'.t4. .\t that time the 
elevator was enlarged, and the business w,t.s trans- 
ferre<l to a stock com|>any of whi< h Mr. .M>ell was 
made jircsident and nxnnager The Marine elevator 



450 



AfEA' OF NEW YORK— WESTERN SECTION 



handles easily 20,000 bushels of grain an hour, and 
stores at one time 700,000 bushels. This business 
is Mr. .Abell's chief commercial interest ; but the 
care of his father's estate devolves largely upon 
him. and reijuires a part of his time and attention. 



ROBERT /•■. ATKIXS 

As for i)ersonal matters, mention should be made 
of Mr. .Abell's long and distinguished career in the 
National Guard. Beginning as a private and a 
charter member of the Buffalo City (iuard C"adets, 
he served successfully as sergeant, second lieutenant, 
and first lieutenant. He was elected cajitain of 
company C, 74th regiment, Octolier 3, 1881 ; and 
became major in July, 1891, and lieutenant colonel 
the next year. He resigned from the National 
Ouard in April, 1804. He is a ;?2d degree Ma.son, 
belonging to Buffalo Consistory, A. A. .S. R., and 
to Hugh de Fayens Conimandery, No. 30, K. T. 
He has membershi]), also, in various other fraternal 
organizations. He has been an active force in the 
Democratic party for many years, attaining sj)ecial dis- 
tinction in conned ion with the Cleveland Democracy. 



PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Charles Lee 
Ahell was born at Buffalo October 4, 1856 ; held 
various clerkships in Buffalo ami Bradford, Penn., 
1872-80 ; married Emma L. Earthing of Buffalo 
.March 25, 1880; was a member of the N^ational 
Guard in Buffalo, 1881-9J,. ; has been 
manager and part owner of the Marine 
elevator, Buffalo, since 1881. 




IRObCrt 3f. atkinS was bom in 

London, England, sixty years ago, but 
has made his home in Buffalo ever since 
his fifteenth year. He was educated at 
Knox's College, Toronto, and afterward 
attended Bryant & Stratton's Business 
College in Buffalo. He then obtained a 
situation in an undertaker's establishment 
in Buffalo, and this vocation he followed 
until 1801. 

When the war broke out it found Cen- 
eral Atkins with a wife and two small 
children, and a newly established busi- 
ness that needed his attention. He gave 
up all his personal interests, however, 
and at once prejjared to go to the de- 
fense of his country. He probably 
shared the general belief at that time 
that the struggle would be a short one ; 
but having once set out, he never fal- 
tered, but remained in active service 
until the last rebel comiiany had laid 
down their arms. In April, 18(il, he 
iielped to organize a company from the 
ranks of the volunteer fire department of 
Buffalo, and was elected its first lieuten- 
ant. They presented themselves for duty 
in New York two months later, and were 
temporarily stationed at Castle Garden. 
When Colonel Cochran's regiment, the 1st United 
Slates cha.sseurs, was organized, General Atkins 
received an appointment as third sergeant of com- 
])any B. The regiment was a.ssigned to General 
Graham's brigade, Couch's division, 4th corps; 
and was in active service at Ball's IMuff, Wil- 
liamsburgh, Yorktown, Fair Oaks, and Seven Bines. 
In the latter engagement Sergeant Atkins was 
wounded, and sent home on furlough : and while 
there he was promoted to the rank of first lieu- 
tenant, and a.ssigned to company C, the color com- 
pany of the llGth New York volunteers, of which 
Colonel Chapin was the heroic commander. The 
regiment served with General Banks in Louisiana, and 
Lieutenant .Xtkins acted as brigade i|uartcrma.stcr and 
commissar\' on the staff of Brigaflier General ('h;ipin 



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4.'il 



throughout the camiwign, and in the enga(;emcnts 
of Baton Rouge, Plains Stone, Coxe's Plantation, 
and the siege of Port Hudson. During this cam- 
|)aign he was advanced to the captaincy of his com- 
pany ; and in .\iigu.st, 1M(;:{, he \v;ls made lieutenant 
colonel in the iMth I'nited .States infantry, and 
appointed to the hoard of examiners of officers for 
L'nitetl States trooi)s, with head<|uarters at Port Hud- 
son. In the examination for this |>osition Colonel 
.Atkins stood first among a large numher of officers, 
and was a.ssigne<l as commaniling officer of the 4ih 
United States engineers at Fort lirashear. He was 
mustered out at .New Orleans in Seittemher, lUf!."), 
and in 1S(>8 received a brevet commission a.s colonel, 
for meritorious service. 

Returning to Buffalo in 1865 after an ahsence of 
nearly four and a half years, (Jeneral .\tkins became 
local editor of the Evening Post, and in 
1H70 jayma-ster of the .Anchor line of 
steamboats. In 1K77 he took up again 
his former business, and he has long 
been known as one of the leading under- 
takers of Buffalo. He was ])resident of 
the New York .State I'ndertakers" .As-so- 
ciation in 18«1 and 1.S.S2 ; and took an 
active jxirt in the formation at Roche.ster, 
fourteen years ago, of the National I'n- 
dertakers' .A.ssociation, and wa.s elected a 
delegate to the first convention of the 
a.s.sociation. 

(General Atkins has been actively in- 
terested in the (Irand Army of the 
Republic from the time of it.s organiza- 
tion, ami ha.s five times been ele<ted 
commander of t'hapin Post, No. "_', of 
Buffalo. He is also a member of the 
Tnion Veteran Legion, a.s well as a 
number of other societies — military, 
liatridtic, and fraternal. He takes spe- 
cial interest in the Independent ( Irder 
of Odd I'Vllows, and has been an active 
worker in that organization for many 
years. He wa.s the first de|)artmcnt 
comiTiander of the Patriarchs .Militant I'l 
the Kinjiire State, and derived his till' 
of brigadier general from that position. 
He intrea.sed the niunber of Cantons in 
the state from .seventeen to twenty-six, 
and Canton Persch, No. 2(), of Buffalo, 
was mustered in by him. He belongs 
to Canton BulTalo, No. .">, and was its first cap- 
tain. He was lor two years president of the Odd 
Fellows' Club of Buffalo. He is a member of 
the I-'.nglish l.uther.in Trinity Chun h, and i> the 



only .American member of the order of the Hani- 
gari in this country. 

PliRSOiXAL CUK O.XOL OU ) — Rohm J or 
sytJi Atkim was horn at Lomion, /Cn/;., Ffhruary Bi, 
IS.iT ; was fducate,! at Knox' j Cot/ff^f, IWonto, anil 
/iryant &• Stratlon' s lUniiifss Collfj^f, liuffalo ; mar- 
ried Susan /■:. W'lieeler of Ihiffalo June H, IS'u : 
sers'tJ in the Union army, ISUt-ti.'i : loas loeal edi- 
tor of the " /u'enint,' Post," lfir,i:-t;u, and paymaster 
of the Anchor line of steamers, ISlU-'tl : was Com- 
mander of the Patriarchs Militant oj the Ein/'ire State 
in ISSil ; has conducted an undertaJtinf; estahlishment 
in Ihiffalo since IS 7 7 

"Cnilltam 1?. .1Bra^l£ib »as born in Wayne 
(ouni), \c» N ork, .ilmut forty years ago; but his 
lurents moved to Batavia when he was only two 




II//.///.1/ // IIRAIUSII 

years old, and there he obtained hi.s cduiaiion and 
his early busiiu-ss experience. Having graduatitl 
from the Batavia High School, he se^^■c<l for a time 
as recorder in the office of the coiinlv • Icrk of 



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MEN OF NEW YORK— WESTERN SECT/ON 



Genesee county, and was afterward employed by his 
father, who owned a large wood and iron working 
establishment in Batavia. In 1877 he went into the 
newspaper business, establishing with Malcolm U. 
Mix the Batavia Daily News. When this enterprise 
was well under way he sold out his interest therein. 




BRONSON C. RUMSF.Y 

and sought a wider field of activity in the neighbor- 
ing city of Buffalo. 

Notwithstanding his varied experience, Mr. 
liradish was but twenty-three years old when he 
began his residence in the Queen City. His first 
employment was that of stenogra])hcr for Sprague, 
Milburn & S])rague, one of the leading law firms of 
the city, with whom he remained for four years. He 
then acted as superintendent of the (lilbert starch 
works at Black Rock for a time. Subsequently he 
was connected with the firm of Bell, Lewis & 
Yates, coal dealers, and with Richard Humphrey, 
a (lour and feed merchant at Black Rock. For 
several years jjasl Mr. Bradish has carried on an 
insurance office and a lirokerage business in real 



estate and mining stocks, and in this he has been 
wholly successful. 

Mr. Bradish is an earnest Republican in political 

belief, and has interested himself actively in public 

affairs for many years. In 1892 he was his party's 

candidate for alderman in the 2oth ward, and his 

]j0]jularity was so great that he was 

elected although the district is usually 

strongly Democratic. Two years later 

he was re-elected by a largely increased 

majority, and in 1896 he occupied the 

important position of president of the 

board of aldermen. 

For eleven years Mr. Bradish was 
prominently connected with the National 
(hiard, serving most of the time in the 
74th regiment. He was for a time 
first lieutenant of company B, Spaulding 
Guards ; and afterward first lieutenant 
and captain of company A. He was also 
elected president of company I), Buffalo 
City Guard, comprising the old com])any 
U, the Gordon Highlanders, and the 
mounted Buffalo City Troopers. When 
he retired from the National (iuard he 
held the rank of major on the staff of 
General William F. Rogers. 

Ever since his early newspaper experi- 
ence in Batavia Mr. Bradi.sh has been 
more or less interested in the [uiblishing 
business, and in general newspaper work. 
He acted for a time as manager of the 
Black Rock Publishing Co., and he has 
done occasional work for different ]>apers 
as a correspondent. He attends the Pres- 
byterian church, and belongs to a number 
of clubs and other organizations. He is a 
member of Occidental Lodge, No. 766, 
F. iS: A. M. ; North P.uffalo Lodge, No. 
51 7, I. O. (). F. ; and Black Rock Court, I. O. F. His 
clubs are the Acacia (Masonic), the Fraternity (Odd 
Fellows ), and the Audubon, an association devoted to 
hunting, fishing, and shooting, and maintaining a well 
e<|uipped shooting park. He is a prominent member 
of the Black Rock Business Men's Association. 

PERSONA L CHR ONOL O G V— William 
//a mil/on Bradish ivas I'orn at Lyons, N. Y. , April 7, 
1856 ; teas ciliicatcd in Batavia pul>lic schools ; engaged 
in various business enterprises in Batavia, 1870—79 ; 
married Louise H. Reichert of Lhiffalo April 26, 
1887 ; 7tias an alderman from the 2')th icard, Buffalo, 
1893-97, and president of the board of aldermen in 
1896 : has lived in Buffalo since 1870, and has con- 
ducted a brokerage and insurance business since 1892. 



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453 



EDwarl) .IGCUnCtt, l>rcsi(tcnt of the HufTalo 
Savings Hank, was l>orn in the (Jiiccn City seventy 
years ago, and has sjient almost all his life there. 
He was just twenty-one when the California gold 
lever of 1«4X broke out ; and, with the enthusiasm 
of youth, he at once set out for the new i;i Dorado. 

Returning to HufTalo after a year's absence, Mr. 
Hennett soon established a re])Utation xs one of that 
city's most trustworthy men of aflairs. In 1«77 he was 
elected a trustee of the Huffalo .Savings Hank. In 
-Augu.st, iMilO, he was elected its first vice ])resident ; 
and in (October, 1898, on the death of Warren 
Bryant, the president, Mr. Hennett succeeded to 
that office. The Huffalo .Savings Hank was t-stab- 
lished in 1x41!. and is therefore the oldest institu 
tion of its kind in Huffalo. 

When the revised charter of the city wa.s adopted 
in l.S.j;], enlarging its boundaries to in- 
clude the village of Hlack Rock, and 
increasing the number of wards to thir 
teen, Mr. Hennett wa.s elected one of two 
aldermen from the i>th ward, and re- 
tained his seat in the common coun( il 
by re-election tor four years. In 1J<7'J 
Mayor Brush a])])ointed him a member 
of the board of park commissioners, 
and he held the office for sixteen years 
by successive rea|)pointments from (lif- 
erent mayors. In 1x77 he was nomi 
nated by the Workingmen's jjarty for 
mayor of Buffalo, and the nomination 
was endorsed by the Tax Pavers' .\s.s<> 
ciation. 

Mr. Bennett is a member of the Buf- 
falo iMub and of the Orpheus Singing 
Soi icty. He has been a trustee of the 
Charity Organization Society of BulTalo 
ever since its early days, an<l has taken 
an active interest in its work of super- 
vising and regulating the charities of 
the city. 

J'/CRSOX.'I /, CIIKONOL OGY — 
EihoarJ fleniietl 7(>iis horn al Ihiffitlo 
Fehniary ^l, 1827: receiveii an afijileinif 
fJiicalioii : was a clerk in a liiy-i^ooih 
stoif, ISJf l-.'fS : rnj^axci/ in minin;^ anii 
other enterprises in California, lS!fS-J^!K 
ami in the real-estate business in Buffalo, 
IS'tO-!)7 : married Mary Josephine Osier- 
Auihinleek Oetohcr l!t, ISS'i .■ rcas an 
alilerman from the 'tlh jcanl, Buffalo, lS.'il,-.'t~ , 
and a park commissioner, 1S7~-SS : has heen 
president of the Buffalo Saviiif^s Bank since October, 
t\f).!. 



Ijarlail IQ. £rUdb, editor of the North lona- 
wanda Daily Nncs, is a native of Ohio, and made 
his home there until his removal to western New 
York in inm. Horn in .Nelson, I'ortiige county, in 
1 ■*<().">, he began his education in the public s< h(x>ls 
at an early age ; and entered .Mt. L'nion College 
when only thirteen years old. He took a classical 
course there that Ixstetl two years ; but left college 
in his sophomore year, and l>egan to make his own 
way in the world. 

.Mr. Brush has been t onnected Irum the first with 
the printing and publishing business, and though 
little more than thirty years oi age, his ex|>ericnce 
therein e\ten<ls o\er a |>eri(Hl of fifteen years or more. 
He learned the printer's trade in the office of John 
C. Ciarrison, publisher of the Alliance (Ohio) Weekly 
Standard : and at the age of eighteen purchased a 




/if>\\.iKl> iih:\XF.TT 



job-printing office in .Mliancc, and began to work 
for himself. In 1NX7 he formetl a |nrtnership with 
his fonncr employer, Mr. (larrison of the Stamtard: 
and the next year he organi/e<l a stoi k com|>any 



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MEN OF NEW YORK —WESTERN SECTION 



with a capital of S1G,000, for the purpose of purchas- 
ing the two Republican papers of the place, the 
Review and the Standard. He became manager of 
the company, and conducted it for about six years 
with much success. The same year the company 
was organized he began the publication of a daily 




IIARLAX W. ISRUSH 

paper called the Daily Review, which became, under 
his vigorous management, a |)rosperous and well 
conducted |)ublication. 

In December, l.H<)4, Mr. Brush sold out his inter- 
ests in Ohio, and moved to North Tonawanda, where 
he purchased the Daily News, which he has edited 
and published ever since. During this time the 
place has developed from a village into a city which 
is growing rapidly, and which presents unusual evi- 
dences of material prosjjerity. So thriving a com- 
munity offers an e.xcellent field for a newspaper 
man of energy and ability such as Mr. Brush has 
proved himself to be, and he may be counted on 
to make the 'i'onawanda News a ])ower in the 
Lumber City. 



Politically Mr. Brush's sympathies have always 
been with the Republicans, and he has long been an 
active and efficient party worker. During his resi- 
dence in Alliance he served for a time as secretary 
of the Republican committee there. Since moving 
to Tonawanda he has taken a prominent part in 
public affairs ; and in the fall of 1897 
he received an appointment as United 
States consul at Clifton, Ont., a posi- 
tion that he will doubtless fill with entire 
credit. 

Aside from his newspaper business Mr. 
Brush has been actively intere.sted in 
several manufacturing enterprises, and 
has become thoroughly identified with 
the general life of the community. He 
attends the Methodist Episcopal church, 
and is a member of the Alpha Tau Omega 
college fraternity. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY — 
Harlan IV. Brush was born at Nelson, 
O., May 27, 1865 ; was educated at com- 
mon sclwols and Aft. Unio7i (O.) College ; 
learned tlie printer' s trade at Alliance, O. , 
lSSO-85 ; married Annetta Hamilton of 
Emlenton, Penn. , May 16, 18SS ; con- 
ducted a job-printing office in Alliance, 
1885-87 , and published a newspaper 
there, 1887— 9J^ ; 7aas appointed United 
States consul at Clifton, Ont., in 1897 ; 
has been proprietor and editor of the North 
Tonawanda ' ' Daily Neivs ' ' since De- 
cember, 1894. 



Carl XEburstou Cbester has 

practiced at the Buffalo bar for fifteen 
years, and is well known in the jirofes- 
sional and general life of the Queen 
City. Born in Connecticut forty-odd 
years ago, he spent his childhood and youth there, 
moving to Buffalo at the age of sixteen. He had 
already received an excellent fundamental educa- 
tion in the public schools of his native state, 
ending with several years' attendance at the Norwich 
Free Academy ; and he finished his preparation for 
college in the Buffalo Classical School under Profes- 
sor Horace Briggs. He returned to Connecticut to 
com])lete his education, entering Yale College in 
1871, and graduating therefrom four years later 
with the degree of A. B. He took a high stand 
in scholarship from the first, and won distinction 
throughout his course. He received the Junior 
Exhibition prize and the De l''orest medal, the two 
highest prizes in literature and iiratorv in the gift 



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of the university ; and he was chairman of the 
lioard of editors of the Yale Literary Maga/inc. 

Mr. Chester determined to follow the law as a 
profession, and he spent two years in New V'ork 
at the Columbia l^w School iinmeilialely after 
leaving college, graduating in 1K77 with the degree 
of LL. H. He then became managing clerk in the 
office of Bowen, Rogers iV I.ockc, one of the most 
l)rominent law firms in Huffalo. He rcmainetl there 
for several years, receiving thus an excellent train- 
ing in the practical work of a busy otVice, and gain- 
ing experience that has been invaluable to him 
since, .\fter an interval of about a year spent in 
Kuropean travel, Mr. Chester in 1MH"2 opened an 
office in HutTalo on his own account. His .success 
was marked from the beginning, anil proves the 
value of thorough ])rei>aration for such a career. 
I^irge and im|>ortant as is the clientage 
he has built up, it is the result of his 
individual effort ; for he has steadily re 
fused all offers of partnership associa 
tions, ])referring to control the entire 
business of his otfit e with the aiil of an 
able staff of assistants. Though he has 
devoted himself to general practice, not 
making a specialty of any jarticular 
branch of the law, he has become widel\ 
known as the counsel for large estate^. 
corporations, and business houses. 

Mr. Chester's sound and accurate 
learning in the law was recognized in 
the early years of his professional life by 
his a|)poinlment as a member of the 
faiulty of the Huffalo l-iw School .soon 
after its organization in l«)S7. He has 
retnined his connection with this institu- 
tion ever since ; and is at present pro 
fessor of the law of insurance, wills, 
si>ecial actions, etc. Since ISHii he has 
been the secretary and attorney of the 
Buffalo ( )riihan Asylum ; and for upwanls 
of ten years he has acted as secrclarx 
and treasurer of the board of trustees of 
the City and County Hall. 

In the social life of BiilTalo Mr. Ches- 
ter is well known, and he is especiall) 
popular in club circles. He belongs to 
the Buffalo, Saturn, and University clubs, 
and to the Yale .Mumni and P. K. V.. 
a.ssociations of western New York. He 
served for two terms a-s |>resident of the S;iturn Club, 
and is a member of the council of the University Club. 

PEKSOX.IL CHROXOLOGY—Carl Thurs- 
ton Chestfr was Iwrn <il Xi>nc'ii/i, Conn., Aiii^tsl I. 



ISii.t ; gradualtJ from YaU ColUge in 187 it, tin,/ 
fnnn Columbia Colttge Law School in IS77 ; was 
managint; cUrk in the office of Bcntfn, /fogfrs &^ 
I.oikf oj Huffalo, IS77-.S1 : has f>r,t,-liifil law in 
Buffalo sintf '. 

Otl>^0ll X. DOllillaSS, vice president and 
general manager ol the U c*slern 'I'ransit Co., is a 
lineal descendant on his father's side of U'illiam 
Itougla.ss, who settled in ( llout i-sler, Mass., in 1(>40, 
and Major Brian Pendleton, who came to America 
in lli.'iO and settled in Watertown, Conn. On his 
mother's side he comes of a ra< e of sturdy, honorable 
ship larjK'nters and seafaring men, who emigrated 
from Ciermany in 1 (•."!(>, and settled in New York. His 
grandfather in this line was (.'aptain John Wiruins, 
whose career deserves more than a |>assing mention. 




CARL THIKSTOS VHESTh'K 



lohn Winans was l>orn in l'oughkee|»ie. N. Y.. 
June 1.'). I7<><i. He learned the trade of a ship 
car|>cnter untlcr his father, James Winans. whose 
shipvard was at that time a nnte<l place for the 



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MEN OF XEW YORK — WESTERN SECTION 



building of ocean vessels as well as river craft ; and 
he ultimately succeeded his father in the ownership 
of the business. When Robert Fulton started the 
first steamboat ever built — the ' ' Clemiont ' ' — from 
New York for Albany September 2, 1807, John 
Winans was on board. He had been Ijrought in 




G/BSON L. DOUGLASS 

contact with the great inventor through Robert R. 
Livingstone, Fulton's friend and partner and the 
legal coimselor of Captain Winans. Chancellor 
Livingstone appreciated the ability of the latter, 
and brought the two men together for the purpose 
of aiding Fulton to perfect his invention. Captain 
Winans had watched the construction of the "Cler- 
mont" with the deejiest interest, and had given 
Fulton many valuable suggestions. When the suc- 
cess of the new invention was secured he immedi- 
ately contracted with Fulton and Livingstone for 
the right to build and navigate steamboats on I^ake 
(leorge and the waters of Lake Chamjjlain lying 
within the borders of New York state. He at 
once set about the construction of a vessel for this 



purpose ; and in the spring of 1808 he launched 
from the foot of King street, Burlington, Vermont, 
the steamboat '-Vermont." This steamer was 120 
feet long, twenty feet wide, and eight feet deep ; 
and had a speed of four miles an hour. She was 
the second steamboat ever constructed in America ; 
and Captain Winans, as her builder, 
owner, and navigator, may justly claim a 
high ]ilace among the industrial pioneers 
of the land. The "Vermont" com- 
menced regular trips between Whitehall, 
N. Y., and St. Johns, Canada, in the 
spring of 1809 ; and from that time until 
-she sunk at Isle Au Noix in October, 
1815, had an eventful career. During 
the war of 1812 she was used by Commo- 
dore McDonough and General Macomb 
for the transportation of troops and sup- 
plies on Lake Champlain ; and she took 
an active part in the battle of Platts- 
burgh September 11, 1814. During 
these years Captain Winans organized 
the Champlain Transportation Co. and 
the Lake Cleorge Steamboat Co., both of 
which are still in existence as part of the 
Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. system. 
The state of Vermont granted to Captain 
Winans and his associates, November 10, 
1815, the sole right to navigate with 
steam vessels the waters of Lake Cham- 
plain within the boundaries of that state ; 
and this grant, together with his con- 
tract with Fulton and Livingstone for 
New York waters, gave him control of 
the steamboating on lakes Champlain 
and George. In 1815 he superintended 
the building of the steamer " Phoenix " 
at Vergennes, Vt., for the Champlain 
company, and the next year he built for 
himself the steamer "Champlain." 15oth of these 
vessels were burned within a few years. The 
steamer "Caldwell," which was built about this 
time, and of which I'aptain Winans was half owner, 
was the first steamboat ever used on Lake George. 
This vessel furnished the connecting link in the 
water transportation between New York city and 
Montreal, since the great thoroughfare between the 
north and the south at that time was by way of these 
two northern lakes. Having .successfully established 
steam navigation on these waters, Ca])tain Winans 
sold his interest in the two transportation com- 
panies and returned to his native city of Pough- 
keepsie, where he died June 5, 1827. He was 
married September 2, 1793, to Catherine Stewart of 



Af/:X OF XAir VORK—ll'ESrEfiN .VA 



Foughkeepsic. Many original documents of imiisual 
interest connei ted with the early history of steam- 
boating on the waters of I^ke Champkiin and l«ike 
George were left by Captain Winans, and are now 
in the possession of his grandson, Mr. I)ougla.vi. 

\V hcther it lie owing to a s|)ccial interest in the 
subject of transjiortation inherited froni his grand 
father, or to some other caiisc, the fact remains that 
Mr. Douglass's entire business life has been devoted 
to this kind of work : and that few men in Tlie 
coimtry have had a greater amount of practical 
experience in that line than he. I'he altered 
conditions of the present day have prothu ed many 
changes in the transportation industry ; but Mr. 
Dougla.ss has exercised the same forc>sight, en- 
ergy, and .sagacity that were consjiicuoiis in C"ap- 
tain Winans's career, and has met with e<)ual success. 

Kntering the employ of the Western 

Transportation Co. as a clerk in their , 

ottice at Troy, N'. Y., at the age of nine 
teen, Mr. Douglass has ever since been 
connected with that com])any and its 
successor, the Western Transit C"o. In 
1865 he succeeded to the management 
of the Troy agenty of the comjjany, am! 
held that position for upwards of fifteen 
years. In 1881 he was ap])ointed gen 
eral freight agent of the comjjany, with 
headquarters in New York city ; and 
when the New York Central railroad pur- 
chased the organization in 1884, and it 
became known as the Western Transit Co. . 
he continued to occu|)y the same position. 

During these years Mr. Douglass has 
been connected with various other freight 
organizations ; and his experience in 
all branches of inland transixjrtation — 
canal, rail, and lake — has been remark- 
ably extensive and thorough. During a 
part of his years in Troy he represented 
the New York Central road as agent for 
the Blue Line and subsequently for the 
Merchants' Desjiatch rrans|iortation Co., 
both all-rail fast freight lines. From 
1872 to 1877, also, he was the Troy 
agent for the Northern Transportation 
Line, a canal anil lake line doing busi- 
ness between New York city, northern 
New York, and Canada via the Cham- 
jjlain canal and l^ke Champlain. He 
was a director in this company, and at one time its 
general superintendent. In New York city his du- 
ties were still more varied and im|>ortant. In IM'.IO 
he was ap|>ointed manager of the floating pro|>erty 



of the New York Central railroad ttscd in the harlwr 
of New York, and o|K-rated under the name of the 
New York Central Lighterage Co. At the .same 
time he managed the grain elevators of the New 
York Central and West Shore railroads, and the 
Last-river piers of these (om|fcinies. In January, 
|X!I7, he was electevl vice president and general 
manager of the Western 'Tr-x-i' '"'• ■■••I 1>>- ^m,. .. 
made his home in HulTalo. 

Mr. Douglo-ss is a Denunr.it lu jMdiin.il bclicl, 
but has never had time to interest himself actively 
in public affairs. He is a Mason ; and belongs to 
the Kllicott Club of Huflalo, and the Trans|iorlalion 
Club of New York city. He attends in ItufTalo the 
Delaware .\venue ^K•lh<>di^t Lpis<<)|ial Chun h. 

/'/■h'SOX.t/. (. //A'O.VO/.Ol.y— Cilnon I.. 
Doug/ass was born al Chaty, Clinton county, .X. )'. , 




JOHX \\I\A\S 

fiiniiarx i2, IS.tU : mariied Anna M. Oja s of Chi- 
fiigo Marih -in, ISHi ; hecamf a (Urk in llif ofiiif of 
Ifif il'fitfrn TransfHtrttUion Co. in Troy, A'. )'., in 
l.f'tS. <;//,/ A.n /'fz-n luHrr/y engageif in tftr luinJIing iimf 



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MEX OF NEW YORK— WESTERN SECT/ON 



transportation of freight ever since ; has />een 7<ice presi- 
dent and general manager of the Western Transit Co., 
with headquarters at Buffalo, since January 20, 1897. 



3atUC5 .16. 1f5Uff is one of the most po]nihr 
citizens of lonawanda, both politically and socially ; 




J.A.MES B. HUFF 

and this fact is perhaps best accounted for by iiis 
character, which is modest and unpretentious, and 
generous to a fault. He was born in Tonawanda 
barely forty years ago, and has always lived there. 
He received a thorough education in the public 
schools of the town, which he attended from early 
childhood until he was twenty years old. 

Public affairs have interested Mr. Huff intensely 
ever since he was old enough to vote, and he began 
to hold office soon after he attained his majority. 
Nominated by the Democratic ]jarty in 187!) for the 
position of village clerk, he was elected by a major- 
ity of 200. The next year he defeated a different 
candidate by about the same niajorily. His popu- 
larity was so generally recognized ihnt in tJu- three 



succeeding years no one could be found to accept 
the Republican nomination against him, and he was 
re-elected each time without opposition. But Mr. 
Huff does not believe in monopolies, even though 
they be political ones ; and at the end of five years 
he refused to allow his name to be used as a candi- 
date, thus leaving the field free to other 
competitors. His next public office was 
that of village treasurer, to which he 
received a unanimous election. He has 
also served as trustee of the village, and 
has attended county and other conven- 
tions of his party. 

Mr. Huff's allegiance to the Demo- 
cratic party was put to the test in 1896, 
when the free-silver declaration was in- 
serted in the Chicago platform ; and it 
was a question whether he should stand 
by his party or his principles. The lat- 
ter triumphed, however, and he cast his 
vote for a candidate who would maintain 
the currency of the country on a gold 
basis. In the spring of 1897 Mr. Huff 
was chosen to bear the standard of the 
disaffected faction of the Republican 
]5arty in Tonawanda as their candidate 
for president of the village. That fac- 
tion had suffered defeat the previous 
year, and it was felt that he was the only 
man who had a chance of succeeding 
against the regular Republican nominee. 
The result of the election was most flat- 
tering, since he received a large majority 
of the votes cast. Indeed, Mr. Huff has 
never been defeated in a contest for any 
public office, and it is easy to predict for 
him further (lolitical trium])hs in the 
future. 

Of late years Mr. Huff has been 
prominently identified with the great lumber in- 
dustry at Tonawanda, having established himself as 
a wholesale lumber dealer in 1892. He is well 
known in Masonic circles, iielonging to Tona- 
wanda Lodge, F. & A. M., and Tonawanda Chaji- 
ter, R. A. M., as well as to Zuleika Crotto, 
No. 10. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY — James B. 
Huff 7vas horn at Toniuoanda, N. V., August 14, 
lS-'>7 ; 7oas educated in the puldic schools : married 
Etta L. Long of Tonaicanda December 21, 1881 ; 
has served as clerk of the village of Tonatvanda, village 
treasurer, and 7'illage trustee ; rmis elected president of 
the village in March, 1897 ; has carried on a whole- 
sale lumber business at Tonawanda since 1892. 



MEX OF \/-:il- YORk—n-KSTERX SJ 



4.V.f 



]E^\Var^ C. IROtb, one of the best-known 
insuramc men ol' IJulTalo, \v;ls born in that tity 
shortly before the l)eginning of the Civil War. His 
scholastic education was not carried far and his 
l)resent fund of general information was aK|uired by 
judicious reading and observation after he had left 
school, and entered the larger world of business. 
He pre|>ared himself to take the course of study at 
the high school in Buffalo, but fmally decided not 
to do so. Instead of that he began business life in 
his early teens by entering the old hardware estab- 
lishment of De Witt C. Weetl & Co. I'lirjKjsing to 
learn the business thoroughly, he remained with the 
house in various grades of ser\ice about five years, 
and thereby ac(|uired not only a minute knowledge 
of the hardware business in |articular, but also an 
excellent all-round training in genend business 
principles and u.sagcs. 

The death of the senior Mr. Weed in 
1H7H produced .some unsettlcment in the 
Weed concern, anol indirectly resulted 
in Mr. Roth's retirement from the ser- 
vice of the house. He then engaged in 
the business with which he has ever since 
been identified — insurance. Kntering 
the office of William D. l^wis, he re- 
mained with him about four years, and 
learned thoroughly every branch of the 
insurance biisine.'vs. By that lime he had 
become so well known among insurance 
|>eople that James Ferguson, a prominent 
underwriter of New Vork city, sought 
his alliance in a i>artnershi|) in the lire 
and marine insurance business. Mr. 
Roth accepted the offer, and the firm of 
Ferguson i\: Roth wrote a large volume 
of insurance ii|> to the time of .Mr. I'cr 
gu.son's death in IHH."). Mr. Koth then 
lontinued the business under the present 
well-known style of Edward C. Roth \ 
Co. In l^^SS C.eorge H. Hiighson was 
admitted to the firm, and in \W\ Frank 
W. Fiske, Jr., became one of the lurl 
ners : these two, with Mr. Roth, con- 
stitute the existing firm. 

Since Mr. Roth has concerneil himself 
with insurance the business has changeil 
in many res|)ecLs, and has enormously 
exiwnded as regards both volume antl 
kinds of risk a.ssumed. l-'ire and marine 
risks constituted at first the greater i«art of his biisi 
ness, and still make up a large proi>ortion of his 
transactions ; but he has added from time to time 
various branches of insurance — boiler, plate-glass. 



burglary, employcfs' liability, etc. — as new condi- 
tions produced new hazards and the need of cor- 
res|x)nding safeguards. He is now the Hiiflalo 
representative of some of the strongest com|ianies 
in the world, providing insurance against a multi- 
tude of I xsualties. 

rilRSONAL CHROXOI.OGY— F.thi'arJ C. 
Rollt was horn nl Buffalo Oclithfr 2 J, 18,'tH ; liuis 
tihicattii in Ihr f>uHi( schools of Ihf cily ; u>as fmploytil 
in a hiirthottre ttorr, I - ■ ,Urk in an insur- 

ancf ofuf, ISISSI . : :r WflUr of liuf- 

falo September 4U, 1891 ; Has (omlucteil a general 
insurance business in Buffalo since ISSl. 



JObn X. SCbWart.?, vice president of the 
Bullalu l!rc«cr>' .\s--ch i.ition, is a native of the (Jueen 
City, and is well known in its business. scN-ial, and 




/■nil Iff /> r ffnTN 

|iolilical lil'e. Born in l^.'ilt in the ulil llh n.inl, at 
the lorner of W.Lshinglon and Chip|(ewa streets, he 
rei eive<l his early eiliication in St. Mii hacl's jiaro 
chial w hool ; and when St Canisius College was 



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MEN OF NEW YORK —WESTERN SECTION 



opened in 1870 he became one of its first students. 
Alter a course of four years there he left school at 
the age of fifteen, and began business life. 

At this time Mr. Schwartz's father and brother 
carried on a planing mill in Buffalo, and the young 
man went into business with them for several years. 




JOH\ I.. SCHWARTZ 

I'our years later the father died, and the business 
was dissolved ; and Mr. Schwartz became a clerk in 
the office of Joseph Berlin, who conducted a general 
insurance and coal business. After about a year in 
this capacity he established a coal and wood business 
on his own account. He was just twenty-one years 
old at this time ; but he had had consideral)le busi- 
ness experience, and was well iiualified by natural 
ability and training to carry on such an undertaking. 
He conducted the enterprise with entire success for 
twelve years, when he sold out to his brothers, 
Edward J. and Joseph .\. Schwartz. 

Having disposed of his coal business, Colonel 
Schwartz took up an entirely different line of work. 
In company with John S. Kellner, Kdwartl A. 



Dicbold, and Joseph Phillips, he bought the plant 
of the Queen City Brewing Co., at the corner of 
Sjjring and Cherry streets, and established the Star 
Brewery for the conduct of a general brewing and 
bottling business. He has devoted himself to the 
management of this enterprise ever since, and has 
become widely known in one of Buffalo's 
most important industries. 

Though he has never held public of- 
fice. Colonel Schwartz has long been 
prominent in the counsels of the Demo- 
cratic party. He is actively interested 
in several fraternal societies, and has 
membership in many such. He was for 
many years one of the board of trustees 
of the Buffalo Catholic Institute, and is 
still a member of the organization. Since 
18!l2 he has been Grand Treasurer of the 
Catholic Mutual Benefit Association, 
having been elected for the third time 
at Syracuse in 1897. He owes his mili- 
tary title to his connection with the 
Uniformed Catholic Knights, having 
been colonel of the 2d regiment of that 
organization in the state of New York 
for the past eight years. He belongs, 
also, to the Buffalo Orpheus, the Catholic 
Benevolent Legion, and the Royal Ar- 
canum ; and is a trustee of St. Michael's 
Church. He has been a member of the 
board of directors of the Buffalo Volks- 
freund Printing Co. since 1887, and 
president of the Alumni of St. Canisius 
College since 1894. 

PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— 
John Leo Schwartz tuas born at Buffalo 
April IS, 1S59 ; was educated at St. 
Canisius College, Buffalo; worked in his 
father' s pla/iing mill, 1874-78, and in a 
coal office, 1878-70 ; carried on a coal and wood 
business in Buffalo, 1880-92 ; married Elizabeth J. 
Zegeivitz of Rochester October 12, 1887 ; has been 
manager and part owner of the Star Brewery, Buf- 
falo, since 1892. 



■Cbomas Eiuietic Marncr, "cii known for 

many years in the journalism of Niagara county, was 
born in Orleans, Ontario county, fifty-odd years ago. 
He received his education in the .schools of his native 
town, and at the age of si.xteen began to earn his 
own living. He was fortunate in choosing at first a 
trade that proved congenial, and that led naturally 
to the position of newspaper publisher which he has 
filled now for u|)wards of fifteen years. 



AfF.X OF \EH' VORk'—lVESTKKN SECr/OX 



4tU 



Hecoming a printer's apprentice in an office at 
Phcl|>s, N. Y., in lH(i(l, he worked at his trade for 
the next seventeen years. I lis apprenticeship wa-s 
conii)lcte<l in the office of the C.cncva Gazette, under 
Steithcn H. I'arker, one of the best-known represen- 
tatives of the Democratic press in the state ; and his 
practical experience of the ]»rintcr's craft was {gained 
in a nuniher of newsi>aper offices in some of the 
largest cities in the United States, where he became 
thoroti};hly conversant with the difTerent deiwrtments 
of the business. In 1S77 he took u|) an eniirciv new 
line of activity, acce|)ting an apiiointment as wanlen 
of the Jersey City Charity Hospital, whcr.- li.- re- 
mained for the next two or three years. 

In September, ISSO, Mr. Warner moved to I una 
wanda, and became a.ssociated with Thomas M. 
('ha|)man in the jHiblication of the Tonawanda 
Hi-ialJ. He had already had consider- 
able ex|)erience in newsjaper work, serv- 
ing at first as a reporter on the Detroit 
Free /'ress, and later as state eiiitor ol 
that well-known journal, at the same 
time furnishing reportorial correspond 
ence from the several cities of Michigan. 
He was therefore well (|ualified by train 
ing as well as by natural ability for the 
new work which he undertook in Tona- 
wanda, and which he carried on for sev - 
enteen years with much success. In the 
fall of 1H!»7 he sold his interest in the 
//<•/-<;/</ to Mr. Chapman, the senior |)art- 
ner ; and established the daily, semi- 
weekly, and weekly Arsons in the "'Twin 
Cities" of the Tonawandas. For the 
conduct of this enterjjrise he formed a 
lartnership with Frank 1'. Hulette, for 
many years the successful editor of the 
ll'vomi'fix Ci'U'ify Lfiii/t-rof Arcade, N. V'.. 
ami widely known as the secretary of the 
New York State Democratic Editorial 
Association. The new jiaper is the only 
one in its territory devoted to the inter- 
ests of the Democratii- jarty ; and as 
Messrs. Warner and Hulette are both 
ardent sup|)orters of that ijarty, and 
newspajier men of trained ability, the 
success of the venture need not be re- 
garded as doubtful. 

During his residence in Tonawanda 
Mr. Warner has become well and favor- 
ably known in both public and private life. In 
ItSHC he was appointed clerk of the village of North 
Tonawanda, and held the office continuously imtil 
the adojition of the city charter in .\pril, \W7, 



when he was unanimously chosen the first city 
clerk. He is a .Mason, and holds the office of I'ast 
Master in Tonawanda I^ge, No. 247, F. it A. M., 
and that of High I'ricst in 'Tonawanda Cha|)ter, No. 
2"H, R. A. M. He is a memlicr of Si Mark's 
Kpi.sro|ial Church. 

/' /■: A' .V O X.t I. C II R O N OI.O C. J — Thom.u 
Fuj^dif Warn ft 7vas horn at Orltam, X. )'.. March 
'3.i, lS.i4 ; was ediualfd in common ichooh ; learned 
the firinlcr' s Inule ami uuirkfJ al the same in •■arioui 
cities, ],Hi!0-77 : marrieil Florence Kliuilelh llana- 
forJ of Jersey City, X. J., Seflemher IS, IS70 ; was 
warden of the Jersey City Charity Hospital, IS77-SO ; 
was one of the />ii/>lishers of the Tonawanda t A'. )'. > 
•'Herald," ISSO-ftT ; has heen clerk of /> 
and city of Xorth Tomncanda since ISSii ; , 
the Tonawanda ".-/r^v/i" in October, IS07. 




rmtM.iS ECCESF. W ARSE. ft 

Irrtno Emmet lOatcrs. <a^hle^ of the c iti 

/cii^' iLiiilv ni biiiV.ilii. Ii.i> li.id an im|>ortant |iart of 
late years in the i ommercial activities of the <Jucen 
City : anil, though com|«aratively a newcomer there. 



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has done much to further its j^rosperity. His public- 
spirited zeal has been unflagging, and he is widely 
known in business circles as a man of unusual energy 
and sagacity. 

Mr. Waters is a native of Herkimer county, New- 
York, and a large part of his life thus far has been 



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IRVING EMMRT WATERS 

spent there. Born in Little Falls about fifty years 
ago, he received his education in the common schools 
and academy of that pla( e, and at the age of seven- 
teen began to earn his own living. His first jjosi- 
tion was with the American Express Co., where he 
remained four years. He then secured a situation 
as clerk in the Herkimer County National Bank, 
where he gained his first insight into the manage- 
ment of a financial institution. .Vfter several years 
in this position he went to Buffalo in July, 1873, as 
teller in the Bank of Commerce, which liad just been 
organized. 

Banking was to be Mr. Waters's life-work, and 
Buffalo the scene of his success as a banker ; but he 
did not stay long in the city at that time, returning 



to Little Falls in May, 1876, and engaging in busi- 
ness there for the next four years. This was quite 
long enough to convince him that his talents were 
better suited to a financial than a mercantile career ; 
and accordingly, in 1880, he again entered the 
employ of the Herkimer County National Bank, this 
time as general bookkeeper. He re- 
mained in this position for ten years, 
becoming thoroughly familiar as time 
went on with the .science of banking, 
and gaining experience that has been 
invaluable to him since. 

In 1890 the Citizens' Bank of Buffalo 
was organized ; and Mr. Waters's friends 
in that city, who had recognized his 
ability during his short connection with 
the Bank of Commerce fifteen years be- 
fore, suggested to the board of directors 
that the post of cashier of the new insti- 
tution be tendered to him. The offer 
was made and accepted, and from the 
time the Ijank first opened its doors Mr. 
Waters has filled that responsible posi- 
tion. Under his energetic and efficient 
management the new institution pros- 
pered from the beginning, and soon be- 
came recognized as one of the solid 
4. i financial concerns of the city. In the 
I conduct of its affairs Mr. Waters for the 
first time had an o|)portunity to exercise 
his talents as a financier, and the high 
standing that it has attained shows how 
i I well he has availed himself of that oppor- 
.,^^^■1 tunity. The Citizens' Bank has been 
J^^H in existence only seven years, and dur- 
^^^^^^ ing much of that time the financial con- 
dition of the country has been far from 
])rosperous ; furthermore, it is one of the 
smaller institutions of the city, having a 
capital of only §100,000. In spite of these facts it 
occupies a foremost position in the financial world, 
and is deemed one of the strongest institutions of 
its size in the country. 

Mr. Waters has had the best interests of Buffalo 
closely at heart ever since he took up his residence 
there, and has had a part in many enterprises that 
have been productive of good to the city. He has 
been very successfiil in attracting outside capital 
thither, and thus |)romoting business activity. He 
was one of the organizers of the Lenox Corporation, 
that completed in 1H!)7 the Lenox apartment house, a 
large and elegant structure on North street near Dela- 
ware avenue, that compares favorably with the finest 
buildings of its class in any city in the United States. 



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All his best ener^jies Mr. Waters devotes to busi- 
ness, spending,' little time in politiis or mm iety mat- 
ters. He is a member, however, of the HiifTalo 
Orpheus. 

PERSONAL ClfR ONOL O G y—/ni»x Emmfl 
Waters was l>orn at Little Falls, A'. J '. , Aui;iist IS, 
IS^a ; UHis eiliuateJ at Little Falls Academy; was 
emphyeilin van'oits capacities in Little Falls, lflUS-7.i ; 
manied Eliza I. Waterman of Little Falls February 
J,, lS7-'> ; was teller of the Liank of Commerce, Jiiif- 
falo, ]S7S-70 ; enxaxed in I'l/siness in L.ittle L'alls, 
1S7(>-S() ; 7i'as bookkeeper of the Herkimer Countv 
Xational Bank of LJttle Falls, 1SS0-.W .■ lias been 
cashier of the Citizens' Bank, Buffalo, since lSf>0. 



aibCrt 3. lUllObt IS well known in both 
business and social circles in Huflalo, where he has 
lived since childhood. He is descended 
from good old Knglish stock that settletl 
in the .\meri(an colonies in early days, 
the most illustrious member of the fam- 
ily being Silas Wright of Canton, N. Y. — 
governor, congres.sman. United States 
senator, and an able statesman in the 
days of Clinton, Clay, and Webster. 

.Mr. Wright was born in Oswego, 
N. v., where his father, .Mfred \'. 
Wright, also a native of the place, car- 
rietl on a large business in canal Irans- 
|>ortation. When he was eight years old 
his father moved to Huffalo, and the boy 
began his etlucation there, .\fter sjiend- 
ing about two years in Public School 
No. 14 he pre|jared for college in the 
Buffalo Classical School under I'rofessor 
Horace Hriggs, and then took a si ienlifrc 
course at Wesleyan Cniversitv. .Midille- 
town, C'onn. 

Returning to ISulTalo in 1.H7.S in his 
twentieth year, Mr. Wright was fortu 
nate enough to fnid an excellent o|>ening 
ready for him. The finn of I're.ston iV 
Wright, established by his father a 
do/en years before for the handling ami 
transfer of grain, had met with marke<l 
and continuous success ; and the yoimg 
man at once entered their office, and .set 
himself to master the intricacies of the 
busine.ss. Two years later Nfr. Preston 
wxs compelletl by ill health to give up 
active busine.ss, and the firm of .\. I'. Wright \- Son was 
organized, with Albert J. Wright as the junior |iarlner. 

The new firm soon became one of the most widely 
known in the country ; and the long e\|)ericnce of 



the father and the enterprising and energetic spirit 
of the son were alike factors in its rcnuirkablc suc- 
cess. In the first year the en- anount of 
.'{.■[,(10(1, (KM) bushels of grain wa-. by them 
during the season of navigation, .\iterten yesirs of 
uninternipted .success the finn was dis.solved in IH'.HI, 
and since that time Mr. Wright has carried on alone 
a liiisiness as lianker an<l broker in grain and sIcm k>. 
His earlier e\|ierience as a grain men ham has been 
of value to him in this new enterpri.se, and he has 
met with the sii< . >•-. i.. «hich his unijuestioned abil- 
ity entitles him 

In 1NS4, when only twenty six years old, .Mr. 
Wright was eltv teil |iresident of the HufTalo .Mer- 
I hauls' Kxchange. He was the yoimgest man ever 
cho.sen for that res|>onsiblc |>osition, ami the fad 
is evidence of the high opinion of his powers 




MliERT I WKIi.lir 

entertained by the business men of Huffalo. After his 
retirement from the presiden< y of the as.sot iation he 
scr\-ed for several years as a trustee. He alMJ scr\e<l 
in 1S«4 as president of the Huffalo Hoard of Trade 



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He was for a time trustee of the Buffalo Library, and 
was a member of the board at the time the money was 
raised for the erection of the present library building. 
Mr. Wright is a prominent member of several 
exclusive clubs in Buffalo and elsewhere. He was 
one of the incorijorators of the Country Club Oi 
Buffalo in 188!), and is still a governor of the ii *i- 
tution. He is also a governor of the Buffalo Chm, 
and belongs to the Kllicott and Yacht clul .; of Buf- 
falo and the Chicago Club of Chicago. 



PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY— Albert J. 
Wriglit was born at Osiuego, N. Y., August 2^., 
1858 ; was educated in Buffalo schools and IVeslcyan 
University, Middletown, Conn.; married Gertrude 
Bent of MiddletoKm September 25, 1878 ; engaged 
in the grain commission business in Buffalo, 1878—00 ,- 
7iias president of the Merchants' li.xchange and the 
Board of Trade of Buffalo in 188 Jf ; has canied on 
a banking and brokerage business in Buffalo since 
1890. 






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